[0:00] So, I want to start off this stream by
[0:02] saying this is just for fun. Okay, we
[0:05] have a small disclaimer here. I'm going
[0:07] to go over a few designs and I'm
[0:09] breaking down a certain pattern I've
[0:11] noticed in a lot of YouTuber designs and
[0:13] a lot of successful VTuber designs. I'm
[0:15] not claiming my VTuber design is
[0:16] successful. Okay, I I have myself in the
[0:19] slides as well because I don't feel
[0:21] comfortable just like breaking other
[0:23] people's designs apart like I did with
[0:25] my own. So, that's just a small
[0:27] disclaimer. I'm not patting myself on
[0:29] the back here. Um, ow. If you're going
[0:31] to follow these steps, it's not
[0:32] guaranteed that you'll have a very
[0:34] successful YouTuber design. And if you
[0:36] are not following the steps, it can
[0:38] still happen that you're going to pop
[0:40] off big. And, you know, please don't
[0:41] take this the wrong way. Please don't
[0:43] twist my words. Please don't say I like
[0:46] claim to like, okay, have a set of rules
[0:48] you have to follow. But I feel like this
[0:50] can be like an interesting thing to go
[0:52] over and keep in mind cuz I've noticed a
[0:55] bunch of times that not everybody is
[0:56] like they they they sometimes don't know
[0:58] where to start or what to keep in mind
[1:00] when they want to design a YouTuber
[1:01] design. I've seen people just doing I
[1:03] don't know a persona and um then they're
[1:05] like confused why nobody you know wants
[1:08] uh to draw their design and it's like
[1:10] listen I get it because I also have a
[1:13] bad design example [music] done by
[1:15] myself at the end of the slide and I'm
[1:17] going to break down why this design is
[1:19] bad for a YouTuber but not necessarily
[1:21] bad designing in itself. Okay, so design
[1:24] can be good but it's just not the right
[1:26] medium. So let's begin. Number one,
[1:28] please keep the medium in mind. And in
[1:31] order for me to break down how to keep
[1:33] the medium in mind, okay, we're going to
[1:35] break down game characters. We have
[1:37] these characters. And don't get me
[1:39] wrong, they are amazing character
[1:40] designs. They have a lot of detail, a
[1:41] lot of culture detail in there, but it
[1:44] doesn't mean that they necessarily work
[1:46] for streaming, okay? Genshin has
[1:48] something in their characters that is
[1:50] intended for gameplay. And you notice
[1:52] that with the back of the design. Every
[1:55] character's back has a very detailed
[1:56] design or something going on that is
[1:59] important for the character to be
[2:00] viewed, you know, because most you see
[2:03] from them is from the backside because
[2:04] you're running as them and then you only
[2:06] see the character's backside. That's why
[2:08] you also have sometimes hair from a
[2:10] long-haired Genchin character that is
[2:11] split in the middle only so you can see
[2:13] the um what's it called? The vision.
[2:15] [laughter]
[2:16] But but yeah, um this design is very
[2:19] detailed, but also his colors fall very
[2:21] flat, which is something we'll notice
[2:23] when we go over the color palette thingy
[2:24] later. Um so it works for, you know,
[2:27] gaming, but it doesn't really work for
[2:29] streaming cuz you have so much [ __ ]
[2:31] going on, you don't know where to look.
[2:33] And same goes for Jean Lee. Like he has
[2:35] so much going on down here with his like
[2:37] pattern and everything, but if he were
[2:39] to be a YouTuber, everything would be
[2:41] cut off. And he doesn't really have a
[2:43] very recognizable silhouette as well.
[2:44] like it's just a dude with some hair. So
[2:47] that's why I'm saying keep the medium in
[2:49] mind. Your design isn't necessarily bad
[2:52] just because it's quote unquote bad for
[2:54] streaming if you get what I'm saying.
[2:56] Okay, because these character designs
[2:57] are very good. These are good character
[2:59] designs, but I just don't think they
[3:00] would work as good um for streaming.
[3:03] [music]
[3:04] And uh let's move on. Okay, so let's
[3:07] break down why this character works for
[3:09] streaming. First of all, she has a
[3:12] coherent color palette. Okay, we have
[3:14] the white and the black as base colors.
