Character Design-time

  Hello once again dear readers, For the past couple of months, I have been watching ‘Haikyuu!!’ an anime about a high school volleyball team and their rise to the top! Declan, author of puff pastry crusade recommended this show to me with high praise and I must say it has lived up to the hype. Engaging characters, exciting volleyball games, Haikyuu has it all. But how it pertains to my blog is the way the show uses character design to fill you in on details and tell part of the story. What do I mean by this? Well, the main characters are all on one team that you follow for the entire show. These main characters have lots of opportunities to be developed and face problems throughout the show, but they are also going up against completely new characters every game they play, so how do they make you care about their opponents during these games? They design the important characters to look interesting. The animators are able to draw you in and be curious about certain characters jus...

  Hello again and welcome to the penultimate blog post for Character Design-Time, With school going back online after a disastrous holiday break here in Ontario, I have had ample opportunity to sit at my desk for a couple of hours and learn some things about designing characters. I decided to move away from faces and start working on my character’s clothing/bodies. The way I see it, clothing/bodies might be even more important than what their face looks like. I mean it’s the first thing you see right? This site had a great system for drawing poses that I’ve seen before but hadn’t given a second thought. After using this method though, I will definitely be using this every time. You start by drawing essentially a stick figure with notches at all of the joints in your character, and a head shaped like what I made in the last blog post. Something like this - - > Then, you draw the ‘muscles’ of your character, fleshing out the body with how you want it to look. You use pretty rudim...

  Hello once again,  After a couple weeks of just letting my creativity fly and creating whatever I want, I decided to bring it back to the other main idea of this project, improving my drawing skills. I have always struggled with creating the humanoid face, which I’m sure everyone has, the face is probably the hardest thing to draw on a human, even in front of hands! Between the complex eyes and drawing lips that don’t look like they’re from rue paul’s drag race (unless you are trying for that), the face provides many challenges to the artist, unless you have a good tutorial. I used this youtube video tutorial to improve my drawing skills, it detailed the step-by-step process to draw human faces which I will try to show you, but I would recommend watching the video if you are interested. I have looked at a couple drawing tutorials in the past and they all were pretty similar so I’m going to assume that this is the basic method for drawing realistic faces. First of all, you s...