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J.Z.Castillo
Oct '16
  1. Girls characters always need big bewbs
  2. You can have a deep relationship develop between two guys BUT THEY MUST NEVER share their feelings with each other
  3. MC has to be loud and boisterous
  4. If character is not interesting enough just give them a characteristic that would make them different but not hinder them during the story or make them less attractive, like vitiligo or heterochromia
J.Lovelace
Oct '16

Make the character be constantly hungry. Like literally make them complaining about being hungry even if they ate a meal consisting of 45 plates of food and drank two galons of beverages, they wil still complain about being hungry 30 minutes later.

Michelle
Oct '16
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Making your characters misanthropic is the quickest way to making them seem cool and misunderstood! ;>

Designing an older adult character? Draw them like your young characters, just add a single line under each eye. Lines around the mouth too if they're, like, super old.

More like a story tip BUT

Please make sure to have all romantic plots/subplots be incredibly obvious to your readers as soon as possible, preferable the nanosecond two characters meet. But ensure that the characters involved emphatically express how not-in-love they are with each other despite all evidence to the contrary. Bonus points for lines like "S-She's NOT my girlfriend!"

NickRowler
Oct '16

-All girls must be pink
AND the opposite
-Girls should never be feminine because femininity is EVIL
-Blonde = stupid
-Naturally rainbow hair makes a character better
-Give them a dark depressing pasts (family members dying/abuse/trauma) but give them a happy pippy personality....but they shop at Hot Topic and listen to Green Day so they are still "sad and edgy".
-Make them your persona, if you love anime, they should love anime. If you have a crush on a fictional character, they too must have that crush. If you hate something, they too must hate it. But give them purple hair because you want purple hair but your mom says no.
-Ship them with a creepy pasta character

Quinineer
Oct '16

Make sure to obviously indicate the main character is special! They must either be tremendously popular, or an extreme, edgy loner(no in between!).

Also, if there is fighting involved, give every character incredibly impractical outfits, such as rainbow, neon capes, ten different swords strapped on their back, and bikini armor.

60SixAn Actual Shark
Oct '16

That design you've had for your main character since middle school? No need to update it, it's already perfect.

Pandastrophic
Oct '16

Everyone is a high school student, no need to include any adults or teachers!

Devika
Oct '16
  • To save time, use the same face and eye shape for all your characters! People can tell the difference just by the hair and clothes!
  • Make sure your big boobed ladies don't wear any support at all, especially if they'll be jumping around and fighting. A small triangle bikini top is enough. Maximize that bounce, baby!
Shiori_Saku
Oct '16

Here's one!

Make the design for your character so RIDICULOUSLY complicated that you can not redraw your character without:
1: Forgetting an "important" element of their clothing or costume
2: Changing their age
3: Chaining their hair length (or type!)
4: Spending more than 12hrs on the line art for ONE PANEL just to have it be so crowded you have to rearrange the whole page!

mayday
Oct '16

If you have multiple protagonists, make sure they all have equally super traumatic pasts (Giving one or two a bad past but making the other's contrast? Ridiculous!). Bonus points if those backstories aren't connected in the slightest!

Give all your female characters huge amounts of cleavage and way oversexualize them while making sure your males are always covered and realistically dressed!

Make sure to NEVER use diversity! Other races are too hard to draw!

Alternatively, make your POC so white looking that no one even knows that they aren't! That way you can say it's diverse without actually making it so!

mayday
Oct '16
NickRowler

if this ain't the realest thing for young writers though lmao

Tamanegi
Oct '16

If it's an evil villain, go crazy with the double chins and ugliness. Think Ursula from The Little Mermaid as your example. Being unattractive on the outside ALWAYS assumes the same on the inside.

indagold
Oct '16

don't forget to make them always wear SS uniforms! That way you know they are evil.

indagold
Oct '16
J.Z.Castillo

or a scar that makes them look cool and not at all disfiguring.

mayday
Oct '16

Especially if that scar is never explained/addressed and has no significance to the character outside of their appearance!

Quinineer
Oct '16

I've got another one; CAT EARS! For no reason! Because it's kawaii!
Also, give them human ears as well! Not like it matters, right?

NickRowler
Oct '16

-You don't need to research Japan or anything, you know enough from all that anime you watch.
-But then again, you really don't know everything about Japan, so make up a fake Japanese town and do whatever, so no one can get mad if it is not like the real thing.
-If you can't write a personality or decent jokes, just make them super kawaii
-Adult women should look like teenagers. Teenager girls should look like little girls. And young girls should look like babies (and act like them too).
-Handsome men don't have facial hair or body hair, that's only for the old and uglies
-Teenage girls and adult women acting like toddlers or cats is adorable.................(gag)