BONUS CONTENT: Sketchbook: Ulon Dosi Clothes
The Ulon Dosi clothes were a fun design challenge since I had to work with the constraints of the fur capes and try to make clothing that would believably work with those bodies. I always planned for the race to be fairly low tech, so early on I settled on pretty basic leather hide tunics and wraps. I did try a couple other looks in the first few sketches but they definitely looked a bit too fancy for me, so they were quickly abandoned. I think the rough edges and visible stitching really pulled together the hand-made, frontier look I was going for.
In the cases of the body-crossing wraps, the idea is that the clothing wraps around the neck and down the chest, continues around the back of the waist (underneath the fur cape), and then ties in the front. Basically, I wanted the clothing to fit the body while still leaving the fur cape clear to hang in the back.
Did you at some point consider to ‘remove’ the capes?
Not really. I stumbled upon the cape idea fairly early, and it seemed like such a distinctive look that I had never seen before, that I really wanted to go with it. And it seemed like something that would be somewhat believable physiologically, so I stuck with it from the get go.