How To Make Character TURNAROUNDS and Sheets!

Stay tuned for a fun year-end wrap up towards the end!

Whether you’re creating characters that only you will use for personal work, or especially if you’re creating a character that will be handed off to someone else, it’s usually not enough to create a single drawing or key pose and be on your way. Creating turnarounds or character sheets is a great way to establish things about your character thoroughly, and figure out certain ambiguous things about them before you put them into use. Even so, you may have struggled in the past with turning a character around, let’s help you out with that and figure out a cool way to present the fuller picture of our characters.

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[comicalsocks]

I've been looking for this for the LONGEST TIME

[mattdoesstuff]

Turnaround




Every now and then I get a little bit lonely and you're never coming 'round

[Hikaru_SR-Omega]

Literally everyone is saying how you posted this exactly when they needed this... Honestly, I'm one of them. I've been having trouble drawing orthographs, and--well, here we are.

[jjstarA]

Maybe if Biko was animated, then his hat could leave an impression for a second or two, but in a comic or illustration, his head would be stuck like that for however long you stare at it...

Anyway, Happy New Year!

[a.j.morrow]

Biko is such a cool character. I love the idea behind him as well as his design.

[creacher]

This is crazy helpful for me because I was just about to start a commission for a reference sheet for my friend’s character! Your art’s amazing dude and I’m glad your channel has an interesting, easy to understand grip on the fundamentals of character design! Wish I found you sooner >_<

[BushidoMauve]

I've been looking for this exact thing for years. Its crazy this is the first video i found on it

[playertoo]

jeez this is so helpful. thanks brookes!

[toadboydude]

Dude, how'd you make this *EXACTLY* when everyone needed it!?

[matiasnl]

This is such a helpful video! I love it. It’s reminiscent of your past videos because they’re all super helpful too! What I’m saying is anybody reading this who hasn’t seen your other videos should go do that

[sabersquid]

It has been a really great year, you’re one of the most underrated art channels out there. I wish you the best for next year!

[PilferpupCartoons]

LOL! "I'm taking the rest of the year off." -rip 2019

[dissonanceparadiddle]

I'm excited, it's time to make this so I stop drawing so inconstancy

[SirMasi]

Congrats on another great year! Finishing Parcel was a great achievement. And your re-envisioning of Crash's whole island was fantastic. Best wishes for 2020! 😀

[GenjitDiamond]

I've found your channel recently in my reccomendations from Youtube, and I'm happy that Youtube reccomended your channel for me. I like drawing as a hobby, but thanks for these videos with explaining stuff related to character design, they're helping me a lot!

[nicoleyap]

I really like this. I really want to do character design. I’m trying to still learn how to properly turn a character but I also want to know how to color and shade well using different brushes. Can you do a tutorial on how you color when color a character?

[ArtistOdysseyMaster]

This is exactly what I needed, because I kept having trouble.

[Artofizanagi]

Dude this is so helpful. I struggle with this so much and your video actually helps.

[AZUREPHOENIX]

Hey Brookes, really appreciate this vid in particular, it's very informative and I look forward to making some myself.

[Michael]

What a fantastic and helpful video, definitely going to put this to use for some reference sheets I’ve been meaning to do for so long. Brookes, it’s been such a fantastic year of learning thanks to your content. I wish you the absolute best in 2020