I Like Your Oc Style ^_^

I like your oc style ^_^

Omg thank you ☆(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*

Up next, we went to pahkitew island to meet a bunch of weirdos. We've meet with

🐟the floating salmon🐟

Part 1 : Ezekiel, Eva, Noah, Justin, Katie, Tyler, Cody, Beth, Sadie, Courtney.

Part 2 : Harold, Trent, Bridgette, Lindsay, DJ, Izzy, Geoff, Leshawna, Duncan, Heather.

Part 3 : Gwen, Owen, Sierra, Alejandro.

Part 4 : Chris McLean, Chef Hatchet, Blaineley, Josh, Don.

Part 5 : Staci, Dakota, B, Dawn, Sam, Scott, Lightning.

Part 6 : Brick, Anne Maria, Mike, Jo, Zoey, Cameron.

Part 7 : Amy, Sammy, Rodney, Topher, Scarlett, Max, Jasmine.

Part 8 : Beardo, Leonard, Ella, Dave, Sugar, Sky, Shawn.

dr who’s on first, doctor strange is on second and doctor house is on third. theres no way theyre getting through a single inning

Hey, so a few years back you stated that to start drawing you replicated the styles of works you liked. How did you go about replicating the styles. I’m currently trying to create ocs that fit into a style similar to Clone High and Total Drama, whilst not being a carbon copy of existing characters.

Also, would it be easier to use 2d or 3d shapes.

You're quite lucky because Total Drama is an incredibly varied style, so there's a lot more flexibility to making OCs in the style without being carbon copies! To study styles, I tend to draw from reference, collecting how they draw head shapes/hands/different facial features/bodies, etc. in different sections to see what variety exists. Here, I've done bodies, heads, and faces, but I recommend creating sketch piles of whatever style elements you can think of.

(Total Drama/Clone High is one of the flattest styles possible. It's incredibly 2D and geometric, focusing on shapes rather than anatomy.)

You can really see this if you try to break down the characters into their basic shapes. Everything can be broken down into a single shape that are overlapped to form the body. By tracing over the existing characters, I can figure out what shapes they use for each character.

The head shapes are nearly always flat on top, with any sort of curve to represent the face shape, and a flat triangle-ish shape for the neck. Depending on how definied the jaw is, there can be a line spearating the head and neck, or not. The ears are always a quarter-circle shape.

The faces are then quite high up on the face and condensed. The eyes and nose don't usually overlap but they're very close together. The mouth is never directly below the nose, placed closer to one eye than the other.

Then, to put this into practice, I try to turn three of my OCs into the TD style. Trying to caricaturise existing characters helps you connect how certain features look in the new style.

I start with the basic shapes, then add the hair/clothes details.

So yeah, just a bunch of tracing/drawing from reference, and then trying to put it in practice, going back to references when you're uncertain.

I haven’t entered the gacha life for a long time, so I decided to remember the old days. 🧍

I made Peppino with a completely random explosion on the background. I tried to make him as close to the canon design as possible.

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