Weekly Art Tips #2- Keep it Simple

Please let me know how you like the episodes so far!

Classical images use (in order):
1893 Reconstruction of “The Alexander Mosaic” (original Roman, c.100BC)
Jean-Antoine Watteau, “The Embarkation for Cythera” (1717)
Salvador Dali, “Old couple or musician" (1930)

Outro music: Little Lily Swing by Tri-Tachyon

This video is used under an Attribution 4.0 license as a derivative work of "Little Lilly Swing" by Tri-Tachyon.

[rinferno]

A cat maid serial killer actually sounds kinda interesting lmao.

[kingolly]

3:56 okay but get this: A cat-eared person runs a maid cafe in Japan to help earn money for their workers and other less fortunate people. Unfortunately, maid cafes attract not-so-good attention and even some people are working at the maid cafe to get money easy. This cat person decides that they'll just kill off all of the bad people to go and make sure that their cafe doesn't get a bad reputation and that the poor people will get their money. It starts off as a simple thing to eliminate a very bad/perverted person who was harassing the maids at the cafe, but soon the cat-eared person gets some sense of power knowing that they can just kill off everyone they don't like. They soon turn into a serial killer by night and a cafe owner/maid by day. I just came up with this on the spot so it needs a lot more development, but now I kind of really want to make an OC of such a character if that's okay--

[louise]

3:55
Seems interesting though
The wizard looks odd but this one looks pretty cool

[sketchman]

I always believed that trying to simplify a character's look was a virtue and I do my best as an artist to draw those without going overboard on details. 📝

[liger_error]

I've given my character a poofy scarf, boots, and an occasional beanie to signify that he lives in the cold

[MrAwsomeness]

I am a firm believer of simplicity and how everything works better when it's all kept simple. Less is more, and simplicity is not laziness — contrary to what some might believe.

[omlette]

Even though this video is old, it has a lot of great points, thank you

[caramelisedmilk]

This helped a lot! Thanks for the tips!

[synflwr]

My oc Uzi (Yuri) has pink hair and red contacts. She was actually living in a ghetto area for a bit and got it so she could fit in. She, well, made a lot of mistakes while she was there. One day, she had been given a message by a stranger to go to this school. It was strange, but she trusted it. She ended up finding secrets through the cheer team about the schools magic. They're now a team who fight evil secretly, away from view of the rest of the school.

What do you think of her background? I rushed over it a bit.

[strangestar]

My oc is a white neko killer... I feel a little dumb now ;-; but I do have a reason for that so... it's fine I guess

[chairokoqueens]

Actually, thanks.
This really can work for my animations now that I was struggling with the backgrounds, thanks a bunch! :D

[andromedasignage]

In your opinion, what do you think is too simple or is just overdone design-wise?

[elisaagarrado]

Ok but my OC has purple cuz it’s my fav color T-T I am a skittle maker