[3:17] And then we have puppy colors like um
[3:19] the pink and the yellow that give some
[3:22] sort of recognition. Okay, then we have
[3:25] iconic thunderbolts. I think that's what
[3:26] they're called, you know. But basically,
[3:28] her character works fine for uh
[3:31] streaming because you have a theme going
[3:34] on. She's following said theme. And even
[3:36] if you cut off this part here, you still
[3:39] see stuff that's going on for streaming
[3:41] without having to rely on the design. In
[3:44] the bottom, you have her twin tails that
[3:47] work very well for streaming. Um, you
[3:50] have these little bows that are also
[3:51] very recognizable. Yeah, we we love Leah
[3:54] here. Okay. Um, recently she also got
[3:56] more hair cuts. Uh, like she she got
[3:58] like toggles, but I didn't get the
[3:59] pictures for that, so I'm very sorry.
[4:01] And each of them are working very much
[4:03] fine for streaming. Like she's not
[4:05] overloading her design with too much
[4:07] detail because the thing is you also
[4:09] have to keep riggers in mind. Okay. Is
[4:11] that easy to read? I'm not a rigger but
[4:14] it's more so doable than doing all the
[4:16] things on DLO's uniform before cuz she
[4:19] doesn't have too many cluttered things
[4:21] on there. The design is flowing. The
[4:23] open shoulders break it up a little bit
[4:25] and it's just it it seems balanced is
[4:28] what I'm saying. Okay. Anyways, this uh
[4:30] first part will make more sense later
[4:32] on, but I'm going to go over the
[4:34] silhouette test now. So, what is the
[4:35] silhouette test? Basically, whose VTuber
[4:38] are these? Oh, wait. I'm in the way. Um,
[4:40] can you recognize these VTubers? Type in
[4:42] chat. Type in chat if you can recognize
[4:45] them. One in here is like very cute.
[4:47] Anyways, why do these silhouettes work?
[4:49] Why can you recognize these characters
[4:51] based on their silhouettes alone? You do
[4:53] not see any colors. You don't see any um
[4:56] details. You only see the shapes. These
[4:58] YouTubers, this one very
[5:00] unintentionally, worked with shapes to
[5:03] generate a design that will be
[5:04] recognizable. So, if you want to work on
[5:07] a VTuber and you have no idea where to
[5:08] start, [music] maybe start by just
[5:10] drawing a blackout silhouette. Just
[5:12] like, you know, go in, zoom out of the
[5:14] canvas, and just work with shapes.
[5:17] Shapes that you think will be
[5:18] recognizable and then later fill fill in
[5:21] the details. Okay? I feel like not many
[5:23] people keep that in mind or many people
[5:25] overlook that you should work with
[5:27] shapes in order to, you know, get a
[5:31] recognizable design going. Okay, so
[5:34] let's move on. The 40% rule. The 40%
[5:38] rule essentially ties in with the medium
[5:40] of streaming. Keep in mind like what are
[5:42] you seeing of me right now? You do not
[5:44] see my legs. You don't even see my torso
[5:46] really. Um, you only see at best 30 to
[5:50] 40% of me. Okay, so you see this
[5:53] YouTuber here, she has a very
[5:55] recognizable silhouette. Um, she would
[5:58] definitely pass the silhouette test as
[5:59] well because not only does she have
[6:01] these uh cyber bunny ear thingies and
[6:04] the rings on her hair, she also has the
[6:06] cables. So, that definitely works very
[6:09] well [music] um as a recognizable
[6:11] silhouette. And she also has these
[6:13] things that are coming off from her
[6:15] jacket which makes her overall
[6:17] silhouette very recognizable. But the
[6:19] focus of the design definitely lays
[6:21] here. That doesn't mean that this part
[6:23] of her design is boring cuz no, she put
[6:25] also a lot of thought into this uh part
[6:27] of her design. But the most important
[6:29] part of her design, this here is already
[6:31] very recognizable. She has a good
[6:33] balance like cut here with the with the
[6:35] jacket and then it breaks open to uh
[6:38] reveal like a little bit of titty cuz
[6:40] titty is very important. Basically, you
[6:42] have to focus the important and or the
[6:45] very interesting parts of your design on
[6:48] this part, the part that will people see
[6:50] the most often. I have one more example
[6:53] just because I like showing more than
[6:55] one example. But here we have the same
[6:57] thing. He would definitely pass the
[6:58] silhouette test cuz um this like the
[7:02] bunny ears and the the piercings and the
[7:04] earring he's got going on. Very
[7:06] recognizable. And again, he also has
[7:08] this um demon tail thingy. also very
[7:11] recognizable. It doesn't have too much
[7:13] going on on the leg department, which is
[7:15] fine because you don't always see the
[7:17] legs. All the action is playing here.
