What is your character design pet peevee?

[heterodont]

Actually I think I would still consider that pretty cute... My mind has been untainted by Tumblr apparently. ...I've gone cliche blind. Halp.

I really like the red nose design aspect as well HAHA when it's toned down and doesn't stick out too much from the skin it can actually be pretty cute and, I think, it adds contrast and thus brings attention to the face. Again, it's in moderation...like personally, when the blush is red enough for someone to put a Highlight in it, it rubs me the wrong way.

[maximumthemokona]

I feel bad attaching "Tumblr" to it 'cause it's a bit reductive. I've seen it even in japanese hentai and, alas, in some professional comics.

To compensate I'll add that I think pink hair is freaking amazing and I'm ready to fight anyone who thinks otherwise ; )

[lorenu]

(too) Big chested girls.
Eyes that big, they don't even allow the character to have a forehead.
Foreigners being blonde with blue eyes. (I understand why, but well…)
Cat/animal mouths on human characters, like this -> :3
I do sometimes like animal ears and other accessoires, but not if they always wear it.
Now that I look over the list again, everything mainly happens in mangas haha

[nessiefynn]

Foreigners being blonde with blue eyes. (I understand why, but well…)

Why so? No matter where you live, there's plenty of blonde blue-eyed people from foreign countries out there. :?

[lorenu]

Yes that's true, but I feel like they restrict themselves by designing them like that.
A lot of foreigners have brown or black hair too (many have brown eyes, though I only met two people until now who had green eyes…).
Anyways, it's not like the readers wouldn't believe they'd be, for example, french if they don't have blonde hair.
That's what I meant p:

[TACOBERTO]

Heterochromia.
Whoops...

[Maxiachan]

I guess a pet peeve of mine would be when a character outfit is clearly out of place or occ.
Examples would be Orihime from bleach in the sternritter arc:

Previous arcs:
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/bleach/images/8/86/Episode_347_Orihime.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/250?cb=20111109040237&path-prefix=en
http://www.absoluteanime.com/bleach/orihime[4].jpg

She isn't a sexual character or anything like that. So her choice of clothing here doesn't make sense. It's made worse when Kubo excuses it by saying she wearing it for Ichigo. URGH.

Or in Corpse Party Blood Drive with the addition of new characters. Imo, it's has one of the worse designs.
I start by saying Corpse Party (kind of) followed a "theme" with their character designs. Like most characters either have black/brown hair and a uniform. That's it. With these new characters it feels so deviantart like anime now
What's bugs me the most is Kuon Niwa's design. She supposed to be really skinny but she has huge breast. I feel if you're going to make a character that's a sick and aging rapidly then go all the way and actually make her skinny.
But it's not a huge deal breaker. I just feel it's out of place.

[CelestialNavigator]

Oh and let us not forget the dreaded BOOB WINDOW!
As in a picture with Orihime, which @Maxiachan posted above.
I mean it's pretty uncomfortable type of clothes, especially if you have big breasts.

[60Six]

Oh yay someone revived this thread so I can complain about another peeve of mine I've realized recently:

Plain shirts. Just. plain. fucking. shirts.
Like HOW OFTEN do you HONESTLY see someone walking down the sidewalk with just a SOLID green or yellow t-shirt. With literally no pattern or logo on it. Plane WHITE t-shirts are sort of different, but every time I see just a solid green or yellow or blue shirt that has literally no design on it, I'm just kind of like "please at least put a STRIPE on it or something."
It just makes me feel like everyone is in a TV commercial where any logos or designs could get them sued. Please just put a jacket on them ore a stripe or something on the shirt D:

[Kura]

It's kind of funny, cause unless it's from a franchise I REALLY like, I absolutely HATE designs on my shirts and go out of my way to just find plain shirts with nothing on them. (Even more of a pet peeve for hoodies with zippers at the front if the zippers CUT THROUGH a picture or logo... it just... makes me so angry) Even with my shirts that have pictures on them I mostly only wear them at home. I just... I duno... I just really HATE going out with pictures/logos/patterns or designs on my clothes.

It's actually harder to find coloured shirts with NOTHING on them then you would think, unless they are meant for layering. I remember as a kid I was always angry how it couldn't be how it was like in cartoons, where it was apparently REALLY EASY to find shirts without crap on them, since EVERYONE had them.

So yeah, with that I actually like the plan shirt thing that happens a lot in drawings. It's just... satisfying... I duno lol

[indagold]

Characters with vitiligo... this is just like heterochromia, PLAYED OUT! It can be done, sure, but most of the time is to make a character feel more special and different from the rest.

