The problem with drawing characters I find is that when somebody reads your story and then looks at the character they have a total different idea from what the character looks like. For example with the Twilight movie. (I am only using this as an example because I personally hate Twilight). A lot of people were unsettled by Robert Pattinson because he was not what they imagined. But Stephanie Meyer chose him because she thought he looked exactly how she wanted him to be. I find that an authors oppinion of their own character will vary from person to person.
I also make my characters on Sims 2. I also make people from TV shows too randomly. I find it hilarious. That game is so epic.
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Von always plays around with girls- large, small. Older, younger- he does not flirt with kids! He also has a soft spot for Scarlet, thought he isn't sure why.
Scarlet moved to the Wind Kingdom when she was 6 and everyone picked on her for not being able to use magic. With Von's support she soon became a well known fire-mage. She does like Von but doesn't show it directly.
Their love and hate relationship makes me laugh when I reread chapters. Scarlet is constantly hitting Von for something and Von seems to always be in 'heat'. Their chemistry is so off that it actually causes them to like each other more. Every once in a while Von will be extremely sweet and kind to Scarlet and ignore any other female.
I'd like to...but I'm terrible at drawing realistic people. I can draw good cartoons, but so far, that's only worked for my script. They're supposed to be inflated and cartoonish, so they look good, but my medieval army commander...not so much.
I can occasionally manage to get a roughish sketch of my characters if I'm struggling to picture them. However, with my current pieces of writing I tend to play it out in my head as though I'm watching a film. That way I can just picture the entire scene and attempt to describe it from my own vision. I'd rather keep the image of my character to myself because it won't match up to other people's visions of my characters. I also don't like the idea of trying to draw my characters because I want them to look like real, human people and my artistic abilities only allow for cartoon or manga type interpretations.
Meep, Meep, Meep. The pink carrot never falls far from the tree...
Actually, sometimes I get legit story ideas from random characters I draw just for fun ^u^ but alot of the ones I draw are (hopefully) gonna be manga anyway ^^
Recently I've gotten into drawing certain scenes from some of my stories. ^^
Here are some examples ^^; (I'm sorry I'm not that good ^^'')
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These are actually two secondary characters from one of my story ideas that were two cute not to draw ^u^ Ethan+Sarah=Forever ^u^ ~ <3
This is Luke and. . . and. . .dang, I forgot her name XL It'll come back eventually ^^''
This one I was randomly drawing one night and had a whole story develop from it ^^ Though I still have no name for her yet ^^''
I am a Leaf on the Wind, Watch me Soar ~ Kyrie Eleison down the road that I must travel, Kyrie Eleison through darkness of the night
Yeah, I always liked painting, but I got into drawing to illustrate my stories. Admittedly, I'm more Max Beckmann than Raphael, but I try. They normally end up some brand of cartoonish; you can tell what and who they are, but they're hardly realistic.
It's fun, though. It helps me get a better feel for my characters; I tend to do it more often for stories and such with quite a cast list. My newest attempt at fiction has nine main characters, so I've got three of them sketched. I'm not sure where one of them managed to get hairspray in medieval times, but she's totally channeling the 80's hair-wise. It suits her.
I might have to post something later, when I have something a bit better than sketches. Cool to see everyone else's work and thoughts, though.
Oh, and at OokamiKitsune: Love the username. Foxes are amazement. Especially mythic Japanese foxes, yo. Also, your manga looks lovely from what I've seen. Work on the speech bubbles, though, maybe?
I draw some of my characters, but they never wind up looking the way I want them to. Or sometimes I'll sketch part of them, like the clothes they're supposed to be wearing when I can't get it right in my head. But I'm not very good at drawing. So they wind up mangled and smushed.
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We don't count the good things because the number would be too big for comprehension
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I like to try to draw my characters, but most of the time they change. I tend to only have one generic face in my head and that's really not that fun DX
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