What's Your Design Process? Ily Bye

What's your design process? ily bye

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and hmm.. . i tend to use a lot of shapes when drawing! and all of them come based off the personality of the character im envisioning!

usually though i tend to focus on the face before designing the rest of the character because once i get the general face shapes i can use similar or complimentary shapes for the body of the character which is as equally as important as the rest is to the design!

uhh lets see …I’ll compare two of my characters and how i redesigned them!

for Noa I used rounder shapes to make him look young! i also tried to give him a sort of firmer look and you can tell more of that coming from his neck in comparison to Ban’s

for Ban I used triangles and squarish shapes for his face! i wanted it to look long and kind of droopy too!

same applies for their facial features and expression!

Noa is an energetic boy and is always up for a challenge! I want to keep his face looking childish so i use simple round eyes and some freckles! his nose is a simplified version of one thats pushed up! So yea he’s simple simple simple! I took inspiration from kid’s shows/anime since their designs are also simple but SUPER EFFECTIVE imo!!

Ban is also simple but more in personality than design! his face is made up of two shapes instead of one and his features are long and swoopy! i gave him a wiggly smile to make him look goofy and fun loving and his eye’s droopiness for his gentleness and really relaxed nature! his freckles are more for insinuating he’s a nerd ahaha!!

as for body shapes! (sorry this is a little old!! but the concept is the same!

You can tell ban’s legs are thinner and longer and noas are shorter compared to his body (his pants are sagging AHA thats more of a stylstic choice kjkfdaf) ban has a lot more longer shapes and limbs than noa does, as noa is supposed to look sturdier and compact! 

their posing here is also important: noa looks a lot more ready to go than ban!!

I personally enjoy designs where you can tell straight away that you’re looking at two different characters based on silhouette!

There are SO many things that make up a character!! it includes hair type, hair color, what clothes theyd wear HOW theyd wear it

Even a characters expressions can be completely unique to them even though theyre making the same ones another character is!

After these steps, for me i really just play around with the above mentioned (hair, clothes, accessories etc. etc.!!)

OF COURSE! a disclaimer: I’m really no expert at this! I’m still learning myself and this is just what I learned from my own experience! Everyone designs characters differently and there is no real solid way to designing a character. 

Having fun and drawing what you like is always most important!!

Weird question but if y’all were stuck in a time loop where you died and then the day restarted over and over again, what slightly insanity-inducing song would be playing every time you woke up

Presenting the new editions of all five Mangoverse books, a fluffy fantasy series focusing on LGBTQA+ Jewish characters getting happy endings and “found family.” The first four books are full-length, standalone novels; Tales from Perach is all seven in-universe short stories bundled together. I’ve added Hebrew+Yiddish glossaries at the end this time.

The Second Mango - origin story, in which Smol Lesbian Queen and hetero demi warrior woman become besties Climbing the Date Palm - Queen helps the bi prince from next door rescue his activist boyfriend from Certain Doom A Harvest of Ripe Figs - Queen solving mysteries in her capital city, chiefly the theft of a priceless violin, while raising a baby with her bi partner The Olive Conspiracy - Queen saves her country from a plot to sabotage her country’s agriculture Tales from Perach - includes f/f, m/m, and m/f trans romance and also Purim. If you’re familiar with the series but haven’t read Olive yet, and are wondering who the new couple on the cover is, they’re Hadar and Halleli.

I’ve had some problems getting paid, so I got my rights back from my publisher and reposted the entire series myself (with the help of the amazing Jane Dominguez, who turned art commissions from @theloserfish, @erikahammerschmidt, and Caroline C. into covers.)

From this point going forward, if you want to buy one of these books, please buy the editions that have the above art–if you don’t see it in your preferred format (ePub, paperback, etc.) never fear, because those are coming as fast as I can get to them. Paperback proofs have already been submitted to CreateSpace (and all the paperbacks except Mango and Tales have art on the back, too. I’ll share that once the paperback links go live.)

One bonus of this is that most of the books are now cheaper, and unless I’m reading something wrong the paperbacks will be cheaper as well.

This is still something I struggle with, so this is less a tutorial and more just a collection of tips and things I’ve noticed when drawing clothing folds! I hope this helps some of you!

Advice: Colouring (shading)

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