Aka-Chan: Character Designs (Blog#12)

Even if you've never drawn in a sketchbook, painted a canvas, messed around in Photoshop or doodled on your math assignemtn that's due in seven minutes, there's a high chance that even once in your life you've thought, "wow, that would-" and then insert something positive about whatever you see and in whatever format you think of.
For me, anything can set off a thought of a new character for a short story, comic or Novel.
Today, let's look at how I designed my characters for a Novel I'm writing.



Above is an image that I made up in Photoshop a while back when I was first designing characters. The story plot was that I wanted a girl to have her identity erased from all the world's memory.
But anyway!

Origionally I was thinking that I wanted her to be a really girly character- wearing skirts and having bleached blonde hair. But then I was thinking that I wanted her to resemble who I want to be.

Pumpkin orange hair, can stand up for herself, is loved unconditionally by her boyfriend and is thin

Though I have dark blonde hair, can't stand up for myself at all and I'm now boyfriend-less, I didn't care!



And so, character design started.

Because I am obsessed with Final Fantasy and Assassin's Creed, those kinds of designs came out first. I took Ezio from AC 2's outfit, made it blue instead of red and sculpted it to fit a female- and it looked really good!

But even if you're happy with something right off the bat, keep going with more ideas; this is a skill I'm starting to learn that I need.

So I tried out Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy, Ulquiorra and Halibel from Bleach, and so many others!!

But you always want a character who represents you, represent you. Right?
I started looking at Lolita Fashions that I've always wanted to be able to fit into (But because of my weight I'd look really stupid.)



The final design was based on the Assassin Creed character, and I ended up with an unusual-looking character.
Her name is a secret, but for fun let's call her Aka. Aka has pumpkin ornage hair, and as you can see her outfit is designed tight-fitted so that she can fight properly and efficiently.
(I apoligize that there is no image, the file is currently too big to upload.)

Oh, I forgot to mention, it's a fighting story.

Anyway, she holds her assassin gear in pockets and has two hidden blades.
I hope my character design inspired you at all to start thinking of your own!!