Greetings Sup Forumsmrades!
I'm taking a comic class in my college and I'm looking for great character designs for inspiration.
I've been reading and watching videos on the subject but I'm looking for more examples to study.
Can you post your favorite character design and tell me why you think they work?
Thanks in advance!
Greetings Sup Forumsmrades!
Carter Richardson
Jack Carter
Both the designs you posted are absolute shit.
Matthew Mitchell
right one looks ok but having only 3 toes make it look grotesque
Ryan Cook
I recommend Alex Toth's work. He designed a lot of the most iconic action stuff from hanna barbera and was an accomplished comic artist in his own right. He was very talented in creating immediately memorable monster designs, as well as balancing the more stylized methods of comic art with a more subdued naturalism, giving it a very homely feel.
Adrian Gonzalez
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Adrian Evans
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Henry Hill
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Robert Fisher
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Ayden King
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Ayden Thompson
While this is more animation than comics, I also highly recommend mystery of the third planet, as well as most soviet animation. It actually does a tremendous job of communicating very complex graphic designs into believable 3d space.
Benjamin Lee
Did he draw this t-rex based on a guy wearing a costume? It looks nothing like an actual t-rex
Parker Powell
That pic reminds me of this.
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Christopher Diaz
Ya gotta remember it was before jurassic park when dinos were kind of a fringe thing and people thought herbivores were carnivores and didn't really have a frame of refference for giant lizards. Plus its vaguely based off the dinos from king kong, I think the teeth were there more as a style thing.
James Rodriguez
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Austin Perry
DELET THESE TOTHS. Iwao Takamoto is the obviously superior HB artist.
Angel Wood
Another thing for design I'd recommend for you, OP, is to look through concept art like its crack.
its a good frame of mind to be in, to experiment on several looks before giving it more thought and mixing and matching the ones that're functional.
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Art guides/model sheets are a great source of inspiration as well, since with designs you kind of have to give them "rules" to make them consistent. Doesn't necessarily have to be super pretty, just consistent and not immersion breaking so the viewer never gets out of the experience because of unintended stuff like weird tangents on an unplanned perspective
Julian Jackson
If Gumball was "drawn by Hanna-Barbera" it would be fucking animated
Robert Young
That's what dinosaurs looked like back in the day.
Dylan Garcia
why is Shaggy so smug there
Aaron Price
That was drawn/animated by the same guy who did this btw
Josiah Reyes
I see
This looks too dynamic to be Hanna Barbera
Ayden Turner
Must be Red Shirt Shaggy, he knows he's got the bitches wet.