Why Do I Keep Changing The Design Of My Characters?!

It's done

Here the links to the sketch and the lineart.

Warning, rant below

I almost ruined it ... just a friendly advise, if you use alcohol markers and have one of those protective sheets below, make sure you clean them from time to time ... otherwise the color stains the paper you're drawing on 😑

I tried to fix it with some new arcylic markers but they were way too intense BUT I found a white idk-what-it-is pen, and I was able to smeer it a bit to lighten the color.

If you look precisely you still see the stains but I'm glad I managed to save it somehow ...

I am trying to animate again :D

but nothing too big this time.

I was thinking about, how one of my OC's powers would work, and I had a little idea for a loop (after watching a sick fighting animation on Youtube, just that I couldn't figure out how to make something like that, so I'll just make a loop)

Anyway, I wanted to animate my OC Kael (Guardian of Time) and even with the keyframes, I am already impressed with how that looks.

Sneak peek below :D but don't expect too much

Note: Roughing it out, setting basic proportions, and so on ... I don't know if my timings are fine or if I need to tweak something about it ...

More sneak peek

I'm currently really pushing through. Also realised, I don't use any in-betweens by now XD (at least for now, but the animation feels fluid enough) AND I also needed to figure out the rest of the character design. I guess for now, I have something I might stick with, but this could change in the end or become more detailed.

AND NOW I FINALLY REALIZED WHY A CERTAIN PART LOOKED WEIRD!!! I copied the pose right as he turns around and forgot to change the legs so suddenly they were swapped.

And now I am realising that this might take some more brain power to fix, than just change that one frame ................

I think, I fixed it ... I guess it was not that visible from the beginning anyway ... just the feeling that was bugging me.

Well, it's still wrong and feels wrong. But this clearly takes more brain capacity than I currently have left. Guess I'll roughly animate the rest and continue hopefully tomorrow.

So, current state for today: (and yes, I still need to fix that stupid frame, or isn't it even noticeable?)

Okay, I stopped working on the previous sketch since something about it was not right. I'm not sure what but it felt weird and I didn't like it.

Instead I moved on to the next one. Sadly, I forgot to make a picture of the sketch before slightly erasing but I wanted to show it nethertheless. So, here's Eijiro in his hero costume

Can't wait to line and color it 😀

I was sketching a bit and ended up with Cross! (I kind of don't like it entirely, but once drawn on paper there's no undo button 😁, and yeah, I was too lazy to draw hands or even consider coloring it)

Then I was thinking like, hmmm that pose sure seems familiar...

Suddenly I remembered something else I made (and didn't post here yet, whoops):

I know making that animation was PAIN. After I finished, I wanted to move it into the middle of the picture but I was only able to move it frame by frame... After I realized it, it was too late and I tried to save it but in the end that turned out quite well (especially for my first character animation)

Also: It's each time a surprise how much an art style can change. My skellie boys all just got quite taller (and I did the sketch above because I haven't drawn a sans in such a long time, that I was afraid that I unlearned how to. But it's like riding a bike 😁)

Cross belongs to @jakei95

Just wanted to share a couple more doodles of my OCs. Think they turned out pretty nice.

That's Edward (former known as Decay)

And here we have Blake.

I'm looking forward to the day, I finally finish all of the concepts for my OCs so I can start telling their story.

I found some more 😀

Error belongs to @loverofpiggies

Ink belongs to @comyet

Some warm-up and trying to figure out how to draw Error. So, I made this little reference sheet for myself 😊 (there's also more stuff on it, but this is the most important part 😂)

I was also thinking: Okay, I need to think about when he reacts in a certain way to draw him. I could technically go and combine some emotions in a scene and make a little comic out of it. With that I would be able to train expressions AND train drawing comics 😁

(if you couldn't tell already, I like to set myself overambitious goals 😅)

AND what will be the most difficult, as I realize right now, I always tend to forget the glitches 😥 Need to keep that in mind...

added it 😁 and this is a typical case of: I'll just do a quick sketch... whops, my hand slipped 😂

Error by @loverofpiggies

I want to draw ...

but I don't know who. I need to train expressions and wanted to do the "25 Essential Expressions" challenge but I don't know who to draw. So I thought: Hey, this could be a cool idea to let somebody else decide!

Sooo, that's what I'll try:

Ink 😊 Wondering what he might be drawing there...

Ink by @comyet

Name: Ike

Age: 15

Gender: human - male

Ability: explosive soul

Backstory

After Ike fell to the Underground he befriended Monsterkind. As his AU got attacked and he tried to protect his friends, Ike got heavily hurt and accidentally destroyed his AU. As he was left alone in the white void that was left of his world, Zero decided to take care of him. Since then they're living together in the 'backdoors', a place that Zero created.

Abilities

If Ike's HP drop below 5, his soul starts to glow and erases the entire AU he's currently in. He is also able to redirect energy into his fists and perform power-punches.

Appearance

Ike is wearing a striped orange shirt, blue jeans and orange sneakers. He is also wearing bandages. These bandages were given to him by the monsters before he destroyed his AU. Zero upgraded them, so they would heal him periodically.

Personality

Ike has a sunshine-like personality and always tries to be kind and cheerful. Due to his soul trait, bravery, he is still hotheaded and competitive.

Just drew this dude. I think studying the mha artstyle really improved my artstyle. I love him ❤️ and it didn't really take that long to draw that.

Also, take some sketches I did beforehand:

I don't know his name yet, but I think his quirk would be something with superspeed. (Might call it slowmotion or reverse slowmotion, depends on how I'll make it work.)

I really like the idea that he has always a pair of sunglasses with him, to avoid dust getring into his eyes while in superspeed. And also to be the coolest kid around 😎

Also his quirk shows in his personality. He's mostly impatient since everything is going too slow for him.

His hero idol is Hawks. He definetly aims to become quicker than him to claim the title as fastest hero.