How To: CHARACTER DESiGN

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Mii Customization Example:
Mii Look-Alike Example:
Monster High Example: Invisi Billy
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OCs can be found here ! ↓

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Chapters:

0:00 Intro
0:30 2 Methods of Design
1:20 Personality Traits
2:06 Shapes
3:10 Colors
6:07 Paddi and Leech Example
8:10 Starting From Scratch
9:01 Using Visual Reference
9:32 Taka and Hollee Example
10:40 Jing Example
11:07 Using Conceptual Reference
12:01 Readability
14:02 Recognizability
16:20 Why Character Design is Important
16:47 Recap

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[zuephoria]

i love how you sound like your art style

[mrhalfsaid]

I just want to note on that whole colour thing. You can use warm blues and purples and cold reds and yellows. Colour is *extremely* context sensitive and adaptive.

[vwnmyx]

I'm absolutely obsessed with character design, I've been an artist for a while now ( I think like 7 years now ) and it makes me so happy to talk or listen to someone talk about it. Btw, your style is sour but in a candy way, it definitely has a crunch to it. 100/10 I love this content

[niilo]

Exaggerating certain traits is one of my favorite things to do in character design! Big, pointy eyelashes, big ass goggles, humanly-impossible-to-achieve ahoge with a star on the end, and all that.. I think these can make a character more memorable, especially for more cartoony art styles. <:3c

[BedrottingArtist]

ART EATEN
LEFT NO CRUMBS
THANKS FOR THE FOOD
IT WAS DELICIOUS
I AINT SHARING

[EzraNexus]

I have a lot of ocs and been drawing for literally half of my life, and this video made me dive into their lore and make their design more unique and memorable, thank you

[lacerationally]

15:13 tmnt 2012, my beloved... current favorite show from my childhood..

[archiviss]

Your artstyle looks like it would be the cover art for a rock band or traded during a concert. idk. I love it, it tickles my brain.

[YesIAmTheCreatorOfTG]

tip: if your going for a horror style, dont use any character design tips, just get high and start designing

[eduardotaveras]

Personally, i like the ''star from a look alike'' method, is practical, it give you the chance for give to your character your own touch, and is helpful to give him to the character a similar personality/history.

I loved your video, I really like it and I would like to put more effort into the design of my characters, so I will do my part to improve more and more, especially if I want to get used to digital drawing. Thank you very much, my friend.

[tronsonic]

Another cool thing about character design is that you can actually use it to subvert expectations. I can't remember which anime it was, however there was one character that had a round and childlike appearance, who seemed kind at first, but then the story revealed that they were actually a villain, and by using that rounder character build, it made the twist all the more impactful.
You can also use changes of clothing to signify shifts in a character's personality if you want to get super in depth. A character with a big oversized coat could be used to portray a shy character, however after that character goes through an arc, you could portray them wearing much lighter, more casual clothes to signify their shift from being shy to being much more open.

[crittercatt]

I literally gasped from how excited i was when i saw you made a new post!! Love your style and tutorials, also rad new pngtuber

[Imagination]

I wanna come back to character designing cause I have a bunch of OCs chilling in my head and would love to draw them but haven't due to some complications of my art journey. I'm glad this video got recommended to me and it is one of the best I've seen out there on character design. Thank you sm !

[Nebulous]

My method is basically to just sketch random stuff until I find a cool design.

[Mnus_p]

hollys hair reminds me of cyn from md! also i love how much your artstyle reminds me of invader zim!
EDIT: finally someone else that knows about NSR!!

[pipipupu]

i cant agree more with the advice you gave in this video!! and your art is so awesome im completely won over lmao

[SprinkledCactus]

I love the art style! It's giving invader zim

[IAmBored]

Thanks for advice. There were some character design videos but I enjoyed our help on character design. I appreciate the process of making them chibis or review them from a quick glance. A character design silhouette is imporrant so I am glad its being explained here. So here is my main character for a series I made. Let me explain.

Ironoe is the main protagonist of my story project which is magical girl based. She is in her civilian form and here is her outfit most of the time. Her name is Ironoe. So her design conveys a cutesy appearance as she has a chubby appearance. She has an oval circular shape head, noodle limbs and uses rectangles and blocky shapes.

Ironoe wears a salmon pink red cardigan underneath a white shirt with a button on, a bun tied with a blue scrunchie, socks, and dark brown loafers to compliment her dark brown hair. Because her hair and shoes are dark brown the main focus of Ironoe is her outfit. She has blemish cheeks similar to Ochako from My Hero Academia. And she has a heart symbol on the back of her cardigan. Revealing a bubbly personality right? Well...kind of.

Ironoe's design has key elements that convey a side to her. Her hair bun is messy as if she hastily put it on. Showing a bumpy heart shaped bun. Her socks are misplaced as one of them is more longer than the other and wears messy socks. As for her cheeks its actually make up to hide her acne. Her cardigan heart logo has a wrapped up heart. Her design is supposed to be a happy go lucky since magical girls in media are lucky people. However the issue is that these keypoints indicate perhaps she's pretending to be cheery, and moreso revealing she's a tired, anti social and lonely person.

Other than that thanks for your tips on silhouette. I feel most series need to make a character's silhouette pop out so I decides to focus more on her top bun shape and the shape of her cardigan.

[AhinsaPrincess]

I FEEL LIKE FIORE FROM DISVEN AFTER SHE GOT IN THE FINALS OF S1, JUST THAT EXACT FEELING. 2 DAYS AGO? WHAAT

[SevDoesMusic]

Dude you're art style is SO good and the tips in this video are great. just before watching this, I was trying to draw a character but her design was so unreadable, but this video really helped me figure it all out. Thanks!