I think Vitiligo is probably one part of tumblr's "unique and inspirational" character design. They'll likely be pudgy, neurotic, pink haired, missing a leg, etc.

Oh, hai, I am Jacinth, and I am gay. How are you?" the moment you first meet them? I personally don't feel comfortable revealing my characters sexual orientations/gender preferences because I feel that makes it feel inorganic, and ultimately, token-y.

I feel it works if it fits in to the plot. Like someone is dating someone of the same sex or something natural. Lots of times it's just introduced it follows tropes like: everyone in school hates the gay kid or lol grandma hates trans people.

JUST PLEASE MAKE ME AWARE that her hair colour has a cause, and maybe even include it in the plot.

Well if you got a teen character going through a phase I doubt that needs explanation.

[60Six]

I can see that side of things! But your difficulty in finding plane colored tees just makes it clear...OFF it is to have an entire cast of characters in nothing but plain colored tees (without any layering). At least in a...realistic sense I guess? :'D
I have a lot of plain TANK TOPS that I use for layering, but yeah, I can't think of any time I've actually just...seen a colored t-shirt completely plain for sale in store. Most of the time, you have to order them from sites that have them in stock (to print things on and make them not plain lol).
It's definitely not a matter of me thinking its UGLY to have plain shirts, it's more so along the lines of if I see a whole cast of plain shirts all I can think is "Where did you all find these shirts? Who sold you these?? Did you all collectively decide to order plain colored tees?? You can't find these at fucking Target"

[Kura]

They need to tell me where they shop ;_;

To add to the thread.

Anthro characters specifically ones with fur, wearing clothes with zippers... just... that would really hurt if it got caught. Really... a lot...

[joannekwan]

@60Six and @kurapikasuki, haha my husband has a bunch of plain colored T-shirts from H&M and he loves them. He rarely wears anything else.

Another pet peeve of mine, when characters have the same damn hairstyle as children in their flashbacks and it's treated as normal.
Like it would be funny if there was a flashback of a kid with a bowl cut, and they have the same bowl cut as an adult though.

[TACOBERTO]

Spikey animu and mango hair. You know the one, the kind EVERY main protagonist used to have.
GOD NO

[vocaloidno1fan]

ah.. I hope you don't mind my upcoming series. The main character has heterochromia because she is based off of me. However, her eyes tend to change colors if a specific mood is strong enough. (Again, based off of me) I took some inspiration from Black Butler of one eye having a pentagram and be a different color than the other, but I kept the eyes as normal colors (a.k.a. like mine) and drew the pentagram to look more like a necklace I have..
Also.. I have a character that has "Rainbow" eyes.. what I mean is- her eyes are like the Northern Lights, they have a set of colors that are always changing and blending together.. Her eyes change to plain purple or red in certain situations though..

[vocaloidno1fan]

Actually, with how typical cat-human characters are drawn in anime, they aren't supposed to be placed where normal human ears are. The few that do have them there tend to droop down and give almost a "sleepy kitten" look to it (Chobitz is a good example.. Theres also another anime that has it but I cant think of the name..)
But it does bug me when they are directly on top.. That's not where they're supposed to be drawn.. I may be wrong on this but I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be the base of the ears line up with the base of the eyes.. Or top of where the normal human ears would be..
And that clash of colors thing bothers me too.. unless all the characters and the scenery and such are like that.. then it seems like a drug-trip X'D

[vocaloidno1fan]

O.O glad I drew all my characters that ever wear kimonos (or at least almost all.. I have to re-check) correctly.. I just went by what looks right.. but since you mentioned that I will make any necessary corrections.. or leave the right side on top for certain characters.. (they're technically undead.. so it's sort of a pun..)

[vocaloidno1fan]

i recommend not reading certain scenes of my (upcoming) story then... there are many over-sexualized wolf-anthros.. one is even a hermaphrodite (a.k.a. a he-she.. shemale.. a girl with parts.. just in case u didnt know..)
I am of the Furry community so I do like a well drawn anthro- oversexualized or not- but I do also understand that not everyone likes that ^^
However, my detailed anthros are that way for their own reasons.. whether it's a genetic thing, physical change, or even emotional thing.. they have reasons for their appearances.
All my characters do actually..

[nessiefynn]

What I was thinking was basically

So the ears don't have to be droopy but also aren't placed wierdly!