[7:19] Your legs can still be fancy, okay, but
[7:22] nobody's going to look at your legs when
[7:24] you stream. I'm sorry. So, now let's go
[7:26] over to color palettes. Color palettes
[7:28] is a little bit of a tricky one because
[7:30] this is not necessarily a rule you have
[7:32] to follow, okay? Like all the others,
[7:34] you don't have to do anything, I say.
[7:36] But basically, it's hard to find the
[7:37] sweet spot. So, I just figured I'll go
[7:40] over stuff I've noticed a lot of
[7:42] YouTubers, a lot of popular and
[7:44] successful YouTubers do. That is Inami
[7:46] Yoki. She's very cute. She recently had
[7:48] a red with this design. Before that, she
[7:50] had a different design, but the
[7:53] important part about her new design is
[7:55] that she still kept the same color
[7:57] palette. More or less. She never really
[7:59] stayed uh strayed away from the cyan and
[8:01] the orange. That was like always part of
[8:03] her design. And she also always had like
[8:05] white in her design. Um, so that's like
[8:08] very interesting to note that if you do
[8:10] have a color palette, it's best if you
[8:12] should, you know, kind of stick to it
[8:15] throughout your variations of designs.
[8:16] Obviously, you can do a 180 if you want
[8:19] to, but you don't need to. But
[8:20] basically, I broke down some of the
[8:22] color palette things I noticed as some
[8:24] YouTubers do. So, we have like two
[8:26] neutral colors, which is the brown and
[8:28] the white. These uh work as a base, as a
[8:31] neutral base. Then you have the accent
[8:33] color which is the gold cuz she has a
[8:35] lot of gold accents in her design. And
[8:37] then you have the two to three poppy
[8:39] colors that work to bring out um the
[8:42] life in the design because I normally
[8:44] really dislike orange as a color. Okay,
[8:46] but I cannot imagine her design without
[8:48] the orange and I feel like she made it
[8:50] work. She made me like the color. This
[8:52] is how good she was with the color
[8:54] palette. Guys, can you imagine the power
[8:56] this YouTuber holds if they can make you
[8:58] like a color? That's the importance of
[9:00] color palettes. Okay, I'm not I'm not
[9:02] trying to pat myself on the back here,
[9:03] okay? But I follow a similar um pattern
[9:06] of having two neutral colors as a base.
[9:08] I have the white as a neutral color. My
[9:10] design is mostly white. And then I have
[9:13] the red, the pinkish red and the blue as
[9:15] a poppy color working for itself cuz I
[9:18] have a lot of red in my design. Um even
[9:21] though this is my hair color, it's still
[9:23] more of an accent to the whole design.
[9:25] Okay, it works as an accent color, more
[9:26] so as a puppy color. And this one also
[9:29] has the same eye color as my same color
[9:32] as my eye. Okay, so we have a very
[9:34] balanced design. But let me tell you, my
[9:36] design wasn't always as balanced. And
[9:38] we're going to go over how I improved my
[9:40] design cuz it wasn't always that good.
[9:43] Okay [laughter]
[9:44] I really like my design. Okay, let me
[9:46] let me have that. I found out it's the
[9:48] best thing to limit yourself to max six
[9:51] colors as main colors. Obviously, your
[9:53] um small thingies uh your small uh
[9:56] details can have different colors, but
[9:58] your main colors, the one you always see
[10:01] should be kind of limited to at least
[10:03] six. Because if you have a bunch of
[10:05] colors going on, you're going to throw
[10:07] your entire design off balance. And here
[10:09] we have a good design example of
[10:11] somebody who doesn't have a lot of color
[10:13] variations going on, but it's still very
[10:15] balanced. She's not overdoing it. She
[10:17] doesn't even use a lot of different
[10:18] colors on different parts of a design
[10:20] like we saw before with Yoki cuz she has
[10:22] a brown and orange in the middle and
[10:24] then blue on top. And she doesn't even
[10:26] have that. But it still works very well.
