/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4679059
>Discuss character design
>Critique your character designs
>Post character design inspiration references
no, i don't think i will.

>>4679094
That's fine, I have some pictures to share

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What's a good way to get started on character design? I've wanted to try it for a while. I'm pretty confident with poses but I always get stuck on stuff like outfits/hairstyle and end up going for the most boring shit.

Capcom had some godlike character designers back in the day

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>>4679540
find characters you don't find boring and mix and match features(color scheme from character A, shapes from character B, hairstyle from character C, etc). The more drastic the difference of genres the characters come from, the less the character will look derivative. I would suggest to try and use real world reference as well for outfits you don't know how they work and you are just copying someone else's symbols they learned from drawing the real thing.

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>>4679558
I've actually never considered mixing designs the way you described, that's a huge help. Thanks!

>>4679540
You should probably be more confident in your taste. The moment you go into tunnel vision trying to think up "a good design" is the moment all creativity dies. Just let yourself throw around stupid shit for once. Something will work eventually and you'll know when that is.

As far as character design goes I personally recommend picking some kind of basic shape and around 3-6 colors and building from there. Achieve certain effects with motifs, color distribution, contrast, noise etc.

character design thread aka i'm going to spam a million mega man and other retarded "reference" of things i like that aren't actually good

>>4679618
poopoo in my butt cheecks

@4679618
>i deliberately entered a thread full of things i do not like, and now i am mad

@4679637
I was trying to see if maybe this was any different but to my utter shock it wasn't because it's the same handful of people posting in the same threads here all the time

@4679685
peepee for my bung ho

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>>4679561
you could be a lot more helpful by posting concepts, turnarounds and sheets and not just pictures drawn for promos

>>4680155
ok retard

>>4679059
I have a thing for victorian coats.

>>4679540
I do it by silhouetting and thinking about shape language. Are they a stable reliable character? Square/rectangle dominant. Are they uptight? Triangles. Are they evil? Lots of narrow triangles. Are they soft and caring? Circles. It could be in their face, body, clothing motif/general shape of clothes. What world do they live in? What era? Are they rich (aestheric leaning designs) or poor (basic function over fashion)? In a city or outsiders? These things will affect things like hairstyle, clothing and tattoos.

I doodle until I find something I kind of like and then I explore that further through lots of iterations.

Just found out about this character and god I love her. Obviously doesn't belong to me idk where else to share though hope yall enjoy her just as much as I do
Oh and it's blueBORG16's character

>>4681115
>generic coom oc
Get some taste please

>>4681258
>generic
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA WHAT A FUCKING RETARD YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS HAHAHA WHAT THE FUCK I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS SHIT OH MY GOD KILL YOURSELF YOU FUCKING MENTALLY DISABLED FAGGOT

In what way is this design generic lmao. Even for a - chan type character she stands out a ton, never seen her before but followed the creator immediately, this is an S tier design.

>>4681115
what's up with pandas? been seeing more of them lately

>>4681327
from what I remember they drew her as an Animal Crossing Villager once where she was a panda, don't know if that was the origin of that tho lemme look for the AC thingie

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Yeah this is the origin I think not 100% sure doe

Yo wtf? Blueborg in 4chan?? Real shit??
Love that dude. At first I grouped him in with the other popular Twitter artists who aren't actually good and only care about numbers but this dude's great. Talked to him in a server a couple of times and they're such a genuinely nice person and have so many cool character ideas, I wish them the best for their life

Reminder to keep discussion related to characterdesign

>>4681407
i'll do what i want you fucking faggot

The worst thing about blueBORG16 is there not being a lot of porn if their characters lol, they're all very lewdable and much more creative than 'big tittie anime Twitter artist oc no.500'

>>4681264
dude I feel sorry for you, regardless if you're shitposting or not

>>4681496
i feel sorry for you too
imagine being such a FAGGOT

>>4681327
i fucking hate pandas, the worst bear and possibly the objectively worst animal, period. Fuck pandas.

Here's an antagonist I drew up a while ago, he's sitting on the backburner.

>>4681552
Here's Mindy the Mechanic

here's some coomer shit

Here's an exosuit for one of my characters, which counts i think.
it's my go for creating an iconic suit similar to the HEV suit or samus' Power Armor

a slightly more rendered out version of a doodle i did

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This game was so good

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>>4681578
These are neat, you have a blog?

>>4681568
It looks reeeeally similar to Samus armor. If you hadn't said it was based on it I'd think you were doing a design for another Samus suit or something. You might want to study some different references like space suits and pilot suits and try to pull more inspiration from other things to break it up more.

watch out moneybags coming through

watch out niggers plantation owner coming thru

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Where did it all go so wrong. We used to look absolutely spiffing.

