I like the troubled kind of characters who are silent and struggle with expressing themselves....and usually have one or more of the traits that attract me to characters in other stories (being heterochromia, mutisism, scars, odd hair colors, male(tendency to dislike most if not all female characters....), red hair(my favorite hair color in guys), wry humor, and a few other things that I'll remember probably tomorrow....
I tend to always want to create a rather brooding, serious character. (too much of my own personality coming out I guess) I make it an effort when making a character to make sure that I'm not just recreating that same personality type and sort of change it up to make things interesting. I have two main characters in my comic, and one of them is like the character I described above. The other is the complete opposite. They're brothers so it sort of gives me a pass from that serious character that I always have in my stories.
I always like having a misanthropic asshole in most of my stories. Its nice to have a sobering pessimist inject humor. To be honest as far as drawing goes I probably draw more dudes at the moment but prefer drawing women when I can. (I sorta learned how to recently and I've been practicing trying to get it right.)
i really like kid guy characters and snarky girl characters. i think mostly cuz my all time favorite characters are peter pan and xena so my brain just goes there easiest. but im also really into witches so i been making lots of those kinds of characters too for future comics. all different kinds of witches tho. dudes and un-dudes. old and young. good and bad. so that one goes all over the place
If left to my own devices, with no real plan in mind, my main characters tend to be either a.) grumpy dudes with stubble, b.) really kickass ladies, or c.) androgynous people dressed in flowing clothing, like maybe they're cosplaying oldschool ghosts.
As for a.) - where the perfect example is Masahiro - I know why this happens so much; I really, really like characters who aren't immediately likeable, and who have problematic personalities, and who I have to get to know before I like them. I want a bit of a mystery to solve, some kind of wall to break through. So I create a lot of characters with secrets up their sleeves and grumpiness as a coping mechanism. Also, I have a thing for problematic characters in general. In the ASOIAF-books (let us not speak of the tv-show, on which I have very loud opinions), one of my favourite characters is Jaime Lannister - not because I in any way approve of what he's done, but because the way he is attempting to change is fascinating to me.
Creating kickass ladies is always nice, obviously - inside of Grassblades, I've got aristocratic ladies, soldiers, bandits., etc. - and outside of Grassblades, I have space-adventurers, pirates, knights, gangster queens, vikings, airship commanders, etc.,.
As for the last category, I have a thing for androgynity in character-design, AND I like to draw loose, flowy clothing. In a world where practically everything is gendered, I like to sit somewhere in between, design-wise.
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However, I am making an effort to be as varied as I possibly can in my designs. It's a good challenge for myself, AND it makes the world look a bit more real. Not everyone looks the same, after all, and it's nice to include a bunch of different people.
So I've got female characters who are shy and quiet, male characters who are warm and friendly and welcoming, I've got characters with as many varied skintones, sexual orientations, body shapes and backstories as I can possibly think of. Because not only is it a good learning experience, it is fun.
I tend to create characters in twos and it's almost always a boy-girl pair. And for some reason the boys tend to be sad and withdrawn, while the girls are more shrewd with manipulative/violent tendencies.... i dont know what this says about me as a person lmao
but im trying to add more variety to it!
a vast majority of my characters are children. i just find kid heroes more fun to write, especially precocious ones; child protags are more vulnerable to their surroundings, so there's a lot to squeeze out of a setting. my short stories have teen/adult protagonists in them, but they're in a modern realistic setting, or there's certain themes in the plot that would be too jarring for a child protagonist to explore.
Characters with serious issues, basically. Punks, angry loners, creepy stalkers (lookin' at you, Daniel)....psychotic characters are pretty common with me, too. XD I don't really TRY to only write these sort of characters, I just have the easiest time writing them for some reason so they squeeze their way into my stories. I've concluded my writing is where all my inner evil goes to. XD Though I guess I write the sarcastic yet lovable comedian and adorable but not puke-worthy children fairly well too.
Right now I'm stuck with a 1930s setting so fashion has been easy to reference, though I always try to keep in mind the character's personality when designing their clothes. Even a uniform could have 'special touches' based on the character. Though I guess I have a fondness for black, high collars and long coats when it comes to character designs.
I could stand to vary my characters looks a little more as I'm stuck with the "anime lookalike" problem a bit...I have been trying to give each character distinctive features, it just could be better.
I also prefer male characters because I get to draw man butts.
(And....I dunno, they just always end up being dudes.)
Let's see:
- Cute dorks with their head in the clouds
- Smug jerkasses
- Weird spiky/oddly shaped anime hair (so fun to draw!)
- Just designing personifications in general
- Somehow, my characters with glasses also tend to have brown hair more often than not (I actually have brown hair and wear glasses myself...)
- The series I make either have mostly female characters, or a pretty much similar amount of female and male. Consolers being the first example of the latter. Before that I rarely made guy characters, pretty much only throwing in a "token dude" minor character just because "oh, i guess i should add some male characters too", haha.
Me too, it's not even something I really think about but a bunch of my designs end up this way. I prefer to dress in a more "androgynous" style myself, so this might be reflected in my designs since it's the "style" I like?
For main characters that I have to move around, they're mainly male. Mostly since I am one, so I know the reaction of a male in certain situations. But I personally love to create female characters, both beautiful and full of spunk. My most recent project will have a lot more females because, well, it'll be more like real life ** *gasp**
My characters range from the utterly depressed type, the loner type, the overly engaged type, the spunky type, the bewildered type, ... well really any type. But the most is the stand-alone, "the world needs me" type. Because, well, if they're the main character it kinda makes sense.
I am doing more different kinds with every new story I make, so yeah. Fun fun.
I kinda make characters who have to develop through the comic.
Always male main characters. who knows why.
From Two Faced you got...
The main character, quiet confused type (Later becomes) The sure of himself dude.
The other main character, quiet, rude, wild? (Later becomes) still rude, more understanding.
Side character dude, Mysterious quiet, cunning, (later becomes) Awesome
Side character lady, outgoing, loud, overly happy (Later becomes) annoying
ETC ETC....
I often tend to make females (rarely males) because they're more elegant respect males....except if you don't make a girly boy XD
I have a tendency of creating characters that are odd. I don't really know how to explain in, but like they have a different way of thinking in comparison to others so they seem distant. Think Penelope or Bang Bang from The Brothers bloom.
I catch myself creating those characters all the time:
- brave, confident, but also careless girls
- calm, caring guys
- psychopaths, from yandere-ish characters to killers/poisoners
- characters with a distorted sense of what is good and bad
...and combinations of those : D though since I realised it, I'm trying to make my characters more diverse in personality c;
I am female but always had male almost exklusively male charaters up my sleeve. This is probably because I have a hard time identifying with other girls when I was younger. For my current project I really tried to include more female characters but I still have a lot less experience drawing female bodies. I love characters with a dark mind which are good people at the bottom of their hearts.
Forgot to mention. All of my stories have at least one crotchety old man in them. Crotchety old men are very important to me.
I tend to create snarky, apathetic young men with a lot of secrets. Let's not ask a psychologist what that says about me haha. ha.
I tend to place a heavy emphasize on my protagonists, because they represent their story. However, in the initial stage they seems to be the weakest character development-wise. I do fix this before I start drawing the story so they can be one of the narratively strong characters in the story. I also make the protagonist smart in some shape or form. However, one personality type I have a soft spot for is the dandere especially the female ones. I can also relate to them because I am a dandere myself. As far as visual tendencies, I tend to give the main female an A-Cup chest while the other females have normal size chests. The guys usually have some sort of spiky hair or it is really layered.
