Uniform Concept Art - Whitewake (Patreon)

The majority of the story I have planned takes place within Wavebreak (the organisation tasked with fighting the phenomenon called “the Whitewake”) as well as its training academy WBA, so figuring out the uniforms of both the students and the employees was really important for me to get down first. The design choices here are going to inform most of the clothing characters will be wearing for the story after all.

The employees uniforms are only for the Agent Department of Wavebreak since Sebastian and Mars are agents and they’re the main focus at the moment. Really wanted to get them down pat as a first priority. There are two other departments in Wavebreak, Research and Communications which, when combined, are still smaller than the Agent department.

I wanted to approach this design process with a couple things in mind:

Redrawability: designs couldn’t have too many details as it would get old very quickly to draw them over and over again in comic format

Distinction: there needed to be a clear visual difference between student uniforms and agent uniforms while it still being clear they belonged to the same institution. I tried to convey that with a more sporty vibe for the school uniforms, and a more business-y vibe for the agent uniforms.

Personalisation: I wanted the uniforms for both students and agents to be enough of a blank slate that I could also show off character traits and personalities based on how they wear separate pieces. For example: Sebastian is always buttoned up while Mars has a looser, more relaxed fit but they’re clearly still wearing the same clothes.

I’m pretty happy with how these turned out but as always, things are bound to get tweaked the more I work on this project :P that’s all for Gira’s design diary for now though! Thanks for reading!