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>>4679610
Tried applying what you guys suggested to this sketch, thanks for the tips!

>>4681053
Just saw this, I’ve never been good with shape language but I’ll try to keep it in mind going forward.

Can anyone recommend any YouTube videos discussing character design and shape language in a non cartoon-y style?

Most of the videos I've seen on the topic go for an exaggerated American children's cartoon art style. Making a character with shoulders 5 times the width of their waist or a triangle for a head works in American cartoons but I feel like that doesn't translate to a more grounded semi-realistic or anime-inspired art style.

How can make use of shape language in a more subtle way?

>>4680306
this makes me throw up in my mouth. i hope you're happy.

>>4682184
Very happy.
W-would you film it for me? T-the throwing up? That would make me reeeeally happy

>>4682184
???

>>4682079
uh, pol response? kikes and niggers
non-pol response? The French and Industrial revolutions, which jews and minorities surely figured into-- somehow.

>>4682150
This dude's vid on the evolution of Kiss Shot in Kizumonogatari is pretty neat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvSCDh4Iejo

>>4682184
where else would you throw up?

>>4680306
kakuranger is kino

>>4681115
>heterochromia
ruined

>>4682771
oh I guess I should also mention spoilers for Kizumonogatari

bumping

>>4679059
How the fuck do I make anime characters that have a unique silhouette

They're all so crazy nowadays just to be recognizable at a glance it's so hard to keep up AAAAAAHHHHH

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>>4681578
Wow, you disappeared for like 6 months only to come back with more shitty art. Almost impressive how you lack the ability to learn appeal. I suppose I shouldn't have expected anything from a futa fag.

>>4687870
>bumping thread
>not posting an image

>>4680754
forget Victorian
18th century frontier-wear is where it's at.
Or oilskins.

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What I forgot to add here was: "give them a big gun and pigtails" Hair style and clothes/equipment will be more than half the battle probably.

Guess /ic/ don't do a lot of character stuff, huh?

>>4681115
I like the "B" design, but the main design is that animu waifu fashion
>underboob shirt
>Short pants
>stockings that squeeze the thigh

Y2K era sci fi futurism is making a comeback slowly. But for some reason, hardcore comic fans overlook the fact that Superman, Superboy, Young Justice V1, and the Green Lantern series were churning out futurism designs like crazy until 2006

>>4689777
Like the team working on Superman in the 2000s were a bunch of weaboos

>>4689787
I think what makes these designs endearing is the use of gradients combined with the art style being more toony/eastern inspired. Many Superman artists who were called in for the "Y2K" era weren't realistic/"The DC House style". This era get's the least amount of love

>>4689798
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ comics are dead. Never read 'em. Read some Judge Dredd tho, and one other little 2000 AD thing. The age of comics is over, now is the age of manga.

>>4689828
Comics being distributed in person are dead because of corona.
Comics made by the Big 2 are dying because the big 2 has moved to movies/tv shows/vidya
But comics made by non big 2 companies/indie comics will live on

>>4689843
Back to design. Valiant comics have been mostly hitting it off with their light hearted comics in terms of art/design. 2016's Archer and Armstrong was like a return to little nemo styled fantasy in it's background and alien designs. The designs in their serious comics are really mediocre terrible

>>4689863
The speech bubbles cover too much, that's a writing problem. But I love the blockyness of everything in the art

>>4689798
sauce?

>>4689884
Pasqual Ferry on Action comics 792

bumpo

>>4679059
Was goin for a gangster dude feeling. I hit it or miss it?

>>4692746
Miss. That pose is really weird and looks like he's pulling his pants down to take a shit or getting a blowjob.

>>4692783
big sad

oh well, twas only a 2 minute sketch

>>4692746
why is the cigarette in his nose?

>>4694111
high mouth goddammit

>>4692586
Based Blanche and his crayons

This thread is so painfully slow

>>4696705
rad alien, reminds me of Wayne Barlowe

thoughts on the hololive character designs?

>>4697662
what is this? a waifu for ants?

>>4697662
generic garbage. Well... not really garbage just mediocre, nothing designs. Indistinguishable from any other gatcha-fotm-vocaloid-waifu kinda shit

>>4697662
Dumb. Looks like someone's MMD original character XD donut steal

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>>4697726
Still better than anything either of you could ever design. You don't get points for being original or clever if it looks like shit and no one likes it.

>>4697702
Gacha revitalized the anime girl with gun genre and created the ship girl. That social media is flooded with them because people genuinely like the designs makes them good imho, and not "mediocre, nothing designs."

