VN-style Sprites-WL!Braces+Necktie

Now, now, I bet you're thinking 'gigi makes a dating sim' but nah, that's not it.
See, a lot of the places I rp at have offsite containers on forums, or...I'm using tumblr. Places that actually really work good with having images inserted into the atmosphere. Sadly the forum venues I'm in is a lot of text walls and no icons. It's a little hard for me to read! So I'm sure someone else has a problem. (I'm not singling out anyone on this either, just to be clear, its a problem I've seen in multiple venues.)
And heck, applying this to ocs I plan on rping on tumblr someday, I'd be lost if I didn't have a way to quickly get icons together as I don't have a canon reference point and dont care for using faceclaims.

So I started experimenting with vn-style sprites with some of the psg characters, mostly the WL crew minus domino because they're fairly easy to deal with. Fairly. My methods for making clothing references actually lined up almost perfectly with how most VN sprite tutorials tell you how to make sprites, which made this go a lot smoother than I was anticipating. 
They're variable widths and 350px in height which is...bigger than i expect using icons at but it was the smallest i could get without testing my patience to color everything in again so I didn't have those awful transparency dot problems in photoshop.

Shown here are the actual bases (with a neutral/default expression) and a random sampler of expressions. There's a LOT more than this, this is just a showcase of various different assets. Braces has a total of 8 eye arrangements alone!!

psg by GAINAX/GEEKS
characters are mine
rp characters for the group DCWastelands, for personal use in the group