[10:28] And again, her design is like very
[10:30] balanced cuz all the action is like
[10:31] going on here. She has those little
[10:34] octopus ear thingies. Then she has that
[10:36] bow here that uh has like a special
[10:39] pattern on it that is very cute. She
[10:40] could make merch out of this, okay, if
[10:42] she wanted to. Like it it's very
[10:44] marketable. She has the black base. Then
[10:47] she has that blue here that pops up and
[10:49] breaks up the design a little bit. And
[10:51] then she just has very neutral legs
[10:52] because nobody cares about your legs.
[10:54] And then we have Nemo. She is a very
[10:56] good artist by the way. Check her out.
[10:58] She recently started streaming as well.
[10:59] Her design also very balanced cuz you
[11:02] have the blue as the middle color and
[11:03] this one is like an accent and then she
[11:06] has the puppy color being her red cuz it
[11:08] like breaks up the design again and just
[11:11] gives a splash of color. collects have
[11:13] mainly white stockings going on with uh
[11:16] a small pattern in it. I'm very sorry I
[11:18] couldn't show it here, but it's like
[11:20] very balanced. Um and again, it's
[11:22] another neutral color to put pull the
[11:25] entire design together. Okay. Um so
[11:27] yeah, about color palettes, long story
[11:30] short, limit yourself to neutral base
[11:32] color, one or two poppy colors, maybe
[11:35] even three if you want to go that far,
[11:37] and an accent color. Don't go overboard
[11:38] with the colors, okay? um cuz it can
[11:41] throw your design off balance very
[11:42] quick. Next part, your theme, aesthetic
[11:45] or niche. If you're going to become a
[11:47] YouTuber, you know, you want to go for
[11:49] something. Some people want to go for a
[11:51] theme. In my in my case, it was mentally
[11:54] ill/ nurse. [laughter]
[11:56] Jokes aside, jokes aside. Okay. Um my
[11:58] overarching theme is uh nurse. Okay. So,
[12:02] there we have it. Uh Manha nurse. Two
[12:05] things. Okay. Let's just show the
[12:07] examples. So we have D cell uh 029 and
[12:12] we have Raza. So what we can discuss
[12:15] about them the theme you see here it's
[12:18] Tamagotchi. Uh she has the Tamagotchi
[12:20] ears. She has the egg thingies in her
[12:22] hair. She has a belt full of Tamagotchis
[12:24] a Tamagotchi wrist wrist watch. I cannot
[12:28] speak. So her theme basically Y2K
[12:31] Tamagotchi. Very recognizable for her.
[12:34] Easy zombie nurse. She's not just a
[12:37] nurse. Okay. She has uh missing body
[12:40] parts that were stitched together. She
[12:42] has ripped up clothes, missing eye,
[12:45] zombie nurse. Easy. Two things. And for
[12:47] her, plague doctor. Very easy to
[12:50] recognize. Okay. Plague and doctor. The
[12:52] mask. Even without the mask, I feel like
[12:54] you can see that she has a medical theme
[12:56] going on, which is medieval because of
[12:58] the sleeves. The sleeves are very
[12:59] medieval themed. Um and you have that
[13:02] hairstyle. I don't know how it's called.
[13:04] Also ties in very well. um you can just
[13:07] recognize it immediately because also
[13:09] her bow here has that plague doctor
[13:11] thingy. So, you know, she she has some
[13:14] gothic [ __ ] going on. Okay, but um to
[13:16] call back to other YouTubers, you
[13:18] probably know Ylesh her uh VTuber Uni.
[13:23] Easy. You recognize she's an Ooni. Uh
[13:25] then we have Bells from earlier. You
[13:28] know she's a chaotic rat. Okay, you you
[13:31] see her um design is chaotic and she's
[13:34] red. you know, she has to do with chaos
[13:36] and, you know, rats. It's like two
[13:37] things. Um because sometimes I've seen
[13:40] people being like, "Oh, I'm an evil
[13:41] overlord, demon queen, cat, alien, idol,
[13:44] uh but also a gamer, and like you have
[13:48] too many themes going on if you go for
[13:50] that. Try to limit yourself to like two
[13:52] or three themes max. Um don't go
[13:54] overboard." I saw another YouTuber, her
[13:56] her thingy is being a bat, and she chose
[13:59] a specific breed of bats, I guess. I
[14:03] forgot the name, but basically if you
[14:05] want to be a catgirl, you can be a
[14:07] normal ass catgirl or you can choose a
[14:09] specific breed of cat that has a
[14:11] specific pattern on their back and then
[14:13] you can be this specific breed of cat.
