[0:00] your video design is one of the most
[0:02] important things when it comes to your
[0:03] content it represents you and it will be
[0:06] a thing you see every day for the next
[0:08] few years until you graduate so today
[0:10] I'm going to tell you how to do that se
[0:12] right and how to make a good character
[0:14] design why should you listen to me I'm
[0:16] an artist and character designer and
[0:19] I've been reading since 2 and a half
[0:20] years and I've rep it nine whole times
[0:23] and there soon will be a 10th one
[0:25] hopefully it will be the last one
[0:26] because with this one I'll make sure
[0:28] that I'm not going to repeat the
[0:29] mistakes every so far and I'll teach
[0:31] them to you so you don't have to reind
[0:33] nine times as 12 or more so first of all
[0:37] your M should represent you as an
[0:40] example if you have a Gman personality
[0:43] don't make your M Dy Mommy okay one of I
[0:45] previous mod models um looked kind of
[0:48] like this it was really edgy and I don't
[0:51] know and well I was just kind of
[0:54] miserable when I had to mod cuz it's
[0:55] just not me I'm not etchy at least not
[0:57] my personality um if also seen another
[1:00] YouTuber say your model should reflect
[1:03] your content but I don't think that's
[1:04] true it should it should represent your
[1:07] personality as an example um ji DOI if
[1:10] you look at her model you already know
[1:12] this a gremlin or at least like a person
[1:14] with a lot of energy like she does
[1:16] gaming content and like why would she
[1:20] make a model based of gaming content it
[1:22] w make sense it will make sense though
[1:25] to make her model based off of her
[1:27] personality um now secondly a thing it
[1:31] will also represent is what you like
[1:33] okay Implement clothing styles colors
[1:36] Aesthetics and accessories that you like
[1:38] into your design as example one of my
[1:40] feing friends Jam peanuts they're um
[1:43] their style is soraa and they like they
[1:46] like rainbows like everything colorful
[1:48] and you can see it on the model thirdly
[1:50] and one of the most important things to
[1:52] consider then designing is your theme
[1:55] it's really really important to have a
[1:57] clear theme you should be able to look
[1:59] at you and be able to tell what thing
[2:01] you have going on except if you're
[2:02] really come to them of or species and or
[2:05] speci species I cannot pronounce the
[2:08] word if you don't know how um I
[2:10] recommend writing down elements that are
[2:12] similar to your theme and then
[2:13] implementing them into your design an
[2:15] example if you are a demon add horns and
[2:18] a tail possibly add small Wings maybe
[2:21] could add fire um how you add fire to
[2:23] model well you could make a small fire
[2:25] pin you could add it to your texture um
[2:29] if you don't know how to do D let me
[2:30] show you an example um I made a design
[2:32] recently and one of the um elements was
[2:35] emotions look at this there was a small
[2:37] hard cut out on the chest there's small
[2:39] tears on the skirt and under the eyes
[2:42] and there's also small hearts on the
[2:43] boots if you can't get with anything
[2:46] yourself you could look up the signs
[2:47] with a similar theme and see what other
[2:49] people did um but don't copy don't copy
[2:52] that's not don't copy also if you don't
[2:55] know how to get inspiration I'll talk
[2:57] about that as well after the next advice
[2:59] which is is balance details sounds kind
[3:02] of dumb but let me explain I think
[3:04] there's three types of details big
[3:06] details middle details and small details
[3:09] kind of like food sizes unless you're
[3:10] American let me explain them with a
[3:12] design I made recently look at this
[3:14] cotton candy girl a big detail will be
[3:17] the skirts or the pigtails a middle siiz
[3:19] detail could be the Ruffles and a small
[3:22] one could be the candy all over there I
[3:24] hope you kind of get what I mean cuz I
[3:26] think it's kind of important to balance
[3:27] this uh cuz if you have too much big
[3:29] details it's going to look plain if it
[3:31] has too many details it's going to be
[3:33] overwhelming and a pain in the as draw
[3:35] and well we do not want to be up charge
[3:37] foric design so listen to me also if you
[3:40] made it this far I assume you like this
[3:42] video so please like because a lot of
[3:44] people forget to do that even though
[3:45] they like the video as I said earlier I
[3:47] was going to talk about how to get
[3:50] inspiration so now I'm going to do that
[3:52] first of all how I get pictures
[3:54] personally um I like to use Twitter
[3:57] because I often come across adoptables
[3:58] or just genuinely character design
