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There
is something that is very interesting when you
make a character for a story, and is the idea
about creating two different stories on the character:
the first one is the story of the character itself,
how it works in the story, and the other one is
the graphic story of the same character.
¿Graphic
story? ¿What is that?
¿Can I eat it?
No...
Ladies and gentlemen... You cannot eat it... It’s
about the development of the character itself,
the way of how you draw it. If you want an example,
see the appearance of Mickey Mouse; this character
has changed a lot with the time. If you don’t
believe me, check the images of Fig.1. They
are not too big, but I think that is not necessary
to have them too big. Don’t see the clothes,
they are obvious, look at the faces, there are
some differences, but the most important, I think,
are the eyes.
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the
shapes, the way you take some fashions
ideas or simply when you change your
mind about something on the character
looking.
My character Karen has lived "in
her own flesh" this transforms
and has changed a lot since I create
her. These changes have been all-good.
My intention of make her beautiful and
delicate can be seen in the results.
The most representative change, in my
opinion, and just like the eyes for
Mickey Mouse, in Karen is the projection
of the base of the tufts in her hair.
If you see the first drawings (left
to right), you will see that the base
of the tufts haves a point that projects
to the bottom of the face. In the newer
ones, like the last drawing of the right,
that point does not exist, been replaced
by something like an "entry"
that makes the face of Karen a little
more spacious. At the same time, the
tufts of hair are bigger in the newer
drawings, and the space of the forehead
is smaller than the older ones. Of course,
other changes have appeared with the
time, but by now I will not talk about
them.
Because
I have used more time drawing my character
Karen than the other characters, she
has suffered more changes than the others.
There are some differences in my other
character Hiroaki too, but I will write
about them in the future. |
Fig. 2 Development of Karen Isuma. Left
image: Oldest appearance. Right image:
Actual appearance. Three middle images:
Represents her changes. |
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Now,
this class of hard changes happens just when you
draw a character a lot during a big period of
time. Is the insistence that, with the time, produce
changes that appears when you understand better
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