Despite this drawing being shit in general, Is anything wrong with this character design? He supposed to be a beginner adventurer

>>4697751
Oh I'm sorry did I insult your waifu? :^)
He asked if it was good, coomer. Sorry the cold hard truth hurt your anus so bad. I'll try to lube it up a little more next time.

>>4697787
plain modern fashion mixed with archaic gear makes me think he's Ash from Army of Darkness, only needs a boomstick

>>4697790
lmao okay retard

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>>4697751
>asks for thoughts on design
>'it's generic design'
>reeee it's not original or clever design but everyone likes it so its good
did you open this thread just to damage control? you admit yourself it's not original or clever. popular=/=good eg. pop music- catered to consoomers, people with no artistic taste. the selling point of those are the characters behind the visuals (be honest!) there's some appreciation for the success of the business but it's carried not by the visual design, look at the other smaller vtubers on yt or the thousands that flopped in the past, more or less the same level/quality of design yet no one likes them huh. And unlike >>4697760 gachashit there's no unifying design element in all hololive designs, they don't complement or contrast each other, the designs are seemingly made to be standalone yet in a group? nothing against being gachikoi over voiceovered drawings but if you think this is anything but generic, and youre on ic, and you call yourself an artist I will be disappointed.

>>4687987
A lot of futafags understand appeal really well. Like doxy, bbcchan, ryou agawa, faustsketcher, toxxy, sinner and many others.

>>4689285
>character design
>it's just one generic anime girl in different military gear without pants

what a sad time to live in, when people think porn is anything but repulsive

>>4687987
Fuck you man these are all old as shit drawings. At least im not a pompous cunt who talks like a shitty anime villain

>>4679059
not OP, but I made a character design discord a while back. It's pretty chill. We try to give each other honest critiques. It's slow, but we try to promote good character designs.

https://discord.gg/SrVmPrd

what about her?

>>4698351
A girl in a hat and a dress with inverted hands is hardly character design.

>>4698362
it's the retard's design choice, don't overestimate my iq

an oc for a fictional idol group im making, she's a cute happy go lucky leader and i'm hoping to have a blog out for the rest of the girls soon

Some cop robot design I did a while ago.

>>4679156
This one looks great, realistic and different.

>>4696705
I like it. Looks like a real thing.

>>4698954
yo this looks great anon, i like the character design. You got an insta or blog?

>>4699234
I also drew this while watching Gurren Lagann in quarantine.

I made this angel-like OC that I have no many plans for but I enjoyed making it

>>4697760
Don't ever compare GF to the generic shit of virtual youtubers or other shitty gacha games like kancolle rip off ever again, faggot

This is a Character I made

>>4699437
Her name is Emberly, It's actually my first OC

>>4699437
Cute

>>4699319
pretty nice anon i like the texture of the clothes

>>4679059
I like this. Reminds me of Lupin.

>>4699642
That’s because it’s Miyazaki. Y’know, they guy who worked on part 1-2 and directed “Castle of Castrioglio “

>>4699644
oh shit gotcha, I assumed it was OC. I love that movie.

>>4699492
Thanks! I know the cloak looks "unrealistic" but that's the tone I was going for

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>>4697862
What can I say, I'm a simple man who would take a competent design that has mass market appeal over something hyper stylized and pushing the envelope that exists only for a board full of asperger retards to circle jerk about.

>>4699929
well you're just in the wrong crowd of asperger retards, try >>/jp/hololive if you want to circlejerk about vtubers. but leave /ic/ to art nitpicking circlejerk, an attempt at discussion of the design was made>>4697862

I am working on some characters to start taking cheap commissions from dnd players.
What do you think?

>>4679551
I'm pretty sure many of them are still alive.

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>>4699440
sorceress/swashbuckler multiclass?

>>4700172
If youre going to do tabletop chracter comissions you may want to study more on how to construct/draw beast races/furry characters. Theyre quite popular

>>4700227
Thank you, I will

>>4700172
If you're going for dnd, 1 and 3 are way too cartoony/simplified. RPG characters need lots of details since these are just for one off illustrations usually so they need to be visually interesting and tell a story with their details
2 is much better, and what I suggest you to go for more

>>4700307
do you have any good examples/artists for dnd?

>>4700225
I kinda based her personality and skills around my save file of Skyrim, she's supposed to be good at destruction magic, but that's not her main feature, she loves looting and it's a bit reckless.

I put there the sword because when I was just starting the game I went to fight some Draugr and I ran out of Mana, so I had to take the sword from one of them and fight. I like to think that Emberly did that while treasure hunting.

