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Published: 2011-03-03 04:31:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 13077; Favourites: 51; Downloads: 40
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this image is a bit dated...and I had male counterpart that was suppose to go along with it, but with my computer being dead I guess the girls only version will have to do. lets just pretend this is the cast for a show about an all girls high school. well call it "Fool School"To the un-Trained eye... I am sure this looks like a somewhat well balanced cast...so many girls! so many cliques! so many colors and styles!
but the reality is it's the same girl...just recolored and restyled over and over.
Underneath it all, they are the exact same girl.
They all have the same facial features, they are all the same weight and the same height... what's wrong with casts like this?...they are BORING!...dull, plain, run of the mill and forgettable!
not a cast I wanna make... THIS is like my worst nightmare!
This tutorial explains it a lot better than I can.
I was gonna post this huge, long winded rant on my art blog about it but for now I'll just post this short sweet version here. I'm too tired to get all into what I think so take from it what you will.
Fool School Girls © =Candy2021
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Comments: 60
it's amazing how the untrained eye can be fooled
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my thoughts exactly!
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I would like to say I wasn't fooled
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They are in the Description?
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That's why I'm working on drawing my characters with different body types.
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I'm working hard on fixing myself from doing this, you tutorial helped me a lot so far. <3
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I hope it helps you! I'm so happy to hear that!!!
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It's been helping a lot! ESPECIALLY the face one. <3
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WONDERFUL! can't wait to see how you do!
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I-its semi realism.
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I----wouldn't call it semi realism. but it's cute! and that's the important part!
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^^ I just really don't wanna make similar OC's all the time. ; ~ ;
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the style that their done in...has nothing to do with if a bunch of characters look the same- lots of styles do it.
I would call THAT style you just showed me?...high fashion anime. but don't get discouraged! it's TOTALLY possible to have different looking anime characters. cowboy be bop did it.
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True, very true. I guess I'll just need to keep poking at it until I get better. ^^
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You are much much nicer than many of the tutorial makers to me that just ignore me. You are a very great person.
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really?...I'm so sorry to hear that 8(... the whole reason people MAKE tutorials is to help others improve. why be rude on top of that?
well I want you to improve and I'm happy to help if you ever need advice!
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I think they're rude because the lose patience. :/
Thank you very much. ^^
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Probably. that's always sad to see.
no problem!
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It is truly sad; it makes me kinda sad to see it.
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I agree.
I've never wanted a style where everyone's faces are built of the same basics.
That's why all of my characters look like they come from different stories.
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I don't think thats a bad thing!!! better a bunch of characters who look like they are from different stories than a town that look entirely inbred.
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When I see things like this I think of old TV shows for girls that have a bunch of girls who look all the same AND have bland personalities 
My characters usually have different shapes and sizes and I do admit it's fun making them different, (but I do have trouble doing so with male characters).
although seeing how plain it is to have characters all look similar I think this can be redeemed if characters were given distinctive and unique personalities. Although I definitively agree with what your implying
~Rebecca
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thank you that was the point I was trying to make!
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I love these two clones drawings, and your explanation
I guess there are many of us who need to keep this in mind when designing characters!
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Nice one! When I draw characters I try to give them different body types and facial features, I suck of course; but by Jove I try (so does Speedball from "The Dragon Doctors", God bless him); I even tried to draw a group of monks once (you know, same clothes, no hair).
More artist should do it, girls specially are always alike (same with actresses)
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the fact that you know this is a problem and you wish to correct it ensures that you will learn many things that will benefit you in the long run as you learn!
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Great job explaining the importance of different face shapes! Thanks to you I am learning to do better with my characters and the faces I draw. I hope this inspires more people!
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Yeah know I saw them I thought they were different. 
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So very cool my friend. Wish I was as good with clothes as you are!
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Yeah, I can be occasionally accused of that problem, though I do tend to keep them as far apart as I can in different comics. 
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really!?... I never thought you had that problem, I can easily tell your characters apart.
IF ANYTHING...I'd say your cast is kinda vanilla...I don't mean vanilla as in plain/boring I mean literally vanilla, EVERYONE is white...but not just white, the exact same shade of white... it's like eveyrone lives under umbrellas 24/7
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I am well aware of my artistic racism. 
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well...some great things have been caused because lack of colors...Like Timmy Turners pink outfit or the Simpson being yellow. but flesh colors are another story...You could always have inked characters and only show them in color when using digital coloring...diversity is always a great reason to add in characters.
BUT that's not my only point...I mean...yes adding minorities to stories is always a good idea- even if they are just background characters, customers, one shots or whatever... but my real point is everyone being the same shade of white...it's like..doesn't anyone go outside? play spots, tan do anything that would make them darker? or stay inside behind a desk all day and they'd be paler?
just yaknow...anything.
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I understand what ya mean, I'll do my best to get some activity done for em (after all, Veronica is one of those tanning salon people after all). Thanks for being honest and friendly about it at the same time, pal.
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I do my best to help! you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar!
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Man, I get so much what you mean. How can someone draw the same body types over and over when it's so darn fun to play with proportions? I could make a guy who's weak and skinny, but tall and cute. A guy who's strong and muscular, but with no eyebrows. A girl who's got huge hips but no chest to speak of... THE LIST GOES ON!
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EXACTLY!!! it's SO FUN giving different characters different shapes and playing with their designs!
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oh dear, this is something I'm more than guilty of doing. I THINK of them as different but that doesn't really count.
However, Excellent point you're making, and good way of proving it!
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Very nice. I hope someone learns from this, definitely. I know I try and make all my characters unique myself xD I kinda wanna do something like this now, just cause, haha.
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This looks like something I might see on your run-of-the-mill cartoon station. A lot of "professional" and amateur cartoonists and anime artists make this mistake. I'm so very glad you don't, and I like how you displayed the point you're making. Excellent work!
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Hey look! It's the new character line-up for Winx-club! %D
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Well, when you put it this way, they look ridiculous yes!! X'D yet it also proves how easy it is to simple copy paste and recolour and they all look like very different characters P: weird really. Still, point well proven!!
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