Why characters need an outfit ?

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Cause it presents a lot informations to answer the question “ Who are they?”

Moreover, we can't let our characters naked all the time like this, right?

So today I would love to show you how design outfit for my characters on this Samsung Galaxy Tab S7.

Enjoy!

1 - Character's lore

What is character's lore?

It is a detailed story about our character, let's us know

- Where they live?

- When they live?

- Why they live there?

- How they live?

 

How it impact?

Let's find out the answers for 4 questions above.

 

When and where

What era they're living?

Modern time?

Or 18th century?

Or prehistory? Fantasy world?

 

This information will be presented by

- Details on character’s clothing.

- Accessories they’re wearing.

Why and how

Family background:

Why their family living here? Owning a house or renting one?

Does she/he has parents?

What are they doing for living?

 

These will be presented by materials of their cloth. Cheap or expensive?

 

 

Additional info

 

Age/ gender/ personality could effect their fashion style

- Dark or bright clothing

- Simple or complex clothing

- Skirt/ jeans/ T- shirt?

2 - Your purpose

What are you making?

An illustration?

A comic?

Or an animation?

Illustration will have a lot of color range.

Diversify light and shading sources for more interesting.

It is up to style, character will have a lot of details.

It took a lot of time for one piece only.

Cause deadline and you have to draw a lot frames, scene, characters…

There is no time for details.

You need to simplify your character as much as you can so that you could catch up deadline (weekly?)

Choose max 3 - 5 colors for whole project cause you have to color the same scene, same character a lot of times.

Let's design my characters as an example for you

I have a few informations about them here.

I choose color palette that I think it suitable.

And here is the result

Here is for comic/ animation reference only, it will be very simple

So I will make an illustration about them to bring into comparison.

You could see that illustration will have more depth and detail.

 

So that's all for today. You could see my whole process on the included video.

Thank you for watching this ♡