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shnehollander

when the sex is a character analysis

corromon

Was thinkin I wanna make her tail fluffier.

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glacierclear

Hiiii I'm a huge fan of your art so I come asking advice.... how do you keep all your characters looking so distinctive and unique? I'm having trouble branching out and I'm TRULY suffering from same face syndrome. It feels like I'm completely lacking in creativity design wise

thank you for the compliments ;; honestly i feel like my characters don't stand out enough haha, but i have a couple methods i employ to try and counteract my desire to draw everything the same.

SHAPES are a very important tool when it comes to design! i drew three characters, same hair and general look, but if you use different shape languages, different variations of soft curves and hard angles, and create distinct forms for the hair and eyes, it can make a world of difference! and then you just use those same shapes if you wanna draw the character again!

using some of my girls as an example, i try to give my more stylized/anime-esque characters even more stand-out features to help people identify them. color helps a LOT for these characters, but even if the image were completely grayscale, you'd still be able to tell them apart :)

and they all have hair over one side of their face, but in different styles and volume levels and presentations, so it still feels new when you're looking at them!

part of avoiding same-face is a style thing, but a huge part of it is just knowing design and knowing how to make design work for you! it can take a lot of experimenting, but overtime it becomes second nature!

studying how your favorite artists tend to differentiate characters is a huge help, ESPECIALLY for media that is black and white, like manga. most manga doesn't have the luxury of relying purely on color to make their cast stand apart, so they use smart design to help! and of course, there's always bad examples, where you can't tell which character is which, and it's important to study the bad, on top of the good!

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