hey i want to read your webcomic but the chapters are SO SHORT and pressing the next button so much is kind of aggravating.. pls tell me this improves in the later chapters?
(The "name your artstyle" thing seems to be an AI bro tactic to try and tell the machine how to emulate your art. Never name your style even if you can!)
plus in general, art styles -or art movements- are named when they're dying, not thriving if they dont have a manifesto and specific members eg. pre-raphaelite brotherhood. and even then they're still influenced by whatever art "trend"/movement came before it
The garbage-farting machine doesn't need your art style to have a name. It can use YOUR name. You just say "in the style of" whomever and it will make an effort to fart out some garbage that stupid people would think looks like your work.
I heard people who ask "what is your artstyle called?" are just looking for a prompt for AI stuff (yuck) so I wouldn't recommend answering this question.
Petition that when people ask what your art style is, everyone just starts insisting their art style is realistic (or some obviously wrong art style) so the people asking don’t get an actual answer, and the bots doing it just mess up the AI
2:00 Don't name your style! It gets asked so people can get your specific style out of AI generation programs. One of the funniest ways to do it is to tell them your art style is [not well known lewd word], so when they try to put that into the AI, they get something they weren't expecting.
The Memory loss/Amnesiatrope is one that I feel is used so much, but rarely does it seem to hit its full potential if not done well. And a trope I can relate too in a funny way.
I have an OC that actually puts effort into making the amnesiac work, basically I just made their past extremely important as they are a "chosen one" character, but I lean into that for the lore (and it makes the brother they forgot for *obvious dramatic reasons* that is more interesting left not known until late into the story) linked to many important events and stuff. But yeah, tldr just make the amnesiac actually have a backstory for sillies sake
I absolutely love love "Big sweetheart super precious wanna feed him cookies character using the sweet as a front to hide deep dark traumas" trope. One of my main OCs (that I use to deal with my own traumas) is a good example of it. And it's probably why I love Frankie so much. He deserves so many cookies even though he wouldn't be able to eat them.
Some of my favorite writing tropes are (in no particular order) 1- the villains who are villains due to the flaws of society. Where the problems can’t be solve by punching the villain to death 2- a married couple that actually love each other but is still realistically flawed. 3- the heart of the cast that’s trying their best to make everybody happy all while neglecting their own personal demons and problems. As they learn that sometimes is okay to be selfish 4- found family, as that’s probably my all time favorite trope 5- the gender non-conforming character cuz 🖕🏿gender roles and other dumb societal expiation 6- opposite personality character being best friends and being supportive of each other 7- any romance between opposite people that still have chemistry. Like the bad boy x good girl trope, that’s done really well. 8- any story that subverts/ commentates the genre while still being a love letter to it. And that’s it for now
So the bamboo in Nezuko's mouth isn't about speaking. If I recall, she does say a word or two later on, but even if I'm misremembering it's more to do with preventing her from becoming a full demon. She's eternally hungry for human flesh, but if she consumes human flesh she'll fully become a demon. It's also a reference to ninjas and kitsune having scrolls in their mouths to absorb its knowledge and wisdom.
@@robhillen8007 no, non-ninjas mythologizing ninjas as always holding a scroll, and putting the scroll in their mouth to free up their hands and absorbing the knowledge at the same time, lol. Did you think kitsune were real too? 🤣
@@ShadowDrakken I see now that I may be stupid. In my defense, I have a really bad cold right now, but normally I'm super smart and funny. At least I'm still funny, it seems.
