Character Design

Character Design is one my favorite area. We all are familiar with many classic characters through cartoons, video games, movies, advertising etc.

I found some interesting tips here in the below given site which are greatly helpful in developing a new and innovative character.

Character Design Tips

I have great love for characters such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Tom and Jerry to name a few among many others. Other day I was searching through the web and came across the below link which has some most famous characters mentioned in their list. I found it quite interesting.

Some famous cartoon comic characters

Here is a link below to a blog on Character Design, which I found greatly helpful; giving insights to some of the famous character designers and their classic work.

http://characterdesign.blogspot.com/

I am easily drawn towards the cute characters like the ones appear in children's books / television shows etc. Perhaps this could be the reason why when I decided to take a project focusing on Character Design for my Masters, the Manga drawing style first came to my attention. Initially the cuteness of the Manga characters, for example their big glossy eyes, brilliant hair colors, cell shading etc attracted me towards these drawings. Only recently I decided to dig a bit deep into this style.

Manga are getting increasingly popular these days. Many artists are drawn towards this Japanese style of drawing. Manga style drawings are based on the increasingly popular Japanese comics. There are different kinds of Manga, from fairly realistic to extremely distorted. Most Manga drawings have a few things in common such as the eyes are usually large, emotions are exaggerated and line work styles are considered very important. While reading through articles on the net, I found that the general guideline or advise to draw Manga characters would be to loosely follow the real human anatomy proportions while exaggerating and stylizing the drawings.