Character Design-time

  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...