You should check out Jojo's bizarre adventure!!! -thick stylized lineart -lots of metal accessories -very vibrant color palettes -a lot of expressive characters -large variety of eyes -fangs but few and far between - same with elf eared characters -part 6 is entirely based around badass women -there is at least 1 himbo every other part -every battle is a smart off cause they're all written like a puzzle box -part 8 is just a series of secret identities. -amnesiacs that play major roles
4:32 i wanna point out that the example you showed here of braid simplification are actually bubble braids, which is a braid style on its own rather than a simplification for the sake of art
on the subject of amnesia stories: if you havent watched or heard of it already, i recommend the anime Re-main! it's about a boy who was like, The Best at water polo but completely loses his memory after being involved in a terrible accident and while yes it's a sports anime and the amnesia is convenient for explaining the rules to the audience, that is FAR from its only use in the story, they don't squander ANY potential with their premise!! the show is just as much an in-depth character drama centered around the main character's struggle with his past self vs him now and man it's done SO well. also the cast as a whole has great chemistry and the character writing is wonderful they're all so funny & endearing and i just want more people to watch this show and love them with me gdi!!! anyway banger vid everything you mentioned was basically a big SAME moment for me, even like. the ponytails??? it's so specific??? but like I GET IT THEYRE SO GOOD WAAHHH i feel a similar way abt characters in hoodies IDK WHY ITS JUST SO GOOD literally peak character design IMO👌 we love listening to mfers yap abt the things they love that's serotonin babey!!!! ❤
One of my favorite visual design tropes is prosthetic limbs, especially mechanical prosthetics, and yes my love for them is entirely inspired by Edward Elric. Hell, I went by some variation of "man with the metal arm" online for years. They're just so cool and you can have them do so many cool things, you can give them so many cool gadgets and tools integrated into them, and if it's a setting with magic you can also use said magic in creative ways with them. My current DnD character, Vulcan, has a mechanical arm that not only has a suite of blacksmithing tools, but also a blade, he can shoot his fist out on a chain to act as anything between a grappling hook and a flail, I've had him use Heat Metal on it as a heat source and to deal some extra damage if he punches someone, and had him use Produce Flame at the end of one of his mechanical fingers to act as a welding torch
You should play omori, it has a guy who is a little silly and a little dumb who is cheerful and uses that as a front for his tramua (kel) and then we got aubrey, and female character with a tempure who is an emotionally closed off character who keeps people at a distance due to tramua and has the learn to open up and care about people again. Think you would like it
3:22 the reasons here are logical as a demon slayer fan but the thing is why Nezuko has a bamboo on her mouth is to prevent her from eating humans or biting someone, thats the only thing i know about why she has a bamboo on her mouth so-
In no particular order, here’s some tropes that I like because why not: 1) Characters who look nothing like their gender (like a woman with a beard that dresses very “masculine”) 2) Spec bio stuff, love learning about how the species people make function 3) Kaiju. Just Kaiju in general, love me a big bastard 4) Stranger in a strange land, love wonderland like stories where we learn about the world with our main character 5) Evil best friends, just 2 absolute bastards that see eachother as equals and fuck shit up together (this also applies to evil couples) 6) When a characters design intentionally doesnt match their personality (like a guy thats all big and muscular with loads of scars but is actually a total caring sweetheart) 7) Big monster protects and/or cares for small child, just generally super wholesome 8) Guys that are just kinda assholes, I’m picky about this one bc there’s a lot of examples I don’t like but sometimes it can be really fun 9) Bug themed/inspired characters, I LOVE BUGS RAAAAHHHHHHHHH Thats all I can think of but there’s def more lol
thick lineart is so nice, I recommend you check out CherriFire's art, she also does the thumbnails for InTheLittleWood aka Martyn and Two Much Grian any mcyt fans here? :3 edit: THE OH HELLOS MENTION
@@anymousecandraw oh poisoned finch, why do you still sing? was a fanfic i read really early on getting into the rabbit hole of fanfiction so thank you for helping drag me down here 👍
I love how I drop everything to watch this video, watching a guy talk about radiation? Nevermind I’m watching Star draw while talking about art and writing tropes she likes!
I love how star spent the entire "characters that I like" part saying tropes and then sneaking in a castoff character. It left me cackling, especially the second time arianna came up
the whole memory thing is why i love dante from limbus company. dante themselves wants to know who they were in the past and you get to learn more about The City alongside dante who is still learning the ropes. honestly one of my fav characters from the game
18:17 I… well… it certainly worked. Castoff clicked with me the second I read the prologue… you did that masterfully!!! I adore this❤❤❤❤❤❤ thank you so much for making Castoff
Okay but the fact that I have every type of character you talked about in my story, too, down to the fact that the one with the Trauma TM has “Hello my Old Heart” on his character playlist- I- get out of my head 😭
As far as 'interesting eyes' go, I'd recommend checking out the art for Honkai: Star Rail. A lot of the characters have unique eye colours and patterns. Off the top of my head, notable ones are March 7th (whose eyes are pastel blue and pink), Sparkle (who has butterflies in her eyes), and Aventurine (whose eyes are blue and purple rings). March 7th is also an amnesiac character with a completely unknown past. She was found floating in space, encased in magical ice, and her name is taken from the day she was found. The mystery hasn't played a huge part in the story, but it does influence her character to be someone who is very much 'live in the moment' and loves taking photos to record pretty much everything. She has no memory of her past, so she makes the most of making new memories. There was a quest line where she made an attempt to learn about her past but was blocked by Mysterious Forces... HSR is also a gacha game and can be quite a time sink, so be warned about starting it if that's not your thing.
