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What are your favourite character design features?

I personally adore characters with high contrast palettes
Especially when a character has dark skin/ base, then have a pop of bright colours for the accents
Just itches the brainSep 21, 2024

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Stardustrash

2yr

Here’s some of my fav that I considered peak design:

- Face not fully visible because the hair covers their eyes, only saw eyes when character is mad/serious (my OCs Isla and Abel share this trait).

- Face is a pure black void, only visible eye(s) or mouth (my OC Hatty).

- Oversized sleeves, so long that they fully or almost hide the character’s hands. (I’m planning to do this with my sona, because I tend to hide my hands IRL even with regular sleeves).

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0li0s

2yr

Oh but something more specific. I LOVE talons. Not long nails, specifically talons. In character design this usually looks like the entire finger becomes a claw at the end. Long nails tend to look like they'd break easily, or have too much of a witchy vibe to work with certain bestial characters. Bigass talons though, love that shit.

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0li0s

2yr

I like when they look like they could be in a Tim Burton or Guillermo del Toro movie

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sspacecatss

2yr

I loveeee characters with any sort of space/cosmic motif and I also like characters with a bunch of wings

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lizzsodivf

2yr

Sharp fingers/claws, tall and slim characters, and small eyes. Love the misterious and danger aura it provides

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pina_marzo

2yr

Curly hair. I like curls in real life too. I like that not only the can have different cuts, but also there are lots of different types of curls and styles for them. So I like when some of this variety is used in character design. And noses that are quite big or with a bump on women.

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caviar

2yr

TEETH GAPS AND BIGGER NOSES. I cannot express this enough.

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Gremzon

2yr

I can't stop myself from giving my ocs funky colored eye whites :')

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tiremi

2yr

High contrast character designs are just the best, I just love how much you can do with them! Characters with hats/ any interesting shape on their head are really cool too, bonus if the hat is comicaly huge

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clara_wade_

2yr

Ooo dark skin w/ dark hair combo, elf ears, freckles, long hair, fun wonky noses, anything to add magical vibes

(oop so basically my dnd oc lol)

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wilt_edpetals

2yr

Fangs ehehehhee horns, fun ears (like animal ears or elf ears), tails of any sort, yessszs

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angrimelon

2yr

Fingerless gloves, messy LONG hair and when characters have one piece of their hair in front of their face. Also a colorful hair streak and those shirts that are tilted so one shoulder's visible whilst the other isn't!! Plus headphones! :D

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