How I Start Designing a New Character | Part 1 My Character Design Process

I am so excited to be making this series on my character design process! This is the first part in this five video series where I show y’all how I start a character design. I am experimenting with a new video format of adding more graphics, so let me know what y’all think! 😎✨

0:00 Series Breakdown
1:37 Firstest Worstest Sketch
4:13 Silhouettes ✨
7:42 Round 2!
10:22 2 for 1!

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[genevievedisemelo]

yknow i hardly ever see human unicorns outside of the mlp fandom!

[nah]

A character that switches between offense and defense like this could make for an interesting gameplay experience

[BritaLee]

The section on silhouettes was SO helpful! It stops the brain from getting too zoned in on details too early in the design process.
Also I busted a gut laughing at the illustrated version of you dropping into oblivion with a cute little "whee" sound bit

[apophisca]

1:33 "Your bad character design"


dang, I felt that sentence of yours girl.

[argo]

Going down the concept artist rabbit hole and I’m so glad to see your series thus far. It’s great to see your process for ideation and realization. Thank you for sharing this!

[josephsandman]

Thanks for posting these videos. It's good to see how new people to the art industry are navigating the environment as it's an ever changing one and things that worked for someone 10 years ago may not be the case anymore...so keep it up and best of luck.

[srowwww]

Man this was so insightful that i feel extra inspired to continue this journey. Great video, im actually amazed how you don't have more recognition

[keona]

4:35 I'm not finished the video yet but I got super excited here bc so far its EXACTLY what I do!! Makes me feel like I'm on the right track😳

[Thesamurai]

Broooo, this series is underrated af! Thank you for this! c:

[WelcomeToEdenwick]

LOVED this video, it was supr helpful and helping me try and figure out my process for designing characters. looking forward to the rest of the parts and other videos you make.

[UzualDaniel]

As a total newbie, silhouette seems like a great way to create something without getting frustrated that nothing looks cool when trying to build something

[lucieth]

This'll be fun!
I can already tell you'll blow up on youtube, so sub-1000 subscriber congratulations on youtube success 😂I'll definitely be looking out for the next one in the series.

[CosmicNova]

I blame you for my horrible character design! (Jk) this was a great video and it helped me with character design for a story I’m (trying) to make

[MrGiraeff]

hi, that is so awesome and helpful thank you!!

[SmiileySmiiles]

I just watched like 1 minute and I think this series will be so useful already

[SLTY]

dawg this was the exact video i was looking for

[Purekamot]

Million Thanks for sharing. Just rewatched it to try your method to design my own character. ❤ will watch the remaining parts of this tutorial. 😊

[Docrjae]

amazing work Janelle enjoyed the lesson💯🙏

[thesketchartist]

This is exactly what I needed thank you

[Kalilair]

This was so cool and interesting!! I hope you end up making lots of tutorials!