What are some recurring elements in your character designs?

[J.Lovelace]

Black hair, bangs swept to the side of the character's face and goth clothing XD
Especially pure black clothing.

[rmdooley]

If the design is complex, I'll probably kill them. I don't want to be drawing all that extra over and over again

[Klaustasya]

Well, i noticed that i keep drawing characters either with brownish hair or red hair, like, i can't pick other colors at all! So all my characters hair are red, brown and sometimes pink but never used fancy colors as blue, green, even blonde...
Also the hairstyle too is always the same: messy hair for (hot) guys and long simple hair for girls with bangs usually...like i feel like i'm affected by a "same hair" syndrome XD but yeah doing them differently totally upset me.

[Kelheor]

Funny to say it, but it's triangles! They come up quite frequently in clothes and accessories.
They are on Gil's shirt (representing nachos, lol) and shoes, on Summer's shirt in Hexameron and on Ada's shirt collar and earrings in Master of Keys.
Most of my MC guys have messy straight hair and MC girls have curly dark hair and green eyes. Girls usually have cool color palettes and guys have warm ones.
Also: jackets, hoodies, thick brows and mostly no one ever wears skirts

[amortelito]

Extremely simple clothes. I almost never draw details in the clothes. The pieces have solid colors. I feel like my goal is to have a distinctive overall look and I see some details as unnecessary. Farah's jumpsuit is the perfect example, I don't think she needs belts, zipper, pockets or a print, she looks like herself.

[punkarsenic]

i love.. pairs of opposites. angular and round, tall and short, thin and thick, cool and warm - im always making those kinds of pairs.

i also really like making humanoid monstrous character with horns, sheep ears, and funky teeth. i realise i Keep Doing This and its very repetitive but I LOVE IT

[nathanKmcwilliams]

Angry eyes. Or just determined. They are usually set with some sort of heavy penetrating gaze.

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[Kura]

Simplified and not extra in any way imaginable.

[icarusmask]

Mostly story related: I find a lot of my characters are secretly dragons.

visually. My the eyes tend to be the same. Also, undercuts.

[lartianmartian1]

Little cowlick things. On the male characters. Or a fair few of them, anyway. I had to deliberately give one dreadlocks (and also because practicing new or non-white hairstyles is good for me! Good I say! )

[Chita]

All my characters tend to have small bangs that hide the face/ear union, at first it was because I didn’t knew how to draw it. Now I do it mainly cause it’s fun to draw that hair cause it helps to exaggerate head movements and also cause it’s poofy, and I like the poof

[aqua03]

Who doesn't like the poof? Actually, you adding slight elements like that to exaggerate and make motion easier to read reminds me of what I do with scarves and capes and stuff.

[HGohwell]

• Long hair
• Those flicky curly bangs that curl around the face normally just under the eyes in front of the ears
• Hair over people's faces in general, especially combined with long hair
• Really dark brown eyes
• Over the shoulder braids
• An actual odd one where I was made really aware that I create a lot of redheads (I like redheads I'm sorry) and so have been consciously trying to not draw so many of them.

[Kittosaurus]

freckles ^^;

I have to stop myself from giving them to everyone

Right!?!? Oddly I do this way more when I draw traditionally then when I draw digitally though ( no idea why... )

"that one long cat-eye eyelash"

Also a must!

[ben]

Lots of layers

and lots of stripes

And i really like two bff characters who wear matching outfits

[baasinsimple]

Weird masks, Thunder thighs and suit jackets.

[L.O.R.D]

Eyes. The same shape, size and colour on every character lol

[demthorshie]

Protagonist is always wearing pink and/or purple

and wears her hair coily and huge!

[GrimRose]

Crazy hair strand that sticks up on their head/sides. (at least the main character or supporting side character always has it)

Freckles/beauty mark

I also draw main characters usually in pairs of two! Most of them have a supporting/partner that works with them. I usually design them to be contrasting in design and personality.