[14:16] Okay, this is how you can uh choose a
[14:18] niche inside a very broad design. So you
[14:21] don't always have to combine it with
[14:22] something if you don't want to. But I
[14:24] would uh recommend you to at least go
[14:26] for two things so you switch it up a
[14:28] little. Limit yourself. Do not go
[14:31] overboard. Sometimes less is more. Okay?
[14:34] You can still have a niche even if your
[14:36] design is broad. Cuz you may have seen a
[14:38] lot of nurse YouTubers out there, but
[14:40] how many of them are also zombies? Or
[14:42] you may have seen a lot of zombie
[14:44] YouTubers out there, but how many of
[14:45] them are also nurses, you know? Okay.
[14:47] Also, very important, please, please,
[14:50] please, please, please, please keep fan
[14:52] artists in mind. Okay, you need to keep
[14:55] fan artists in mind. Is your design good
[14:57] to be fan arted? Yes or no? Obviously,
[15:00] don't sacrifice your design for fan
[15:02] artists. But fan artists are the
[15:04] backbone of BTubers. How do you easily
[15:07] get recognition by seeing the [ __ ]
[15:09] design floating around the internet?
[15:11] Okay, so if everybody's drawing you,
[15:13] okay, everybody will at least recognize
[15:15] you even if they don't watch you. Okay,
[15:16] they they know, okay, I've seen this
[15:18] [ __ ] before, you know? So, yeah, fan
[15:20] art is very important. But let's go over
[15:22] it together, okay? Let's go over it a
[15:25] little. How beginner friendly is your
[15:26] design? Is it too complex for people to
[15:29] draw and will it resonate with people?
[15:32] Okay, I'm gonna take furries as an
[15:33] example here. Please don't hate me. But
[15:35] basically, if you gonna become a furry
[15:37] YouTuber, you have to keep in mind that
[15:39] furry is not for everybody and you will
[15:40] lose a large chunk of people who would
[15:43] maybe find you interesting just because
[15:44] of how your model looks. And that's just
[15:46] a sad reality, okay? You can have the
[15:48] most interesting personality, but if
[15:50] people are not into furry and you have a
[15:52] furry design, chances are they're not
[15:53] even going to give you the time to check
[15:54] you out. [music] And I'm not saying you
[15:56] have to like become a humanoid YouTuber.
[15:58] Do whatever you want, okay? But keep in
[16:00] mind that maybe some designs resonate
[16:04] more with people than others, okay?
[16:05] Also, another thing, if something about
[16:07] your design is forgotten or if somebody
[16:10] doesn't draw it, will it still be
[16:11] recognizable? That is very important cuz
[16:14] imagine your entire design is based off
[16:16] only um with your outfit. And if you
[16:19] then change the outfit, nobody will
[16:21] recognize you anymore. That would be
[16:22] [ __ ] sucky. Okay. So, keep in mind
[16:25] that even if somebody draws you in a
[16:27] different outfit or if something is
[16:28] forgotten about your outfit that it will
[16:31] still be recognizable. I have Okay, so
[16:33] listen. I've received over 300 fan arts
[16:36] in my time of being um of having this
[16:41] design around. Okay, I have so many fan
[16:43] arts and obviously people forgot some
[16:46] part of my design. Sometimes people
[16:47] forgot my heart. Sometimes people will
[16:49] even forget my hair dangness. Okay. Um,
[16:52] people can forget stuff. Sometimes
[16:54] people forget the colorful hair strands
[16:56] in my hair. Okay. But my design is still
[16:59] recognizable because of other stuff I've
[17:01] included in that design. Um, that's not
[17:04] a weird flex. It's not me flexing that's
[17:06] accumulating of many, many years of
[17:09] having this design around. Okay, this
[17:10] design exists since uh 2015.
[17:14] Okay, it's been Oh my god.
