finally able to post my piece for @rpzinemaker
i had sm fun working with the artists and staff of this zine
they made it a very pleasurable first zine for me :))
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soooo i redesigned sachiko-san cuz her design was NOT cutting it for me<3 below is my thought process behind it :3
before anything i’d like to clarify that this is anything but a professional design analysis or smth like this was just for fun 😋.
the drawing was super rushed and on a whim cuz i just had a lot of thoughts in the moment that were interesting to me and i wanted to get down on a page. i’m far from a corpse party expert and only know the blood covered game lore LMAOO.
also this is in no way meant to shit on the og corpse party artists or writers, it’s just my personally opinions and takes! for funsies :3
anyway!! now with that out of the way!!
sachiko has always been such a bizarre character to me.
like, she’s the twist villain, she’s some little girl, she’s the victim, she’s the murderer, she’s from the 1940s but also from the 70s!?!!
she has such a convoluted story and generally vague motives and GRRRR it makes me a little frustrated because she’s really interesting, but her writing is confusing :(
but anyway, her character is not what i wanted to tackle today! i’m here about her design!
cuz yknow.
for being the all powerful main villain of the corpse party saga, her design always came off to me as very “generic evil ghost girl” to me.
apart from her frankly iconic red dress, she really doesn’t have that many defining features- and more importantly to me, her design doesn’t communicate her story against all!!
sachiko shinozaki was a timid girl in the 40s who was r*ped by her teacher and then fell to her death at 7 years old. how do i even begin to unpack that.
first i wanted to make her seem like she’s from the 40s, or at least nod to the fact. i knew i wanted to keep her hair long and straight like in the game, so i opted to use her outfit as a means of doing this.
since she died in school, i decided to look up some japanese uniforms from the 40s, and i ultimately decided to use this picture as reference because the neck of the uniform looked closest to sachiko’s dress. i also thought that the pin on the uniform could be a nice way to callback to her paper doll!
i wanted to also replace her long hair with pigtails like ayumi’s as a nod to them being related (i want them to look alike also, so sachiko here resembles my own ayumi design). the pigtails are shaped like scissor blades cuz i thought that would be fun :)
for her ghost form, i let her hair down like in the game, but i wanted to keep that scissor-like sharpness so i made her hair all spiky.
i twisted her limbs and messed up her left eye to indicate that fall damage (she did fall from the 3rd floor), but i kept that ripped look on her dress cuz slay. made her eyes read again to hint at the damage she took (feel like i might need to redo her face though cuz it doesn’t feel “i fell to my death”-y enough)
anyway that’s all lol 👍👍👍👍
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