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Some of you have asked me for some type of tutorial - as I don't have a LOT of time to go into a lot of detail, I thought I would show the basic steps that I do, when creating a new character. Every artist approaches this different, and has steps that they are comfortable with - which works for them. This is the process that "I" go through. There is no right or wrong way to do this. Find what you are comfortable doing, and continue with that - this is just another option to try.

Step 1: Create a base sketch, showing the basic stance, and shape of the character that you are creating. As you can see, this is merely blocking in place holders. These place holders will be changed many times, throughout the design process.

Step 2: add a little more definition to the character - giving it mass.

Step 3: roughing in some basic details - again these are merely place holders, that can be tweaked as you finalize your design.

The next phase we we will clean up the pencils, and define the character in more detail, and add muscle tone, clothing folds, and give the character more depth.

....to be continued........

Description
Some of you have asked me for some type of tutorial - as I don't have a LOT of time to go into a lot of detail, I thought I would show the basic steps that I do, when creating a new character. Every artist approaches this different, and has steps that they are comfortable with - which works for them. This is the process that "I" go through. There is no right or wrong way to do this. Find what you are comfortable doing, and continue with that - this is just another option to try.

Step 1: Create a base sketch, showing the basic stance, and shape of the character that you are creating. As you can see, this is merely blocking in place holders. These place holders will be changed many times, throughout the design process.

Step 2: add a little more definition to the character - giving it mass.

Step 3: roughing in some basic details - again these are merely place holders, that can be tweaked as you finalize your design.

The next phase we we will clean up the pencils, and define the character in more detail, and add muscle tone, clothing folds, and give the character more depth.

....to be continued........