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If you love handcuffs behind the back, in arresting positions, and really good CLOSE-UPS, enjoy my shares. Handcuffs, ropes, even NO bondage; I only focus on women's hands shown behind "PALMS OPEN,"
and showing more femininity. None of this tied "PALMS TOGETHER. Prayer position" nonsense. where is the fun in that? 🤷
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I've been exploring my original characters through art and writing lately thanks to a push from my NaNoWriMo novel, which helped me to discover quite a few new angles in designing Melakim since my very first try:
She's gone from a sort of roguish ninja to the more rugged woodsman she's supposed to be, along with a touch of gender neutrality in her overall design, which came about from discovering in writing that this character would rather be seen as a man to avoid garnering the wrong kind of attention in cities (and among other Hunters, who are mostly competitive males). To my surprise, traditional Japanese archery garb ended up being the most inspiring for Mae here.
I learned from this sheet that the first 10 thumbnails are almost always going to suck because I'm working out all the derivative imagery lingering in my brain. The format was intentionally kept small (400x400 px) to help me resist the temptation to fill in too many details when this is supposed to be a relatively quick exercise to explore rough ideas and character presence.
Gathering reference and letting it all congeal into a nice inspiration pudding before I started sketching this second sheet really helped my process. I got a lot of aid from reading Dynamic Characters: Enhancing Your Character Concepts too.
I was exhausted of ideas by the 24th thumbnail, but it feels good to know I was being thorough! I'm usually not and give up far too soon in developing my characters. This no doubt leads to most of my characters feeling very derivative or too similar to one another, visually, and I am trying to learn to avoid that and to give each of them their own personality.
Pinterest has been GREAT for the aforementiond inspiration pudding. You can see Melakim's inspiration board, which collects many references for archers, tribal tattoos, and anything else that reminds me of her.
Next up! I get to choose the thumbnails I like and make more detailed silhouettes out of them.
My favorites are 7, 12, 13, 19, and 24. What are yours?
More concepts of Mae:
She's gone from a sort of roguish ninja to the more rugged woodsman she's supposed to be, along with a touch of gender neutrality in her overall design, which came about from discovering in writing that this character would rather be seen as a man to avoid garnering the wrong kind of attention in cities (and among other Hunters, who are mostly competitive males). To my surprise, traditional Japanese archery garb ended up being the most inspiring for Mae here.
I learned from this sheet that the first 10 thumbnails are almost always going to suck because I'm working out all the derivative imagery lingering in my brain. The format was intentionally kept small (400x400 px) to help me resist the temptation to fill in too many details when this is supposed to be a relatively quick exercise to explore rough ideas and character presence.
Gathering reference and letting it all congeal into a nice inspiration pudding before I started sketching this second sheet really helped my process. I got a lot of aid from reading Dynamic Characters: Enhancing Your Character Concepts too.
I was exhausted of ideas by the 24th thumbnail, but it feels good to know I was being thorough! I'm usually not and give up far too soon in developing my characters. This no doubt leads to most of my characters feeling very derivative or too similar to one another, visually, and I am trying to learn to avoid that and to give each of them their own personality.
Pinterest has been GREAT for the aforementiond inspiration pudding. You can see Melakim's inspiration board, which collects many references for archers, tribal tattoos, and anything else that reminds me of her.
Next up! I get to choose the thumbnails I like and make more detailed silhouettes out of them.
My favorites are 7, 12, 13, 19, and 24. What are yours?
More concepts of Mae:
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I'm liking 13, 18, and mostly 19. I figure in the woods, you won't get showers, so lots of hair is out(and getting caught on branches) and clothes to stay warm and padded are good too.
22 also looks nice
22 also looks nice