im going to eat this character they are so pretty
Personally my designs work better when I have some idea of what the character is like beforehand. Though my brain is an idea machine, starting from nothing can still be hard.
Also I tend to use layer filters on like… a solid color via clipping mask and then tone it down on whatever adds the most to the colors. I don’t always do this, but when I do I’m generally happy with the result.
Though generally I don’t have a lot of tips,, I tend to get a lot of ideas as I work and I have a natural eye for color, which although I haven’t studied color theory I have developed over my years of doing art.
NAMES THOUGH, those are fun. I always look up a name before I give it to a character to make sure it’s real, unless it’s a pun (like Gyummy)
Sometimes I have a clear cut idea but sometimes I research names. Especially for my East Asian characters I didn’t get help from my friends naming (which includes all of the ones in my HSR folder)
I wouldn’t suggest going to baby naming websites, if you ever need help naming characters I’d be so down.
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