Girl, please tell me you've read House in the Cerulean Sea. It's got characters who use a bright personality to hide their sadness. It has a hidden dragon character. It's so good and strangely wholesome and is such a wonderful example of found family
oooo!! u reminded me of one of my fave things being when the characters appearance changes with their adventures!! like korra and aang and how their hair grows and is cut depending on what they're dealing with! i feel like they don't use this as often in animes but im always so happy whenever i see a character actually effected physically by what's happened in the past
I don't really like any kind of memory loss, but sometimes it can be entertaining. But, with that I totally agree with you, I love the secret identity trope. A lot of my favourite books, movies, comics, etc. have it in one way or another. I also tend to include it in my own works a lot. As well as glowing eyes
18:35 If you see this, I think you'll really like The Glass Scientists by Sage Cotungo! It's a amazing take on Jekyll and Hyde and has a great art style. Jekyll's secret is hidden for most of the comic, but gets VERY close to being reveled multiple times when Hyde starts causing problems. It also doesn't help with the stress of his childhood idol coming to him for a cure to her sickness but absolutely HATES him and the exhibition for his "Society of Arcane Sciences". Any how, I recommend to everyone and if you see this I hope you like it :]
The fun eyessss I love fun eyes so much. I enjoy looking at Genshin/Star Rail eye designs a lot because I want to make my own characters eyes more varied and fun!! Also the point of putting all your favourite things in a webcomic...good point AJSKDKF I really enjoyed this video I feel like I vibe a lot with the stuff you like. Been meaning to read your comic for ages and I really need to get to it cause clearly I like similar stuff to you AJSKFKG
If you like little sunshine guys, thoth angry girls and a world of caos and trauma I recomend the UA-cam series Murder drones from Glitch. I LOVE this series with my whole heart!!!
Tbh I also really like a good secret identity thing going on. That’s why I’ve been so obsessed with The Glass Scientists lately and will talk anyone’s ear off about it every chance I get. Like you’re telling me there’s a fantasy steampunk retelling of Jekyll and Hyde that explores the two more than just “one is good and one is bad” AND leans into the queer subtext of the original novel? Sign me the fuck up!
to add to the amnesiac character trope, YES 100% it's one of my fav tropes too which is why dorohedoro is one of my favorite pieces of media of all time!! the protagonist, kaiman, is an amnesiac human with a giant reptile head and a past shrouded in mystery who spends a majority of the story trying to discover what happened to him. a lot happened. and a lot happens after that. it's just a lot and both the anime and manga are just fever dream after fever dream and i love it. i highly recommend dorohedoro, i absolutely adore the worldbuilding and magic system and it's also got sooo many more of my favorite tropes, some mentioned in this video too! for example, buff strong women. enough said. my main story centers around an amnesiac protagonist as well and dorohedoro in general is a huge inspiration for it :> (despite me beginning to work on my story long before the anime came out) and yeah just wanted to ramble ajdsfhks
7:34 PERFECT because my story is so entirely self serving that it’s tailor made for me. Which is what I was after. It is my baby and all my characters are so precious to me
For me, one of my all time favourite tropes is the "trapped beast", when a character has this great creature sealed in them. Think of the tailed beasts and jinchuriki in Naruto, Ichigo from Bleach, or Sukuna and Itadori in JJK. This idea of a character having to work, somehow, with this beast so powerful, they could wipe our armies all alone, just sounds so cool. It's a main gimmick to my story, though I try to implement that into the politics of my world and how those with these beasts are treated Also isekai. I think isekai, as a plot device and a way to create a setting, is absolutely phenomenal. That said, most isekai/new world series, predominately anime, just can't for the life of them make a story worth literally anything. Very few, like Mushoku Tensei, Konosuba, The Wrong way to use Healing Magic, and early Tensura actually have a story and characters to compliment the idea of an unfamiliar world
STAR I HOPE YOU SEE THIS I WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW I STARTED READING YOUR COMIC A MONTH AGO AND I ENDED UP FINISHING IT IN ONE NIGHT LIKE I WAS SO ADDICTED TO IT
literally got so excited when she said she liked amnesiac charecters cause thats the trope of one of my main cherecters in a story im writing, and to have stars aproval makes me so happy ❤❤❤
Even though it’s been out for a few years, spoilers for the prologue and Act I of Genshin Impact. When you were talking about ‘the unassuming person who is actually a powerful being’ my mind immediately went to Venti and Zhongli.
