*1. Don't draw koichi*

@@LuxasVTUBER but he is a very reliable guy tho

Character: What’s dignity?

Koichi really doesn't wear clothes? No dignity.

Dignity is nothing more than a social construct society uses to oppress and exploit

Yes but when you understand them they are magníficent

StarDust176 GURL YAS

Whenever I make folds, the cloth looks like weird raisins.

@T_T are you saying that you look like weird raisins or...

One tip is to simply calm down and not over doing the amount of wrinkles you actually use. So choose a few major defining folds and draw those.

nice

Nicely done

nice

do you remember what book it was?

@@thatbelen i think any fashion designing book would work. I saw a bunch of them on my local bookstore. You can look up fashion or clothing on the section.

RIP!

😂

Try to go to a rich people mall and just take pics of the mannequins That’s what I do since uh... I’m in the middle east, I can’t get actual refs from malls.

I was at the mall wearing a fancy dress

Still better than over here where I live, some chick was wearing a tube top and booty shorts in an air-conditioned mall

I was like "oh no lil baby brookes!"

Oooookay...

So basically Freddy Jones from Scooby-Doo

@Aurora-Moon Studios LMAO

Googles in your mind

I mean, if you didn't say it loudly then google reads your mind.

@@HotHeadCringe Same and I found myself on a comment I wrote 6 months ago. I completely forgot about it.

Phones listen to you

Yeah

Mr. Tree Frog what is outside?

Nerds

@@assassincharmander390 think it's a type of cake

Sasha Gacha I don’t like cake so I’ll avoid this “outside” (I like cookie cake ;p)

Ew

Complete chaos!

@Sydney chaotic chaos

@@therewasoldcringe that reminds me about my martial arts teacher. He’s really serious and formal. And right after the class before a break, I saw him in the parking lot, wearing a polo shirt and knee-high white shorts. Polar opposites.

I like to think of colors as an extension of emotion. If a character is a happy, confident o e then I tend to use warmer more robust colors. For example, I am a cosmetologist, happy people don't normally come in looking for me to give them a really drab hair color. They normally ask for a very bright color or warm color. If it is a cool color it's normally bright and if it's wicked unnatural it's normally more like a pastel that requires prelightening.

Jacob Martin I can't draw super professionally either, and you're right. Some of the tips here help tremendously in the planning stages of a character. If only I could draw well instead of the crappy lines that I make…

立黄 amazing pun

Lmao I actually did give one of my characters a sort of loin cloth because it was supposed to be way back when in a hot, muggy environment.

Loincloths can express a lot of personality.

@@flavoredchin Yeah you can tell if they're a pervert or a gentleman

Cancel thanks! a lot of it depends on the production, sometimes wardrobe changes are taxing on say an animated production. Having a contemporary character change clothes is totally normal. Perhaps have a signature set of shapes for the clothing and simply change sleeve length and colors. Your mileage may vary, that's honestly a judgement call to make on an individual basis.

I actually mentioned that in the updated version of this video from a few months ago- absolutely, practicality is a big deal if the tone or setting of the story accommodates it!

That Random Encounter Guy hehe

EEEW! duuude... WHAT THE F*CK!?

same. i mean its just some furry parkour violence genre for my character. they don't need clothes but some equipment like weapon holder or some sort

@@iputapipebombintoyourmailb6210 noice. not makin a furry show but i do have a kind of anti-hero show, which i have made a total of 2 characters for. anyways if you wanna help you can and ill credit you in the final product as well as profit share. (not a bribe just dont wanna run off with free content)

@@russiancheems2275 sounds good for me. ok

Well, I would say hair can tell a lot about a person. If it's well kept, the character probably cares a lot about self image, or takes care of themselves. If a person has hair over their eyes, maybe they're more reserved. Just experiment with hair to get the most out of it!

Same as clothes. Along with the brush's ideas. Is the character wearing a culture-related hairstyle. Or a traditional hairstyle. Is it long or short? If it's long it can have a wild care free demeanor, or show they care about keeping up with long hair, or are traditional. People with long hair don't always wear it out either, they may tie it into a style for practical, cultural, or style reasons. Short hair can mean they are no frills, or masculine, or in a military-like setting, or may have little or no hair for health reasons, or according to the character's traditions. The character's society may have different social mores for hair length and style. Do they wear the hair in a presumably natural texture, or do they curl or straighten it? Color it? How forthcoming are they if they do. People self conscious about may color gray to hide aging or premature graying. Or the hair may be grey and they embrace it because they're cool like that. If they color it they may come across has "sloppy" by having undyed roots. Or the hair may be an unnatural color because they express themselves. Fancy hair-dos are expensive so whether a character invests in that or not says something. Does the character have facial hair too? Repeat.

