How to make your character design attractive and interesting ?

Vivek Rai was sending me by email a pretty cool picture from a school task he had about creating characters. He asked me some tips about: How to generate ideas to create Character design ?

Vivek Rai – Initial research of character design for a school project

The whole idea is to make interesting features pop out.

To do so, we need a story. A good story gives his characters specific role and personality for each of them. This is where we get all our inspiration from to “translate” them visually.

It’s a phenomenon you find in nature. An alligator will have such feature that it will look dangerous and not friendly compared to a cute puppy we wanna hug.

I would like you to take a minute and think about it for product design. What expression, personnality would you like to give to your product creation ? How it will influence its attributes ?

I share with you the full response I have sent to Vivek below. I hope it will be also useful to you too ! 🙂

“Hello Vivek,

My tip is: Before drawing anything. Ask and find the MAIN attribute first. Think of your character personality. What was his past story? Where does he come from? What does he dream of ?

When you are ready,  start drawing many doodles exploring different alternatives !

 

Judy Hoops, the rabbit of Zootopia wants to become Police officer but she’s weak and small! However she’s smart, courageous, ressourceful, and has a strong sense of justice.