Character Info Sheets Anyone?

[papachan]

So do you post these on your comic? Or do you just keep them for yourself for reference?

[insomniascrawl]

Before I even read what you wrote I saw the profiles and thought 'Military Files' you totally succeeded with the theme. Your character profiles are also pretty interesting too, I'm curious now, I'll have to check out the comic.

[insomniascrawl]

Personally, the one I put up is for use in the comic, for the readers to keep track of the characters and get an idea of what they are like.

I keep far more detailed word based sheets for myself for each character so that I can keep them as constant as possible. But that's just my preference.

[chanalli]

Actually my character sheets are part of my story.
Everythime a new character is introduced I will add his or her sheet at the end of the chapter, for example in chapter 3 there is a new character so I will draw his sheet at the end...

Here are the sheets of my characters so far: Meet the Clovers

PS. I love Quinn's design!

[insomniascrawl]

What a clever idea to do it that way. It really keeps the focus on each individual character that way. I also love their designs, and the texture of the background that you used on the sheets, the height on the back is very subtle and I thought it was an interesting way to show their height without flat out writing it, very cool

Also, thanks! I think Quinn and Z tie as my favourite characters to draw haha.

[aspiderjonny]

I've made a couple for my two superhero series Jonny Web Series and The Valve Web Series. I only did the images. The descriptions are on the bio pages on my website, which you can find here.

Jonny Regionson Jr./The J-Man

Valentina Mobela/The Valve

[insomniascrawl]

Nice, interesting approach to keep the bio part separate. Saves on space on the page, that's for sure, I know on mine I was scared that it would look cluttered haha.

All that aside, your character design is cool, I'm curious about them now, will have to check out your stuff.

[Kamikaze]

Only recently showed any sort of character info sheet for Kamikaze. My team did it during our recent hiatus (and it nicely ties in with whats going on with the story). I was really shocked to see how well received they were. They have more comments on them than I ever expected!

Basic premise is you're looking at a character's PoV as he compiles dossier information on our lead Markesha and her father, Toshi.

[insomniascrawl]

I see why they got a lot of attention, the info is well laid out, the presentation itself is awesome, and your character design is eye catching. I really like these.

[Kamikaze]

Well thanks @insomniascrawl! Have a hug!

[iddqd]

Oh wow, those are some cool sheets! I only recently added actual character sheets, and they're mostly for personal use. They're also supposed to help me with writing the characters, and are definitely a work-in-progress. I may end up doing an actual design for these sheets, but it's already a step-up from having them in Excel, right?

[insomniascrawl]

This is also how I do the ones for my reference very similar sort of layout and I use it for the same reasons, to help with keeping the characters in character as I write.

Seeing a design for them would be cool though, would like to see it if you decide to do it

[Cielle]

well I don't exactly have info sheets for my characters, but I did do a compilation of all the expressions that best represent their personalities.
Max Alister, leading lady of Reus

Rei Nebel, leading guy of Reus

[insomniascrawl]

Haha, very different, I love their expressions

[iddqd]

Thanks! (I kinda have to assume you were replying to me). Yeah, "staying in character" is hard. Having to explicitly define the speech patterns, for example, makes it easier to voice out the dialogue, or figure out what exactly a character might say, and how, compared to the guy standing right next to them. I think this is my biggest challenge so far.

Well I gave up on formal character rotation sheets a long time ago. Here's the last one I made (in 2012 I think). I was all into Eureka 7 and wanted to model the sheets after the character sheets from that show.

[insomniascrawl]

Haha, yes I was replying to you, sorry that wasn't super clear. And yeah, staying in character is hard, but that's why the sheets are super helpful. I think I used to occasionally make my characters say tings that really didn't match their personalities, so keeping the sheets totally helps me keep that all in order.

Rotation sheets are kinda a pain to do, but this one looks super nice, the turn is really consistent and I really like her design!

[RewindLabs]

Personally, I like to know the characters role in my mind and don't really bother with character sheets.
I find that the story becomes a whole lot more personal when the reader is left with their own interpretation of the character. I'll give them the story.
I mean at the end of the day, we all value characters based on our personal perception on them. Most of us.

[starlightcityentert]

I actually have a Databook for my characters on my series R:ILPERSONA's website. Here's the entries for my main characters RADE and STRYKES:

[phen]

Check it out, haha, I found some sketchy mini-bios I did of There's No Such Thing as Jason characters from my fall sketches! I need to update these so bad but they're fairly recent! Much newer than the other ones I posted~

[insomniascrawl]

Very interesting point of view, I understand where you're coming from there.