Sami new design [?]

[Kosheh]

The turtle neck covers her neck, so she can't have a collar.

no hard feelings but you are quite dense
obviously you're going to have to change the turtleneck if you put something on her neck
protip: v-necks are pretty feminine

I'm not going to promote facial/body piercing. Freckles never look good on characters, facial piercings look even worse. You guys better be joking, because is there anything unusual about a character drawn like these having a plain face, no? I mean it's hard for me to think of a many Japanese video game characters who don't have plain faces.
Like Suguri http://media.ign.com/games/image/object/...t_160w.jpg
Or any Touhou character.

you're thinking anime characters
anime: naruto characters, kid from hitman reborn, d-grayman protagonist
vidya: pretty much any sonic character, mario characters, parappa the rapper

nonetheless most characters have some detail on their head and/or hair (goku, naruto, ichigo) who have plain faces that makes them look extremely unique

But note that Touhou characters have an extremely eccentric design that makes them unique, which is what your characters lack.


Here I've got an easy way to do this
Look at Klonoa. What makes him unique? It's not just the red outfit (although it does suit him) - it's the unique marks on his hat; his facial features, his exaggerated ears. And like Koki and Sami, he's a dog as well.
and pardon the awkward example, but let me put it this way:

Strip Klonoa naked, or even Ash, Misty, Patchouli Knowledge, any major Naruto character, Mickey Mouse or Sonic
There are things about these characters which make them unique to the player/viewer and hence recognizable as said character, even without clothing or most accessories

here's an exercise
- Draw koki and sami naked
by that i don't mean draw them anatomically accurate, just draw them without any details on their lower body (Clothing, shoes). Nipples etc. aren't needed - you're going to draw the clothes back on eventually
- Add things onto the character that make them look unique. Make sure it's not something under the clothes (i.e. scar on chest), make it something the player would see (dog nose, collar). Keep in mind the bare areas the player will see on the character currently are the head, neck, hands and tail.
- Draw the clothes back on. Have some liberties while doing so - try drawing Koki with short sleeves, etc. If they look way too accessorized, take some things off that they don't need.

hopefully that's gonna make the duo have some extra needed detail :V



also

Spoiler

koki is wearing what saijee wears in his youtube videos/saijee has a "koki outfit" lol
vupersnork how did you not catch this