[17:18] Sheesh. So,
[17:22] I have this one outfit. Okay, look how
[17:26] [ __ ] detailed this is. Is it a cute
[17:28] ass outfit? I think so. Yes. Um, but
[17:31] it's it's not good for fan arts. It's
[17:34] not good for vtubing. Um, the artist and
[17:37] rigger who would have to do that would
[17:39] probably die of a stroke if they ever
[17:41] had to risk so many [ __ ] physics on
[17:43] so many [ __ ] hair clips. But yeah,
[17:45] um, there we have the test. Am I still
[17:48] recognizable? Look at me. No color,
[17:51] still recognizable. No outfit, still
[17:54] recognizable. Different hairstyle, I
[17:57] would say still recognizable. This is
[17:59] basically what I've uh tried to teach
[18:02] you guys. Um your color palette is
[18:04] important, but your BTuber needs to work
[18:06] without it. Same for your outfit. Your
[18:08] outfit is important, but your BTuber has
[18:10] to work naked as well, okay? Or else it
[18:12] might be difficult. And different
[18:13] hairstyle, it still should be
[18:16] recognizable as you, okay? And then we
[18:18] have variations. And again, I take
[18:20] Melissa Sanati as example cuz this is
[18:23] her original design, okay? And she has
[18:25] these very iconic bunnies in her hair.
[18:28] And the thing with her is if you were to
[18:30] draw her just n bunny, you would think,
[18:34] okay, that's like a normal blonde girl.
[18:37] Okay. But the thing is she always keeps
[18:39] some sort of pink in her design. She
[18:41] also um for this design um [music] she
[18:44] has the bunny ears in every iteration of
[18:46] her design. in every variation. Um, she
[18:49] has that fan thingy on both of her
[18:51] designs. It's not drawn on the ref pups
[18:52] for whatever reason, but she has it on
[18:54] her design. And the thing with this
[18:55] design, which I personally thought was
[18:57] really, really good, the ubi and the ubi
[18:59] do is literally mimicking that [ __ ]
[19:02] bunny. The ubi do mimicking the the eyes
[19:05] of the bunny and the ubi itself
[19:07] mimicking the bunny. You can't see it in
[19:09] that angle, but she still has that bunny
[19:11] as a hair clip. And this right here is a
[19:13] nod to her fan base cuz this is the mask
[19:15] of her uh sensei. But yeah, variations
[19:18] of your design should also work. So keep
[19:20] that in mind when you design your uh
[19:21] character that it can also work without
[19:23] the main outfit. And then design
[19:25] aspects. Now we're going to rip into my
[19:27] old design. Okay, this is what you all
[19:29] have been waiting for. So here we have
[19:32] my very old design that was 2016. Um it
[19:36] was a nurse uniform. I didn't have any
[19:40] good recognizable [ __ ] going on other
[19:43] than my hair. Um, keep in mind the eye
[19:45] color is still the same. Very bland.
[19:47] It's just white with a little bit of
[19:49] pink here. It's it's it's very one
[19:52] color. It's It's not very balanced at
[19:54] all. You don't have any accent color.
[19:56] You don't have anything that catches
[19:58] your eye. And of course, I overloaded my
[20:00] designs with a bunch of different hair
[20:01] clips. Hair clips that have nothing to
[20:03] do with my current like with being a
[20:05] nurse. Um the colors, why why did I put
[20:08] orange and and purple and green in my
[20:11] design? Like it's it's just it doesn't
[20:13] fit. It just doesn't fit. Not
[20:15] recognizable at all. Just not a good
[20:16] design. But here we have a little bit
[20:19] better. Okay, we we finally added some
[20:21] pop to the design. We added some
[20:23] guarders that made it a little bit
[20:24] better. Uh we added a weapon belt
[20:27] because of course I needed a weapon
[20:28] belt. But is it good for be tubing? No.
[20:31] No, it's not. It's very like bottom
[20:34] heavy. You have so much [ __ ] going on
[20:36] here. Very overloaded. Uh, also I have a
[20:38] different kind of blue that I have with
[20:39] my eyes. It's just two different kinds
[20:42] of blue. Then we have pink and pink
[20:45] again and then red. It's It's not
[20:47] balanced at all. So, what changed?
[20:51] There we go. So, this one was not bad,
[20:53] but this is how we where we are now.
[20:55] Okay. Um, we still have like we we we
[20:58] improved a lot. First of all, we unified
[21:00] the colors a little bit more. uh went
[21:03] for more puppy color. We got rid of all
[21:05] that [ __ ] [laughter]
[21:07] Um it's it's more minimalistic, but it
[21:09] still has the same vibes, if you know
[21:11] what I mean. So, let's zoom in a little.
[21:13] Okay, so first step, we decluttered my
[21:16] hair. We got rid of all that random
[21:18] [ __ ] cuz it was like literally so
[21:20] cluttered and we made it easy. We have
[21:23] two main things. It's one bandit, one
[21:25] cross. Very easy. Also, look at my eyes.
