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Developing Your Cartoon Man
To Create More Inspired Characters
This cartoon man tutorial has been made for artists who are ready to go
past the beginner stage and begin working on creating their own unique
style and characters. We should all strive to take real pride in our work
and a big part of this is developing your characters as fully as possible.
Who Is He?
The more thought that you put into your character; the easier that it will
be to make the character believable in the eyes of the people that see
him.
Here's an example that everyone can relate to: Homer Simpson from
the Simpsons TV show. Everyone knows his character and some people
might even say that he's the most simpleminded character on the entire
show - aside from Cleetus, of course! But when you really start to look
closely and analyze his actions then you can begin to come up with a
personality profile for him and realize that he might not be just as
simple as you might think.
Creating a personality profile for a character by looking at his actions
as suggested with Homer is working backwards but this is still a good
exercise because it help develop your ability to create better characters
and ultimately become a better storyteller and artist.
When you're going to create your own cartoon man, you should start
with creating the personality.
Here's a list of questions that you can use to
get the ball rolling for your own believable character:
- What scares him?
- Is this character based off of someone that you know in the real
world?
- What style of clothes does he wear?
- If your character bought a magazine, which magazine would he most
likely choose?