Hey art nerds we are going to be talking about character design.

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creating an entire character from scratch human or otherwise takes a
lot of creative energy. Every artist has their own creative process, so
there is no right way to create a character, but typically the character
design process for each artist begins at the same place before even
putting a pencil to paper or pen to tablet. A character designer should
start with the most important step of all research. It can be helpful to
try and deconstruct why certain characters and their characteristics
work and why some don't study other characters and think about what
makes them so successful and what in particular you like about them
their personality, their style choice or maybe you just really dig their
hair. You need to take a deep look into your character.'s personality in
order to develop a visual idea of its physical features? So one big
influencer for your whole design is who your character is aimed at
what group of people is. Your character intended for This group is
referred to as your target audience Think about the age of your
intended audience. For example, characters aimed at young children
are typically designed around basic shapes and bright colors be sure
to also take a close look at your audience.'s gender, personality or
subcultures that they may be a part of whether you're creating a llama
robot or monster you can guarantee there are going to be a hundred
other similar creations out there. Your character needs to be strong and
interesting in a visual sense to get people's attention even its
silhouette needs to be striking. So what special trait does your
character possess do they have any usual or unusual quirks Maybe
some cool prop hat or weapon. They seem to always carry around or
that illustrates some aspect of their being exaggerating the defining
features of your character will help it appear larger than life
exaggerated features will also help viewers identify the character's key
qualities is your character supposed to be super fast, curious smart
evil kind strong, what can you do to exaggerate or accentuate These
features Your character possesses colors can also communicate a
character's personality typically dark colors, such as black purples and
grays depict baddies and malevolent intentions light colors on the
other hand, such as white, blues pinks and yellows express innocence
good and purity by changing only the color you can change how your
character is perceived by others interesting looks alone do not
necessarily make for a good character Its personality is key as well. A
character's personality can be revealed through animations or even as
simply as how he or she carries themselves. While some characters
appear to be confident, standing tall and relaxed, while others may
appear very timid with shoulders ever so slightly slouched keeping
their arms close and eyes, avoiding contact with all others. The
personality of your character doesn't have to be particularly agreeable,
but it does need to be interesting. Unless your character is
purposefully dull the basic shapes you use to construct your character
can contribute to its perceived personality. If you want to learn more
about this I have a whole video that goes into shape language so be
sure to check it out Expression showing a character's range of
emotions and depicting its ups and downs will further flesh out your
character depending on its personality. A figure's emotions might be
muted and wry or explosive and wildly exaggerated subtle alterations
in the shape of your character's eyes mouth even eyebrows can
change its expression dramatically as old, saying goes the eyes
speak louder than the mouth and emotions can be seen around the
eyes, even with only being able to see the eyes of each of these
characters. I bet you can get a pretty close guess as to which emotion
he or she may be expressing the driving force behind a character's
personality is what he or she wants to achieve. Often the
incompleteness or flaws in a character are what make them
interesting and to help out figure that out your character needs a
backstory developing its backstory for your character is important,
especially if you're planning for the character to exist within comics or
animations where does your character come from? How did it come
to exist? What lifechanging events has has experienced having
answers to these questions are going to help back up the solidity and
subsequent belief in your character. Sometimes telling of a character's
backstory can be more interesting than the characters present
adventures, the deeper you go the more real your character will be
relationships hobbies bad habits routines things that you collect the
things they hate what home is like what they wish to accomplish. The
list is endless. Even when you think you're nearing the end of your
character's design question each element of your creation, especially
Things such as its facial features, the slightest alteration can have a
great effect on how your character is perceived things like head
shape hairstyle facial features that eyes, ears, nose mouths, even the
fit of your jeans on your character says something about their
personality or their mission Baggy lazy, comfortable athletic Jeans got
some relaxed, stable and more reliable jeans. He got those stylish and
creative skinny jeans okay so there's so many options so please pay
attention to every single detail. The idea of character design is to go on
a creative dive into the unknown and from that abyss pull out the best
design that matches the character description. Great and memorable
characters come as a result of the time and creative energy put into
making them by character designers and think about this every single
Character You've ever seen on Tv or played in a video game