Consistency among characters
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Hi folks,
Two-part question:
I'm wondering if anyone's seen any specific guidance on maintaining consistency among character designs from the same story. So that they are clearly from the same world.Also, any specific ideas on how to represent different ages of characters from the same world? For example, I love Marco Bucci's character design's of children - with those wide heads that he says reminds him of a rugby ball/American football. However, I don't think that design would work for an adult in the same story. Any ideas what you could do, other than the obvious progressively narrow the head depending on character's age?
Thanks very much for any pointers.
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Hey there, can you please tell me where to find Bucci's character designs for kids lessons? I would love to watch it and afterwards give it a try to design an adult that way. If I succeed I can tell you what I did differently.
Besides that my way of maintaining consistency is in having at least SOMEthing that all characters have in common. Like having very short legs or set the eyes very high in the face like the adult vikings of Nico Marlet.
Or do all eyes the same way, f.e. round cicles with a black spot in in, bigger for children, smaller for adults, but all the same kind of eyes. Etc. There are plenty ways and it also depends on the overall drawing style you are aiming for.Besides, I would like to ask you back: Are you really SURE that you are struggling with this? Maybe you are trying to fix something that isn't a problem after all? Or did people tell you that your characters don't look like they are from the same world?
Are you willing to show us some of your characters that SHOULD belong to the same universe? Maybe YOU only see differences between them, but us others see that they belong together?
