How to make your character designs more interesting
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Published 2024-04-08
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00:00 - Intro
00:29 - Perspective fix
02:50 - Design details
05:57 - Make your designs functional
Featured artist: twitter.com/yodogama
Edited by @SkysagiOP
BGM by Christopher Larken
Collosia - Greenpath (Hollow Knight Lo-Fi)
emphase - Reflections (Hollow Knight Lo-fi)
emphase - Queen's Garden (Hollow Knight Lo-fi)
releya - Kingdom's Edge (Hollow Knight Lo-fi)
Hollow Knight - White Palace (Slow Remix - Lo-fi Piano)
All Comments (21)
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really like how this video can basically be summed up as "have good fundamentals --> Win"
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0:52 i dont know how or why, but felt a new brain wrinkle form when i saw this. You managed to simplify perspective on the human body to much so that i was able to finally get a grasp of it after years of struggling, so thanks a lot pikat
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honestly this is such an underrated channel, its legit perfect for me
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I really love how you critique character design without 'Roasting' them! I know a lot of people like the roast approach for comedic purposes but this truly ads so much more value to the advice! ❤we need more people like this!
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I feel like it's been difficult to find good art critiques recently. One that is kind, thoughtful, and not completely drowning in bias. I really like this one because you managed to make the character feel like themself while also being more polished. All your advice was very useful, as well, and was worded in a way that's unlikely to confuse or mislead new artists. Good video and good critique :)
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The original pose had more energy and made the overall shape more interesting and I prefere the bare feet, makes him more animalistic. The rest was nice.
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I really like your character critiques 😊
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I think another thing that could have been adjusted are the colours because most of them looked relativley the same except for the hair, horns and tail.
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Bro I remember you doing thatpunchkid thumbnails, sorry for losing your job, your videos are really great keep it up fella
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Those simple and short tips/reasons for adding or changing x part of this design did more to help me understand character design than some other lengthier in-depth videos i've tried watching about character design (and perspective) xD. Will definitely sub and check out your other videos.
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Tell Yodogama the pen nib tail was a super cool design element!
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I love seeing people's OCs but I can't make one myself. I always get washed over with a wave of cringe and I can't help it😭
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Holy cow it went from a great drawing to being alive
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Hollow knight music is the best ❤
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Insane design glow-up, I hope your channel gets bigger soon :)
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i can watch these all day
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This is awesome! Love videos like this, character design is so interesting to me. You can really see how you took the essence of the design and 'amped it up' in a way, it was already really cool but it's defo even more interesting by the end. Thanks for such a neat video, I hope you do more!
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Adding that brush did so much for the design
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I do think the outstretched arm pose has more action to it, making it look like he is unscrolling the map.
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I love all the advice here. I think there is def some stuff here I can improve on too. Also the lofi HK ost is such a vibe!
