I love all the art I've seen from your blog! I was wondering what your favorite part of designing a character is?
thank you! and goddamn that's a good question because that is such a tough one. see, i really really like character design. i love it, it's incredibly satisfying, i do a fuckton of it, and it is hard as fuck and often a miserable fucking process aubdskfjgb. it's like some messed up freeform puzzle, connecting shape and color language to personality and background, trying to mash it all up into one cohesive lump. but, as much of a pain in the ass as it is, it's also sooooo fucking satisfying. it's truly a rollercoaster for me.
that said, i'd say probably my favorite parts to work on are the face and hair! those come easiest to me and i feel most comfortable playing with them. colors can also be very fun because i like playing with accents n contrast. i really enjoy working with bold shape language, but it still doesn't come very naturally to me and the process often feels a little awkward. that's something i'd definitely like to work on more!
bonus rambles abt my design process below the cut because i got carried away lol
the best way i've found to do character design personally is working in rough stages and iterations- here's an example w/ outfit design
to start, i made a 'mannequin' base sketch, and then used a large brush in only grayscale to block in loose designs. you can see here i already had a basic idea in mind for how i wanted him to look- the shorts, robot legs, mask, and exposed skin on the torso pop up in each iteration in different ways. once i had several and felt like i was getting there, but hadn't quite gotten it exactly, i went back and circled my favorite parts of each design that i wanted to reuse. i made a couple more iterations with that in mind, then once i felt like i 'had it' i detailed it a bit more to finish it up.
then, with the final rough design, i made clean lines and filled it in with base colors, then copied it and recolored different ways. here's some more examples of color work-
(you can see that i also had some fun with recolors after i'd found colors i liked lmao)
i use the same general principle of focused iterations pretty much any time i'm doing serious character design stuff. i find it easier to approach designs in pieces rather than all at once ^-^
of course i don't ALWAYS do this, theres a lot of times that i approach things with a way looser 'fly by the seat of my pants' method, but when i'm really honing in and approaching it seriously this is usually my method ^-^
Wait.. I've been thinking, and wouldn't Izuku have a mutated transformation type quirk?? Does that mean House Cat.. er Aizawa.. could like stop Izu from becoming the big ass motherfucker of danger noodles??
“You all really think so, huh?... I... suppose that I could try something. But there’s still the worry of my brothers; you know how they are, don’t you? We’re all like bloodhounds with this sort of thing. They’d know in an instant and I... I don’t know how I feel about that.”
Hey hello! I have a few questions for the mun. I er hope you don't mind. You said you had a story about this and I was wondering if you could put a link up to it. Also wanted to say you are a lovely artist and I wish I could have your level of patience and perseverance. Have a lovely day dear!
Absolutely! The fic is called “Advice” and here is the link to the first chapter, thank you!!!