[4:00] that's that's my time liit I don't know
[4:02] about yours um so what I really
[4:03] recommend is Pinterest if you don't have
[4:06] it freaking download it okay you missing
[4:08] out
[4:09] buddy what I do is I just search up the
[4:11] species and download some photos like as
[4:13] an example I search up vampire or c/
[4:15] weer or cat character just just stuff
[4:18] like that um and then I also look up the
[4:20] elements and hairstyles and then when
[4:22] you think you have enough photos like
[4:25] maybe 10 to 20 it can be less it can be
[4:27] more it's time to get it a mve
[4:30] board I actually only started using M
[4:33] bars until very recently I always just
[4:36] put the inso in my reference window but
[4:38] now I'm looking but now looking back I
[4:40] don't really recommend it anymore
[4:42] because a lot of times I looked at one
[4:44] photo for too long and forgot the other
[4:47] ones also I use Pixar to make the mood
[4:50] Parts you can add photos really fast
[4:52] it's free and yeah it's just really good
[4:54] so if you don't have an app to make them
[4:55] I I really recommend it uh
[5:00] I'm sorry I'm sick next is how easy it
[5:03] is to grow a character I already
[5:04] mentioned this earlier that you
[5:05] shouldn't have too much spell details
[5:07] because well you might either get
[5:09] upcharged or be frustrated every time
[5:11] you Dy yourself so yeah but it's not
[5:13] just about small details I'm about to
[5:15] say next is mainly going to apply to
[5:17] artist try to make a design easy to draw
[5:20] for you as an example I suck at drawing
[5:24] t-shirts okay so I'm not going to aim to
[5:27] give my character t-shirt or if you
[5:29] don't like drawing white hair maybe you
[5:30] should maybe you shouldn't go with white
[5:31] hair Al I'm just saying this for mental
[5:33] sanity okay if you really want white
[5:35] hair or whatever go with it okay take
[5:37] this little grain of salt pretend you're
[5:39] a white woman that thinks salt spicy
[5:41] that's how much you want to take his
[5:42] advice from me okay okay you got
[5:45] it oh yeah also think about rigging
[5:48] unless you're another rigger then that's
[5:49] not your problem but again it's not that
[5:51] big of a deal at the time recording it's
[5:53] 2024 and there's pretty much TOS
[5:57] everywhere now a last advice for this
[5:59] this video is make your design
[6:02] recognizable you can do that in many
[6:04] many ways one will be the Silhouettes
[6:06] personally my favorite things to make
[6:08] that s out is Big clothes like sleeves
[6:11] big hoods or capes I think we need more
[6:14] ERS of capes I also really love unique
[6:17] hairstyles and big Tails a few video
[6:20] mods that did this really well is first
[6:21] of all crushy Oli CR I'm not sure if I'm
[6:25] pronouncing name right probably not um
[6:27] maybe you've seen her before um she's
[6:29] from whole life and she's a Zombie Beer
[6:31] which you can already tell by looking at
[6:33] her and I I love her design and model
[6:35] overall cuz um what makes her model or
[6:38] like silouettes s out so much first of
[6:40] all is a skirt it's big and it's really
[6:45] um unsymmetrical which is also good um
[6:48] and you should consider that too and
[6:51] also the buns and the SW I love this SW
[6:53] I love that detail one we also a really
[6:56] good Sid is Juju Wenda she is a
[7:00] um I probably pronounce it wrong too
[7:03] he's a small preev um preed YouTu um
[7:07] she's a she's a I think vood doll vood
[7:11] doll beer and I just I love the design
[7:13] um I love the Buns I just I love
[7:16] everything about it it's so cool um I
[7:18] yeah the was made by gentle power who is
[7:21] um a fairly small um character designer
[7:26] here on Twitter um and their designs are
[7:28] really really good you should definitely
[7:29] check them out oh yeah something you
[7:31] could also consider is how much your
[7:33] character stands out among other
[7:34] characters with the same species or
[7:36] theme let's test this out uh my current
[7:39] model is a shark let's search that up on
[7:42] printerest and see how much I would send
[7:44] out this is also just pin um I'm sure if
[7:46] I'd be compared to other viers I would
[7:48] perhaps stand a little less but it
[7:50] doesn't really matter because again I'm
[7:52] Pro I'm probably going to reprint soon
[7:54] it's going to be the 10th time
[7:59] but yeah that's it with this video
[8:01] already um I really hope you found this
[8:03] helpful and that you're now more
[8:05] inspired to make a character sign Al a
[8:07] small reminder that I do commission so
[8:09] if you really don't want to do it
[8:10] yourself I can always be the one to do
[8:11] it for you but for now bye-bye and
[8:14] please show me this bye
[8:18] [Music]