Character Creation

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>>3024556
Always have a strong silhouette for your characters.

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>>3024556
Pick a good colour scheme, then design clothes that fit the character's personality. Also, never overdesign, I always tried to keep it simple. Then again, I'm still an amateur, so don't quote me.

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>>3024610
What are your influences? Those designs make me remember something from somewhere but I can't quite put my finger on it

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I don't really have the best advice, but I have some designs I find good that I can share that may inspire you. You can see >>3024604 and >>3024610's advice in it, too.

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>>3024634
The artstyle is just Disney and kemono. The bunny is and generic barbarian while the sheep is Soraka and Karma mix with pic related.

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>>3024556
>What are the sort of things that should be important when drawing your own character from scratch
Don't do it from scratch. Try to bring in as many interesting quirks and details from outside sources - fashion, nature, or otherwise - as is appropriate for the situation.

Don't symbol design any more than you'd symbol draw. Relying on half-remembered design quirks leads to boring, generic, by-the-numbers characters.

>but because it has meaning
That doesn't mean anything. You decide if a design feature has meaning, if it relates to their character or some goal.

Designing characters isn't a by the numbers, step by step thing because so much of it is context-sensitive. I could say make sure you end up with something that looks good, but maybe you're going for an ugly aesthetic. Make sure you like the final result, but maybe you're going for something ugly. Make sure it's memorable, but you're an idiot who only thinks that means stapling on as many snowflake generic features as possible.

Make sure it's appropriate, not derivative unless intentionally subversive and don't be afraid to "lose work" and design characters again from scratch to better fit or subvert an aesthetic.

circles squares and triangles

also original ideas always come from solving problems.

>>3024647
Lol now I love me some 999, but the flannel and capri pants on Junpei are fucking horrible.

I want to fuck a Makoto

Steal.