5:11 Man, I do that too! I think my inspiration for making white pupils was the Deep See Prisoner games? All the characters have white pupils and I liked this detail and after a while I started doing the same. and sometimes depending on the character the pupils will have different shapes. like, one of my characters is a dragon so I draw his pupils sharp and thin.
18:24 You just described the overall plot of the game Charlie in Underworld. It's a text-style visual novel about a ghost named Charlie who, after being trapped in another ghost's keepsake for many years, gets released with all their memories gone. We follow Charlie as they slowly piece together who they once were and learn many other things along the way. If this sounds interesting to you, I highly recommend checking it out! The only thing I'd suggest you to do is playing the previous game, Underworld Office, before you play Charlie in Underworld. It's not like it's required to understand the story, but Underworld Office introduces and lets you get to know most of the characters you'll see in Charlie in Underworld, which is nice. I hope you enjoy these games if you ever check them out!
Talking about how the angry character helped u stick up for yourself: it’s not silly at all. I put a lot of my insecurities into one of ocs and made him figure them out. It’s helped me a lot and it’s oddly therapeutic
Hey Star! I would actually like to recommend a series. This series is called “The Last Kids on Earth” and it is incredibly underrated. Throughout watching the video, I noticed a lot of stuff you like in there! Such as things like characters slowly opening up over time, and the ponytail thing, the character who uses sunshine to cover up pain, the deep dark secret (and it is very much dramatic irony), and the memory loss thing (which is a very important part of the story). It is meant to be more of a kid's book, however there are a lot of deep topics, and it is actually set up in a way where the deeper darker stuff would go right over a kid's head (it certainly went over mine), but for the more mature audiences they can understand more. I really hope you check it out! It is both a book series and a Netflix show with three seasons.
17:48 this is the dnd character I’m drawing now- Hes a skeleton who lost his memories after death, joining adventure parties to help get his memories back. When he gets them back.. he realized he was leading a cult The same cult his party was trying to defeat. (Plus as he gets more memories, he fades more and more into his spirit more)
My absolute favorite character dynamic is two characters who are very outwardly different but inwardly the same. You know, your Pearl and your Amethyst. Great for comedy and drama.
I was going to mention my D&D character in your last stream where you drew your D&D character who has amnesia but she fits better here. She has a lot of things you enjoy about characters. On the surface Crystal is a half dragon sorcerer who is training to be a wizard amd trying to learn about her ancestry. In actuality they were born a human male and followed the voice in their dreams where they met the goddess of the moon who awoke their powers and found out they were living out a second life. (The game was set in Xandria and they were a part of Xhorhas society and was consecuted. They died in the fall of Draconia and was one of the souls reborn when the Luxon the was stolen so they were born to a family outside of Xhorhas. Because they did not grow up correctly, the amnesis process didn't work and the dreams they were having were flashes of their past life. The moon goddess was actually a fae so their class is actually warlock (fae patron with pact of the chain) and they are now learning to be an enchantment wizard so they can make high-society fashion in the form of magical gowns and accessories.) Oh and she uses 'Mask of Many Faces' and clever costuming to keep up her preferred guise of the half-dragon (half dark elf / half dragonborn) because that look is who she feels is most true to herself.
Hey! Demon Slayer fan here! I want to say that at first I was going to punch my laptop because for a second I forgot this was your opinion... embarrassing. Second, I get what you mean, I had to step away for a while before sitting down and watching it myself. Third, I want to say that Demon Slayer (at least in my opinion) was paced that was to show how fast things moved for him in the beginning of his journey. I also feel as though the training arc was necessary to show at least some sort of growth and maturity gained during those episodes. As for Nezuko, the bamboo gag is a way to show that she doesn't need to eat humans to gain strength since she gets it via her sleeping and also (again, how I interpret it) because I think it's also a representation of how her brother gives her strength and helps her not fall to her base instincts (saying it like this or else I will give spoilers ;-;).
