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title: 'How to create a Vtuber Design right! Advice + Ideas'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=8FTqpsg9hzk'
video_id: '8FTqpsg9hzk'
date: 2026-07-28
duration_sec: 501
---

# How to create a Vtuber Design right! Advice + Ideas

> Source: [How to create a Vtuber Design right! Advice + Ideas](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8FTqpsg9hzk)

## Summary

This video offers advice on creating a Vtuber model design that represents your personality, with tips on theme, detail balance, and inspiration. The creator shares personal experience from redesigning their model nine times.

### Key Points

- **Importance of Vtuber design** [0:00] — Your Vtuber design represents you and will be seen daily for years, so it's crucial to get it right.
- **Model should represent personality** [0:37] — Your model should reflect your personality, not just your content. Example: a gremlin personality shouldn't have a edgy model.
- **Incorporate personal likes** [1:31] — Implement clothing styles, colors, aesthetics, and accessories that you like into your design.
- **Importance of a clear theme** [1:50] — A clear theme is crucial; viewers should be able to tell your theme at a glance. Write down elements related to your theme and implement them.
- **Balance details** [2:59] — Balance big, middle, and small details to avoid a plain or overwhelming design. Too many small details can be frustrating to draw.
- **Finding inspiration** [3:50] — Use Pinterest to search for species, elements, and hairstyles. Collect 10-20 photos and create a mood board using apps like Pixar.
- **Ease of drawing and rigging** [5:00] — Design with ease of drawing in mind; avoid elements you struggle with. Consider rigging unless you're not the rigger.
- **Make design recognizable** [6:02] — Use silhouettes, big clothes, unique hairstyles, and tails to stand out. Example: Crushy Oli's asymmetrical skirt and buns.

### Conclusion

The key to a good Vtuber design is authenticity: let your personality shine through a clear theme, balanced details, and a recognizable silhouette. Use inspiration boards and prioritize ease of drawing for long-term satisfaction.

## Transcript

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