Character design tips from a $90 class

Okku-sensei class will teach you how to plan, design and create unique character concept art. Besides, you get to learn various art fundamentals such as lighting, composition and anatomy as well.

0:00 Introduction
1:43 Planning a character concept
5:05 Designing a character concept
8:20 Creating an awakened form illustration

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[dodonodens]

I don’t plan to work as an concept artist. I draw concept stuff for myself, and I really enjoy making stuff for my fan fictions feel alive and real, and it’s fun.

[PsyArtkitech]

Woa.. I've been doing A Vtuber and Character Designs commission for the past few months and all of them are satisfied without revision I learn a lot here to improve more. THANK YOU SENPAI!! gonna check this out :3

[marethyu]

I have purchased her class before this video dropped and I'm going through it atm. Ngl I'm loving the process so far

[tuvshinbayarmandakh]

Me before watching this video: Character design goes brrr.

Me after watching this video: Character design goes brrr.

[bedivere]

The part that is always the hardest for me is the posing. I have anatomy knowledge and also perspective but I just have a lot of trouble when it comes to creating good looking, natural, and dynamic poses.

[thepokekid]

I wanted to hate these ideas, but they are all good ideas. The only thing that I thought was forgotten to be mentioned is you likely have to know what the world or universe looks like if you want your characters to fit into whatever they are fitting into or whatever you want to make. Personally I think this can be an important factor that can separate your art from looking out of place in whatever you have around it, or even actually bleeding together with too much with things you like or things you love when you don't necessarily want them to.

Still, I think a good reason that these tips are great that wasn't as clearly explained is that it also helps to fight artist block.

[shunei_haruma]

Thank you for this. I'm not an artist, but cute character design is one of my favorite things about anime. I should pay more attention on how different character poses reflect different personalities.

[nirawolfzo]

The jeanne examples took me off guard - a man of culture.

[lilacberrym]

I looked up the Shanks and Gildarts thing 0:11 and it says that Hiro Mashima (creator of Gildarts in Fairy Tail) worked as an assistant for Eiichiro Oda (creator of Shanks in One Piece) in the past and created Gildarts as a way to say thank you.

Edit: added time stamp.

[ridsy]

I love your videos the genius of having a simple character animation on loop to give the videos life love it

[mikoartz]

eeeeyup, knew all these b4, i useally try to make my characters faces unique by giving them different eyes shapes and if needed I'll add somthing on the face like idk a tear drop on the right cheek or a scar, or face paint or mark, then i focus on the hair style as the main base of thr silhouette and personality, i focus mostly on the hair and face, rather then clothing, .. well i focus oncthe clothing but i put more effort on the upper body more, bc 1: gotta make sure ur character looks like them selves no matter the clothing style, and 2: ..well make sure u can change the hair style and still be reconizable

if i do focus on the clothing useally bc its equally as important to express the more character like a whrist band hiding somthing underneath, i would make that whrist uniaue somthing recognizable even if the character not wearing when u see the whrist band u say "HEY THATS [character] WHRISTBAND" or a school uniform

[milkbread]

i love how straight forward and detailed you are thank you!

[emiliaandrzejewska]

Thank you for the video! It seems like class will give me tips I was looking for, so might sign in soon.

[helloIisperson]

The very beginning gave me an idea- what if you made just a basic character design that's somewhat recognizable, like- somewhat on the nose, but not an everyman and actually a real character but just happens to look like *blank* celebrity or character ect

[El_IsTired]

I really enjoyed this video, thank you

[Idontknowwhoiam]

I got so excited when he said character profile

[neolordie]

no mention of shape design, big/medium/small, silhouette, value or color :c

[pykegod]

I always watched your videos and I improve by alot thank you for your efforts

[lxentica]

Thank you this is helpful it's taken me forever to create my OC because I had no idea where and how to start 😂😭😭

[Strongbonds]

Your advises inspiring me to draw better