[21:28] Uh that color was unified to be more in
[21:30] that color. It's more harmonizing with
[21:32] my um hair. The hair strands are also
[21:35] more balanced out. We We just like this
[21:38] a little bit more. Okay. Also, the Hoga
[21:40] is way thicker. Um I guess that depends
[21:42] on the art style a little bit as well,
[21:44] but this little tiny thing is just What
[21:47] is that? That can be plugged out and
[21:48] removed and nobody would notice. And
[21:50] this here, if you plug it out, I die. Um
[21:53] same with the arms. Okay, you have like
[21:55] this stuff here that implies some stuff
[21:58] and we just made it a little bit more
[22:00] cohesive. Okay, we even added a little
[22:01] bit of purple, but it's not overwhelming
[22:03] in my design. But yeah, it still brings
[22:05] the same cross point across without
[22:08] being too cluttered and too full of
[22:10] [ __ ] Okay, another thing we did, we
[22:12] uh because of all the details that were
[22:14] omitted, we were able to make these
[22:17] things here um the the guards thicker.
[22:20] Um they're like now wider and balance
[22:23] out the design more. We also completely
[22:24] got rid of the buttons. So, that's also
[22:27] something because the buttons were just
[22:28] not needed if you think about it. Uh,
[22:30] and same for the legs. We unified the
[22:32] design a little bit. Instead of making
[22:34] these uh into band-aids, we now have a
[22:36] bandage design going on. We made it the
[22:38] same color as my eyes. It's not a
[22:40] different type of blue anymore that
[22:41] comes out of literally nowhere. We got
[22:43] rid of my weapon belt, which it's okay.
[22:46] I'm not allowed to have weapons on
[22:47] Twitch. Um [laughter]
[22:50] Um, nobody needs to see where I store my
[22:52] syringes, okay? I still have them. And
[22:55] we just, you know, got rid of the pink
[22:56] in that here too. We just replaced it
[22:58] with the red because why do we need two
[23:00] colors on the leg? So yeah, we just
[23:01] decluttered my design. It's now more
[23:03] harmonizing. And now now on to a bad
[23:05] design example. So this is my art. I can
[23:08] [ __ ] on it. This is not a bad character
[23:10] design for the medium it's intended to
[23:12] be in. But it would be a very bad
[23:14] character design for Vtubing. Cuz the
[23:16] thing is her silhouette, she she just
[23:18] simply fails the silhouette test. She
[23:20] would not fail it if her hair hands were
[23:22] like out. Okay, then she [music] would
[23:23] not fail it. But if her hair hands have
[23:25] to be permanently out for her to be
[23:27] recognizable, she would not work for
[23:29] streaming because she would cover the
[23:30] entire [ __ ] stream with her hair
[23:31] hands. That is like not good for Vubing.
[23:34] Um, also a color palette is uninspired
[23:36] if it comes to V2. It's literally just
[23:37] bluish black plus red. Nobody gives a
[23:40] [ __ ] about this. Nothing stands out
[23:41] about this. Like don't get me wrong, I
[23:43] like the design, okay? And she works in
[23:46] the story she's in. Cuz the thing is
[23:47] she's for my own story, okay? Um, she's
[23:50] intended to blend into the background.
[23:52] She's not intended to stand out. Her
[23:54] abilities is what have her like make her
[23:57] stand out in the plot and they are
[23:59] revealed later. So, she has to fall
[24:01] under the radar. So, in that sense, she
[24:03] works for my uh story. She works for the
[24:05] plot I've written. She would not work
[24:07] for Vtubing. She's failing the
[24:08] Silhouette test. She is failing the the
[24:11] 40% rule because she has maybe 20% going
[24:14] on here and 0% going on here. And if she
[24:17] has something going on here, she's not
[24:18] good for streaming. So, she also fails
[24:20] the medium test. She is easy to fan art,
[24:23] I guess, if you don't draw her hair
[24:25] hands. So, I guess she excels in that
[24:28] department, but everything else
[24:29] basically not really good. Not really
[24:31] good for YouTubing. So, let's conclude
[24:34] this stream, shall we? Keep in mind,
[24:36] your character will be used for
[24:37] streaming as medium. So, don't design
[24:39] something that will hinder the stream
[24:41] from being seen, aka call back to the
[24:44] hair, hands we just saw. Work with
[24:46] shapes, okay? to construct a silhouette
[24:47] silhouette that works and will be
[24:48] that works and will be recognizable even
[24:49] recognizable even without colors or
[24:50] without colors or characteristics shown.