陳諾亞 wait was your comment in the video?

陳諾亞 I relate to you on a spiritual level

photo reference! take pictures of your hands in different positions/doing different things. also, I find a webcam can be especially helpful for taking more dynamic reference photos if you don't have a friend handy to photograph/be photographed by!

or you could just draw your non-dominant hand, that's what I do, because I hate photo reference.

Try to break up the hand in 3d shapes and think about the hand that way,

If you have the moneyz. You can buy a mannequin. I got a small one from daiso for 4$

Thanks so much!

Thanks Chris!

LUIS CARLOS Olano This seems like a good place to write this: I'm sorry everyone, I appreciate your interest through comments, and I did ask for your questions under one specific video a few weeks back, but in order to both feel useful, and to assist you with your comments, some basic etiquette, grammar, etc, would be great. Understand it's difficult when folks are only ever looking to take. This question here, I'm not able to help as I don't fully understand what's being asked.

Brookes Eggleston - Character Design Forge I think hes saying If characters age like those story characters growing up to adults.

I think the question is either "how to age your character?" or "how to make a character design that won't feel dated? aka "age well"".

Rather beside the point, though.

like for example lets say i the character hair style is from this current year and a few year passes and the audience would say the character looks ridiculous and old. lets also compare Mario design which is age pretty well and the new audience dont find it ridiculous

Haha I 3d printed your pfp

Ok but like this was made years ago im distancing too 😆

@@CharacterDesignForge lmaooo thats fair. hope ur staying safe!

Jack1994hoo well, i'm not an expert on this stuff, but maybe i can help a bit with that: the first step is to think of these few key elements: what kind of hair your character is naturally born with, how much they actually care about their hair, and then lastly what their personal style is and what they like to do with it. There's different types of hair out there, ranging from super straight to wavy to curly and everywhere in between. normally, people tend to associate more sophisticated characters with straight hair, more lazy characters with wavy hair, and more carefree characters with curly hair - but this can be played around with a bit. in terms of haircuts themselves, a few things you can wonder about are like, how can you apply said haircut to this character's personality? maybe a more timid character probably has bangs and a kind of softer look to make them stand out less, or maybe a very 'chill' guy would grow his hair out and forget to shower/brush it (you know, the guys that look like they either surf or play guitar) - or maybe this character cares a lot about their hair and goes out of their way to gel and style and curl/straighten it until it's perfect. there's a lot you can play around with when it comes to this - for me, i just try to find something that suits them, but sometimes there's not much you can do. adding pieces that stick out in their own little ways is also cool, and makes for a more interesting design overall. hopefully that helped??

Jack1994hoo if none of that works tbh just flip through a haircut magazine or something idk

Sometimes haircuts are because it's more useful to wear it a certain way for a certain reason. For example, when someone asks me to give them bangs I immediately ask them what they do for work. The reason is because if I give them bangs and they work at a desk doing paperwork all day then when the bangs start to grow out they might aggravate the crap out of them so it worth a conversation to make sure they're sure they wanna keep it up. But maybe that's something that would be fun for a character to fight with and make silly mistakes because of if a character is a clutz or something. If a character is neat and tidy then a very structured haircut might be good while a fun loving character might have a ton of layers and maybe even be unruly. Also, different hair types will act differently with the same haircut so you have to figure out what hair type your character has. I also always have certain questions for those clients who don't know what they want to do with their hair and those are: 1) how much time do you want to spend doing your hair? 2)what do you do for work? 3)do you want me to cut it so your baseball cap fits better longer? 4)do you use hair products at home? Which ones? 5)what habits would you be disappointed if you couldn't do it anymore with your hair? (Like tucking behind the ears, pony tails, etc). 6)do you get cold/hot easy? 7)how short would be too short? These questions help clients start thinking about giving me the boundaries and pleases that I need in order to give them the perfect cut. I also use them to draw and imagine my character is my client. What would they tell me to give them for their haircut/style. Sometimes the questions I ask people are because of things I notice about them personally like the baseball cap question.

did he answer?

That's awesome! Glad to have you!

Thanks! There’s actually a much newer version of this video from a month ago 🙂

GalaxyPros which things lacked examples?

Well thanks for taking the time to respond. But I think that maybe designing a character to show as a visual. For example the personality section. You can show a loose clothed person in comparison to the tighter clothed person.

i need a video like this

@@mpqan Right?!

Research idk