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Tutorial: Character Design — Description
Another tutorial I have promised to do!
This time it is a tutorial for character design and the "test object" was the main character of my online story "The Song of Blades".

Finished picture:
Character Design

Some more information to character design

There are different kinds of character design: One is a "Reference Sheet", which has more information about the character and the other one is just the "Character Design", which just shows how a character or creature looks like.
Reference Sheets usually have information like a character's personality, colour palettes and detailled shots of other body parts, like the eye (colour).
Character Designs are just an illustration of a character and addidional information are usually in the description, like the lines of a book, which describe the character.

If you draw a character design, it is important to add details. But don't carry it too far If you do a fullbody design, you don't have to draw details for every detail.
For example: A character has blue eyes with a brown ring around the pupil. Then you shouldn't draw this brown ring, just draw a blue eye

Too detailled details (like HD-textures for everything) just look too much and you also don't have to draw every single hair of fur/hair. Add details and textures, but never too much

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