>>4699359
OK retard

>>4697862
Tbf I just really like Houshou's design.

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>>4699440
I like her, except that... footwear, whatever it is.

>>4701065
>when I was just starting the game I went to fight some Draugr and I ran out of Mana, so I had to take the sword
It's a common thing, that's why wizards should always have swords. Though in your case I think you could give her a summoned sword (seeing as she doesn't have a scabbard either), it would be a nice detail to make the design stand out. If she's a looter she'd be dabbling in various schools of magic to be more versatile.

>>4701252
Yeah, the footwear
I wanted her feet to be big, like in Panty And Stocking, but I didn't know how to make it work
Since then I've been avoiding that part

Yeah! Makes sense, thanks!

>>4679059
He's a guy I've been thinking about. Still rough ane early.
>>4697787
As a rule of thumb I ask myself a few questions when making a character like this.
>who made their clothes?
>was it made by hand or manufactured?
>what materials and techniques were available to the people who made them?

>>4700347
>do you have any good examples/artists for dnd?
https://twitter.com/TGuerolaArt
This guy is insanely talented but he refused to shill himself in the way I begged him to. He has a fraction of the followers he deserves

went for a sketch

Bumping with a sketch.

>>4679540
Get cultured, anon. Look at real life people.

>>4697662
I have one point that I find annoying about some of their designs. let's take Korone for example:
>dog ears
>bone hairpin
>collar
>dog paw thing on the collar
>bone patch on the chess
yeah I get it she's a dog. you don't have to design that many ornaments about it, keep it simple. peko is another one having that problem, she has like 10 different rabbit jokes on her design(and she also have two visible pairs of ears so that's another problem).

Decent? Horrible?

>>4707441
The thumbnail looks like a C.H. Greenblatt character. I like it a lot though, care to post more?

>>4707453
Sure thing! And thank you!

>>4699437
cute character anon

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>>4707279
Fuck you and your minimalism faggot
Korone should have even more dog ornaments

>>4697872
OG Starlord
fucking based. NuMarvel designs are cool also, but this one is a classic

>>4708002
Helmet is bitchin

>>4705178
Bumping again.

>>4712520
pretty cool
what's this for, some kind of urban fantasy?

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>>4701252
I like her too but as that anon said, the footwear...

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>>4701252
How would you change the footwear?

>>4714218
Thanks.
Yeah, 20's urban fantasy. Not for anything in particular, I'm just playing around with characters, bits and pieces of the setting and such.

I'm trying to prep this character for working into some steampunk Newgrounds animation shorts (30 sec- 1 minute super short animations), simplifying and cutting out as much unnecessary details to make it less a pain in the ass to traditionally animate.

>>4696705
Pretty hard to freely post character designs when more than half of the thread is way better than you.

>>4699929
Based

>>4699234
Was this robot specifically designed to get raped in a dark alley?

>>4679059
What do you guys think of this?

>>4679094
You thought this thread was going to die didn't you? I'm gonna bump this to keep your shame here for extra long, dickass.

>>4679059 (OP)
What do you guys think of this?

>>4679094
You thought this thread was going to die didn't you? I'm gonna bump this to keep your shame here for extra long, dickass.

I wonder with disfigured characters, how far you can get away with while still having people say "I still would"

>>4722293
If the eyes and hair look appealing and the lower half of the face isn't fatter than the top people will get off to it.

>>4682150
This channel has some good videos on it I think. Hope it's what you are looking for.
https://youtu.be/shgXNMIriaE

Zed the Undead

>>4722501
Her head looks kind of long for her body and her legs seem kind of amorphous. The pose is good but I'd say making the anatomy seem more consistent between that would do a lot of great things for your work.

This does however look like something I'd see in Shantae though

>>4717347
It's good anon. Not a fan of those clothes, but the skill is there

whaddya think? he's supposed to be a tengu-puppet creature

How are these clothes called?, lots of frills, drapery and stuff, I need references for a study

>>4726704
frilly dresses, anon

>>4679059
my main character

>>4687987
his art is pretty nice dude stop projecting.

>>4681568
This is pretty cool, what's it for?

>>4682079
No, these dead people used to look fly. No one posting on this board has ever that fresh. Don't take credit for style you don't have.

>>4682759
Yeah, that's totally why. It's totally the French's and Jews and Black people fault for this, my fellow historically illiterate history buff.

some paper Mario oc's. can i have some feedback

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>>4728712
these are cute, why do they have to be Mario OCs why can't they be their own thing?

>>4728925
they can be there own thing but they are inspired by the Mario power-ups

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