there are two ways. And doing them both at the same time is ok. -draw random shapes, and do you're best to make them look cool. Put faces on them, or turn them into head of characters. They all suck at first, but the more you do it the better you get. It just takes time. -Go on google or scope around here for characters you like and copy them. Think about the aspects and styles you gravitate towards. Mix and match until eventually you have your own style. -esh
Ha Ha. Go for it. Don't sweat biting though. Even shakespear said to be great one must stand on the shoulders of giants here are some cool things from google that I did for fun.
exi - drawing simple shapes and making chars out of them is a fun way to go about it. if a char is simple but you came up with it, it makes it a more fun then copying something on the internet. simple chars can develop easily as soon as you get your own style down. and there is a difference between influence and biting imo. finding the middle ground is what is really hard to do
yeah im all about drawing shapes turning em into chars...youll get good quickly..heres some of mine in the mix.. the first is made out of the last letter of a tag..i think its real cool when you can add chars to tags...or simply tag chars way more attention [Broken External Image]:http://i804.photobucket.com/albums/yy329/lord_plankton/DSCF1890.jpg [Broken External Image]:http://i804.photobucket.com/albums/yy329/lord_plankton/DSCF1898.jpg [Broken External Image]:http://i804.photobucket.com/albums/yy329/lord_plankton/DSCF1900.jpg [Broken External Image]:http://i804.photobucket.com/albums/yy329/lord_plankton/DSCF1895.jpg [Broken External Image]:http://i804.photobucket.com/albums/yy329/lord_plankton/DSCF1891.jpg [Broken External Image]:http://i804.photobucket.com/albums/yy329/lord_plankton/DSCF1892.jpg [Broken External Image]:http://i804.photobucket.com/albums/yy329/lord_plankton/DSCF1896.jpg
i like doing characters.. tho i don't practise often enough... i wish i was half as good as some of these people. [Broken External Image]:http://i480.photobucket.com/albums/rr167/hatman29/dsfgfh.png?t=1286309766 ps. i was using a laptop pad to draw this.. crits would help =}
the characs i paint usually never wear underwear...theyr goin hard without showin off what they got...hahaha but yeah thx man...
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Here's some vector stuff I've done a while ago. Click on the thumbnails for full-res. [Broken External Image]:http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/7442/sally.th.png[Broken External Image]:http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/4707/megacatframe.th.png[Broken External Image]:http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/2818/themooncat.th.png
aahh..no thanks. heres some quick shit of boredom [Broken External Image]:http://i804.photobucket.com/albums/yy329/lord_plankton/DSCF1916.jpg [Broken External Image]:http://i804.photobucket.com/albums/yy329/lord_plankton/DSCF1920.jpg
Yeah, I was debating even putting them up. Your characters look alright, a bit hard to follow, but like you said, it looks like they were done quickly. You should put up your neater stuff.
loving your characters... just the last one, i would orgasm if it had eyebrows.. it's very expresionless.
@Plankton: that first character is awesome. i love the body all sneakin away, im not to sure how i feel about the head/face though. i have a feeling it could be better, but since its some quick stuff, i say finish the sketch and go paint it
thx jokz, well the faces are meant to be O´s not sure about em either obviously didnt finish the sketches after the m..probably never will.. heres some other shit i did a while back..fucked up the legs bigtime [Broken External Image]:http://i804.photobucket.com/albums/yy329/lord_plankton/bboybattle001.jpg
thx man, i freestyle most of my stuff but often i clean up the raw firstline layout..like some lines that doesnt fit as good as the rest