[24:50] characteristics shown. Try to
[24:52] Try to incorporate shapes into your
[24:52] incorporate shapes into your design to
[24:54] design to make it stand out. Focus on
[24:54] make it stand out. Focus on the top half
[24:56] the top half of your design. Don't make
[24:56] of your design. Don't make it bottom
[24:58] it bottom heavy while the top stays
[24:58] heavy while the top stays empty. Okay?
[25:00] empty. Okay? The top has something to
[25:01] The top has something to have going on
[25:03] have going on there that makes people
[25:03] there that makes people want to look at
[25:04] want to look at it. And remember to go
[25:05] it. And remember to go for a balanced
[25:06] for a balanced color palette. Try to
[25:07] color palette. Try to incorporate a
[25:08] incorporate a neutral base color. Let me
[25:09] neutral base color. Let me just go in
[25:11] just go in here so you guys can
[25:11] here so you guys can screenshot if you
[25:12] screenshot if you want. So I'm going to
[25:13] want. So I'm going to become very tiny.
[25:14] become very tiny. to construct a
[25:15] Try to work with neutral base colors and
[25:17] decide on one to two poppy colors um to
[25:20] help your design stand out a little bit
[25:22] and make it recognizable. Because if I
[25:24] were to show you a color palette, the
[25:26] one of Hako's belts, okay? If I were to
[25:28] show you the red with the yellow, the
[25:29] white, the can, and the black, people
[25:32] would probably associate it with ba. So,
[25:35] your color palette also helps you and be
[25:37] recognizable. But don't only rely on
[25:39] colors to be recognizable. Okay? Make
[25:41] sure your theme is clear. So, [laughter]
[25:43] try to limit yourself and don't make
[25:45] your character a combination of 50,000
[25:48] themes at once. Okay? Remember, you can
[25:50] always go for upgrades um later on with,
[25:53] you know, like redbies with different
[25:55] lure um where you have some uh changes
[25:58] to your design. You don't always have to
[26:00] incorporate everything you like in your
[26:02] first design. You can decide on one to
[26:04] two things you like and then go for reds
[26:07] for the other stuff that maybe would
[26:09] clash with your uh current theme. Make
[26:11] sure to balance uh the details of your
[26:13] design. Keep in mind more is not always
[26:16] better. Sometimes less is more and less
[26:18] details doesn't equal it has to be
[26:21] boring. Okay? Keep a fan artist in mind.
[26:23] The vital point of your career, the more
[26:25] fan art you receive, the more viral you
[26:27] can actually go. So yeah, that was
[26:29] basically it. Um do what makes you happy
[26:31] in your design. I just hope that this
[26:34] stuff um can help people keep some
[26:37] certain things in mind when they design
[26:39] because um many people don't really know
[26:42] where to start when it comes to like a
[26:43] Ver design. They don't know what to look
[26:45] out for and design I don't know a
[26:47] persona that is like um not really
[26:50] having the the medium of tubing in mind
[26:52] and then they get disappointed that it
[26:53] doesn't really resonate with a lot of
[26:55] people because it's something very
[26:57] personal to them. Um, my design actually
[26:59] got a lot of backlash uh in the
[27:01] beginning because some people told me
[27:04] they are totally not a fan of the theme.
[27:07] Uh, they love me but they don't really
[27:09] like my design. And it was really
[27:10] crushing for me to hear at first. I was
[27:12] like, man, what what it mean, you know?
[27:15] Um, you should also try to not take this
[27:17] stuff too hard because in the end, you
[27:20] have to like your own design, okay? Um,
[27:23] you have to make sure you are
[27:25] comfortable with your design because in
[27:27] the end it'll kind of represent you
[27:29] going forward as a YouTuber. So don't
[27:31] really listen to other people when they
[27:34] say, "Oh, I don't really like your
[27:35] design, blah blah blah blah blah." And
[27:36] you're like, "Oh, but but I like it."
[27:38] Okay? Cuz you will find the people who
[27:40] like your design, okay? You'll find you
[27:42] people. It's just what I wanted to say.
[27:45] So yeah. Uh, basically, ignore
[27:47] everything I said. Do whatever you want.
[27:49] Go a [ __ ] Have fun.
[27:55] Heat. Heat.