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A few days back asked me about designing characters....so I made this tip-torial. This is more or less my way to design gijinkas and OCs.Note that this is to help with designing a character's physical features...personality is something I don't think I can make a proper tutorial for.
I am not a professional so this is probably not the best way to go about making characters...but hopefully it helped someone!
Enjoy!
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and i googled 'bad anatomy art' and the first page was hentai LOL
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Ky, I love you for making this. It will be GREATLY helpful.
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Great tips! They are really helpful! Thanks for posting this
I searched "bad anatomy art" on google and most of the images that came up were either of Homestuck or Lion King fanart... WHAT DOES IT MEAN.
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Woo hoo~ This'll really help. Thanks!
I had such a hard time designing clothes for my gijinkas because it honesty never occurred to me to use clothes from other cultures. Your art and suggestions are a big inspiration to me in that way. Once again, thank you!
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Thanks you good sir. A problem I have with the characters I'm doing for a potential comic is that I have a hard time looking for different faces and such. This will help me greatly.
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This is amazing! Thanks so much for making it !!
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Oh, Kylee, you've always been amazing at making each and every one of your characters unique! Β΄ β½ `
Thanks for such a lovely tutorial! β₯β₯
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It's funny that i started to use silhouette method just few weeks ago XD
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Why is the Sniper from TF2 on this guide? lol
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That's actually her Krokorok (sp) character, Rex, from her Nuzlocke White comic. He does make a lot of references to the Sniper, though.
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That's a gijinka of one of her White Nuzlocke characters, It's meant to be a Krokorok.
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That Excadrill gijinka looks like he's checking out the Samurott mom's butt.
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I don't think it's possible to design a personality tutorial. The personality of a person's characters should really be thought up themselves, it just makes the OC more original.
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Hence my reason for not making one XD
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Yes, but there are a variety of tips and techniques that are useful to help you decide. A tutorial would probably utilize those. For example, I wouldn't recommend a particular archetype to match a design. Instead, I'd recommend combining and separating elements from existing characters, journalling in that character's voice, looking over lists of personality traits, answering personal questions for that character...there's a lot of good ways to do it and many of them can make great characters.
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Thanks so much! You caught me right in the middle of switching styles, so this is perfect for me! 
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This tips are very helpful for beginners (like me 
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This is great! Especially the thing about silhouettes, that is something I had never thought about.
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Wow, this is really cooL!
Thanks for doing this, I hope people find it helpful!
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The silhouette and face-shape ones are things that I always think of, but really need to work on. Thanks for the helpful reminder
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Awh, the girl with the red hair looks like "lille my"!~ 
lovely tutorial, btw!
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This is so great. ;w; Very nice change from artists who make all their characters sparkly and desu all the tiiiiime
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the anatomy part is actually really usefull, very nice.
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Interesting idea, rather useful too! 
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never knew about polyvore it looks like a great resource for drawing!
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It's quite similar to a guide on character design I've read by professional artist Scott McCloud in his book Making Comics. It's good stuff you've got there Kylee. c:
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*looking at characters on top* Hmm, I don't know why, but these all remind me of pokemon...
*scrolling down* Omigosh it is pokepeople!
(good tutorial by the way ^-^)
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I love looking at other peoples' processes. C:
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This is a great tutorial/reference/tip for character designing~
This actually gave me more confidence to try something more different/variant when I design characters
This can help me when I start making comics/manga/cartooning
Simple explanation, easy to understand, and visual explanations is a nice touch~
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This is really helpful. Thanks!
(Not that I will be drawing anytime soon, lazy and all.)
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