#character shapes

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[kottonkandykiller]

guys I just figured something out about Vaggie’s design and this may already have been noticed but whatever. it needs a bit of background though

so I’m practicing just making character’s faces into shapes so I can draw them from memory better and it was Vaggie’s turn (I’ve already done Charlie and Alastor and I don’t really need to do it for Angel). so I started off with the basic facial structure layer and I traced over several pictures of her to figure out where the main circle is and whatnot and I realized “huh. this is really similar to how I would draw a typical human face but whatever.”

then I moved on to the facial features layer and I was like “wait hang on this doesn’t look like her at all, what—“ the problem was that everything was soft. there is not a single hard angle on her face. not one. even her nose is fairly curved.

then I did the last layer (her hair). her hair is entirely triangles, rectangles, and diamonds— no circles or ovals at all. even Alastor has at least one oval in his bangs. and I sat back and I looked at what I’d done and i was like “this definitely looks like her, but what if i—”

so I turned the hair layer visibility off and it didn’t look like her again. turned it back on and there she was. and it took a minute but it finally hit me.

her sharpness is what makes her her.

without her anger and her angles and her hard exterior, she is not Vaggie. she is someone else— someone that she left behind a long time ago.

[lucydoesart]

I loved doing this back in the day... I may do more of it.. Any suggestions on which group may be fun?

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Character Shape

If you've taken a character design class they've talked about character shape. Every character has a shape to them and this shape tells you what personality it holds. Villains will always be made up of triangle shapes to give them an evil feel. The supporting characters to the heroin, or characters who are reliable have a square shape to them. The girl is always an hour glass shape and the heroin or the protagonist is an average of all these shapes; the reason being because the audience must relate to him/her and sympathize with their troubles. You want to make him feel like an average person.