Well, I'll begin softly.
I made a demo of Scarlet Clockwork, with Ren'py, and I need some feedbacks before resuming it.
The plot of Scarlet Clockwork is pretty simple: you are playing as a young girl, coming from somewhere, and reaching the SDM.
Since the story is already written, maybe you know how it will end. If this it is, then please don't spoil the story.
Anyway, as you can notice, I'm not using any painting background (because my drawings sucks), and I'm not using skins for characters.
Well, considering there's only two characters for now, I can't really draw something good for them.
For the other characters, I plan to use Alphes' art. Dunno if it's legal (I guess it's not), but I don't really have any other alternative.
The backgrounds are from the web, or from my own researches. I shoot with a digital camera, and I re size after that.
You may notice lots of typos, I'm actually trying to erase them, while keeping a strange structure.
Here is the link.TL; DR: This humble writefag is doing his best, but he's lacking in experience, skills, manpower, and time.