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JohnSu — How to Create New Characters
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Hypothesis:I really have just one original character, and my gallery is a result of failed attempts to reproduce it over the years.
But in all honesty, this is something that's been bugging me recently. I have difficulty drawing my own characters consistently! I don't know if this is the reason I keep making one shot characters or just a result of the practice.
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Maybe if I practice drawing crappy manga I will get better at this.
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Ahahaha, there are many more riding this train. I for one.
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...All of my charaters magically deage whenever I draw them more than a couple times.
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At-least you drew the same bed sheets as you did in your other illustration with the ants.
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so true and it usaly leads to tears
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I. Know. Right.
Sometimes I'll trace a drawing and it still comes out too different.
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It's a relief to hear that even the skilled and great suffer from this problem from time to time
Great work!
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It's amazing how true you made four panels into. : D
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You, sir, are very capable when it comes to cracking me up.
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I LOLed. I for some reason rarely have this problem, and I think I know why: generally, if I draw a character that looks good, I reproduce the facial and body proportions of the first drawing, measuring carefully, into all the others.
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Just do things the way Akira Toriyama does with Goku's hair and throw logic out the window. : D
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and the animators curse him whenever they have to do a rotating shot of Goku
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heh, you should make a character that never looks the same
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It happens to everyone. It takes me forever to draw my character consistantly... then I go and change it up and have to start all over again. XD I really love your gallery either way.
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OMG! I thought I was the only one with that problem!
Thank the Great Owl I'm not the only one yeah?
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LOL THATS HYSTERICAL u no wat buy a Manga Matrix book it teaches you how
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There's a good reason why I never managed to get into the comic-making business...
Okay, there's a few hundred reasons, but this is one of them.
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OMG. I can relate sooo much with this. hahahah! 
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xD Don't worry, I'm sure every artist has this problem at some point.
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Same....
I guess you have to have a 3D map in your head first? Like thinking of your character as a model sitting on your desk or something
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Yes. True story for me. I can't seem decide on a hairstyle for mine. @.@
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Yeah I think that is the hardest part of drawing characters - making them actually look like the same character each time. You're super awesome though, so keep trying!
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Sometimes i feel its a miracle to draw the same character twice and have it still look the same, so dont feel bad about it.
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I have the same problem, John. Not that that's any consolation. I'm just a random guy.
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Although I'm nowhere near as skilled as you, I'm able to draw my characters consistently. I usually start out really simple, and the more I draw them, the more details I add, then, BOOM. I just memorize every pencil stroke c:
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Comic=my life. You are NOT alone my friendly friend. O3o
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lol I actually get my characters to look better as I redraw them ,but am to lazy to redraw them & is always thinking of new ones. My original drawings of my characters actually suck out loud.
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How about draw the same character but, with different outfits
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that happened to me last night while i was drawing the character in my avatar
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Ohhhh I have the same problem.. It sucks
Just don't give up I guess. Keep drawing them, I know it sounds bleh and blah but keep drawing them and if it doesn't turn out like you wanted, try again another day when you're in the mood
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Its pretty true especially when you draw comic forms. Most of the time we only see the front of the face but then thats all you draw, the front of the face. SO the style kind of gets to you, and the result is a flatten picture.
The best resolution is to study some of the human faces from different angles. It somewhat helps to study some bone structure, because human drawings and anatomy remain closely the same. Draw like a concept artist/animator basically. Start simple shapes and know your landmarks. Even if you don't know your bone structure, its ok to give your self some guidelines, so you know where everything goes and it remains more consistent.
You probably realize how much manga artist are actually pretty awesome since they are so consistent with their characters. It probably helps if you find some original sketches of your favorite artist to see how they resolve the problem of being consistent.
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in retrospect, you did correctly draw her in another angle, as in as a different age, its the same as looking at somthing from another angle. but yeah not exactly what you had in mind.
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later in life, she began to grow stubble on her chin
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