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Unique Features Tutorial: Pt 2
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Hey! I have two webcomics where you can see this in action: Miamaska and Trial of the Sun . If you liked these tutorials give them a shot!Check out part 1 here! jeinu.deviantart.com/art/Uniqu...
and part 3 here! fav.me/d3a6v8u
Part 2: Lady Faces! Sorry I took more than a week! The next one will be next month sometime, keep an eye out for it. Feel free to pass this along to artists who are struggling with this sort of problem. I hope it helps
All those characters up there are copyrighted to their respective owners, I do not claim ownership to any of them.
This tutorial series was inspired in part by an article on the TvTropes website. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php... Click there to see more examples!
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A thought provoking exercise for character designers. Although alot of character designs are more simple to keep as a template and keep the cast consistent, and also make them easier to draw, easier to draw from memory, and make them appeal to people who like other shows that have characters that look like them.
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oh having same faces certainly is a time saver, but if you can't tell them apart in black and white then there's a problem.
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i guess thats why designers often go with different hairstyles and colours with the 2 main characters having one light and one dark haired.
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yeahhh i kinda see that as a cop-out, sorry
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i guess it works with animation and manga when teams of people have to draw the same characters the same. Not as inspiring as the ideas you suggested, but I guess anime/manga designs havent really changed much in decades because people like that look too.
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I know your comment is from like a year and a half ago? But whatever. Have you seen Fullmetal Alchemist? It has a very simple style, but the artist has a lot of varied character designs.
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I'm in trouble with using the same nose shape over and over. :/ I just find one nose shape better than another and it's hard for me to draw something that I don't find pretty. :c Though I do seem to keep my style so it's weird. Then again I can never draw the exact same thing twice, which annoys me. I practice and practice and I still cannot. :c Makes me feel a bit sad, but oh well. I did do one thing, not with the face really, to make a character not look like another... I slashed off one arm from the character. Quite easy really.
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Faces can be as annoying as hands sometimes especially old ones or baby faces...
This is quite helpfull.
I have problems with the shape of the faces(and lips, i guess) mostly, but i am improving.
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my next tutorial is actually only old & young people hehe, stay tuned!
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It's just a shame that with some anime art styles (there are many, and I'm only referring to some of the different styles), you can't really put a whole lot of detail like this into characters without them looking inconsistent with the rest of the cast or looking like a random "western" cartoon character was thrown into the bunch.
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yeah, i find it even more unfortunate when people only learn to copy anime styles, never really understand the basics... anyway thanks for the comment.
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I know I'm not perfect, but I have tried other styles and such, it's just my challenge is to find out how to stick to my style (since I have a comic drawn in said style) but make characters a bit more individual without deviating from the style and therefore make the change seem inconsistent and strange.
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i know the feeling, my sketching style fluctuates wildly from week to week. i hear a lot of artists go through this though, so i wouldn't fret about it
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I think for cartoons it's just easier to animate that way
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certainly is, but it sacrifices character distinction
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This is VERY helpful, as I also have the same issue with making my OCs look the same. This is much appreciated!
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Very helpful to see so many options all in comparison. Thank you!
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I've read all three of these and I must say good work! These are all full of great tips and good illustrations showing what you're talking about. I always try really hard to keep my characters varied (though I still need work, especially with men) but even for me this is full of useful reminders. I will say this is very much aimed at folks doing comics, one shot animations, and general illustration rather then your typical cartoon show animation. As other people have said in a lot of cartoons they keep the faces the same for a lot of characters for ease of animation (or rather because it's faster and therefore cheaper for them in most cases).
That doesn't make this any less helpful though (and doesn't mean people shouldn't still strive to make better designs in animation)! I'll be linking to this from my blog (both on DA and my artblog) it's too awesome not to^^
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yeah, as an animator i know the pull towards just using the same face shape. i don't mind it so much because it can be done well if the characters at least had unique faces, but so many of them don't. there will probably always be cookie-cutter shows, but this is for the people that want to break away from that
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Excellent tutorial! I think youยดve made some great points here!
Congrats on the DD, by the way!
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Fantastically done. I love it!
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I have such a hard time figuring out different noses.
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Awesome and much needed tutorial. Definitely deserving of the DD
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Not only is this a fantabulous smack-bang awesome tutorial, but it's entertaining too!
I APPROVE WHOLLY, AND MY APPROVAL IS APPARENTLY IMPORTANT
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Now THIS I can definitely take note of! Thanks!
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God you make pretty noses!
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This will help me a lot - I so far suck at making my characters vary. xD
Thank you very much! :3
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AHHHHH! Dude i LOVE u....thx! it helps!
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Very useful and well deserving of a DD 
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wow awesome job and congrats on the DD!
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Absolutely genius and very helpful!
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learned a lot from this one thanks
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Thank you-- Hopefully my characters will be more realistic after I apply the stuff I learned from this. C:
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absolute great tut. thanks very much
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great tut--congrats on the DD
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I love this
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8U Looolll, it's funny when people never figure this out.
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Faces gotta be the hardest part to draw for me, specially the eyes >.<
Never before I tought of using a V indent for eye proportions and spacing, many thanks for the tip
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This gives me so many ideas, it's sure to help
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Finally! Someone with the same opinion as my own!
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This is great, and it's definitely helped me to think more about my characters' faces. I think all artists should take this into account.
Well deserved DD!
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Wow! Man, I pride myself on sketching original characters and unique faces, but this has a lot of tips and tricks- I'll be getting better in no time
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