Me looking at my OC like: Hey you’ve existed for three YEARS before I knew this channel existed and your Docter Who-esque lore also matches a lot of these writing tropes yet I hadn’t seen either when making you what’s up with that? OC: you’re relatable I guess *useracc will remember that*
Damn I LOVE a disguise trope. When characters are powerful they barely feel like they could lost anything, but when his identity revealed is usually juicy
Specific found family or friendgroup tropes i love: (In a fantasy setting) -Human or not powerful main character that has given up on a lot of things in their life and who has somehow been tasked to travel acros the world with a magical person so that magical person can save the world A bit moody and very confused about what's happening most of the time -Loving wizard father figure who they meet along the way and who likes to goof off with the magical person. Has lived in a small hut for most of their time and has a heart to heart with the main character about trying your best and the beauty of life (probably next to a camp fire or smth) -Shy kid who's the youngest sibling of the group who becomes best friends with the magic person and finds a family in the friend group (Has trauma but doesn't know about it yet and unlearns their low sense of worth while doing fun stuff) -Magic person who has no idea why they're important to the main character's mission. Has been missing for a thousand years and can now see the beauty of the world that has grown over the hundred of years that has passed without them. (People say they where banished away but they're actually scared of the responsibility their powers give them. They learn to ask for help and trust themselves along the way of the journey)
My own web comic has thicker outlines (though not nearly as dynamic) and one of my main characters is an angry female with a ponytail, lol. I love cell-shaded art, especially when it's applied to 3D, like Legend of Zelda Windwaker. You're mystery thing with your comic really worked, I was literally reading the latest page and thinking to myself, "Is this connected to that weird moment at the beginning???"
only at 9:43 right now but i’m very delighted so far to say that everything you’re saying you like in characters are things that i’ve incorporated into MY oc’s and stories :DD
I love videos like this 🩷 One of my favorite tropes is girls badass or bubbly, both can wear dresses and still be who they are. I love drawing a good dress.
12:46 Danny phantom mention while I’m currently drawing dp fan art!!! also I too love characters with ponytails and am experiencing something similar with wanting to put my comic’s MC in a ponytail eventually. There’s just something about them that’s just so fun to draw imo
I'm very neutral on amnesiac characters but Siffrin from In Stars and Time is a huge exception and hits what you mentioned so much. It colors so many facets of ther behavior, they are NOT dealing with it well, and it's not the "hit their head oops who am I" type. When they try to remember something out of instinct... Something happens,and it's gone. It includes basic words. It includes cultural habits. It includes *his name*. It's so amazingly done
13:50 If you haven't watched it yet, I highly recommend Moriarty the Patriot. It's also two smart guys trying to outsmart each other and perfectly fits the description you gave.
6:35 dude. The fact, I could tell exactly who you were describing with the tropes that you like with every character is hysterical to me.😂😂😂😂 it’s really true just put all your favorite tropes into the characters you’re making ❤❤❤❤ the fact I like a lot of these two is just- YAS
I've read castoff (not caught up, I tend to wait with webcomics that only release a page at a time.) I was thinking your artstyle looked familiar and then BAM 3:44 you put the red girl on the screen. Idk why but that genuinely scared scared me lol.
May I recommend a game? It's called The Arcana. It's a dating sim with six different paths. It has a lot of the things you said you liked. (Mystery, amnesiacs, powerful women, softboy himbo, men who are kinda dumb) The storytelling and worldbuilding is really good and each path gives you different information without ever leaving you confused. (As in, the information relevant to path A isn't shown in path B and vice versa, but you get all the information you need to know for each path)
Hearing all the things you like in stories but also further explaining WHAT SPECIFICALLY you like about them was so interesting to hear! 3:22 Can completely agree, I do like Demon Slayer though the pace could use some adjustments. I personally kept watching it because I read the entire manga (which felt... better in pacing? felt natural for it?) so I wanted to see how they would translate that into animation!
We love the same writing tropes!!! I never knew why they always appealed to me, but your Evansto explanations make SO MUCH SENSE in my mind!!! Thanks for the comic recommendation - sound super interesting!!!
I’d recommend seeking out the works of John Allison. He’s been creating webcomics and print comics for over 25 years, and each of his stories share a connected universe, with certain characters having been consistently featured since the very beginning.
If you havent heard of Down To Earth its basically about this guy named Kade who befriends and let's an alien live with him in his house, while trying to be a better person and open up more because of her Zaida is the sweetest alien girl ever
i recognized most of the tropes from previous videos you made and not in a bad way either, i find it really cool to see what people like in stories. btw that oh hellos mention was really nice, i frequently watch their music because its really good
10:30 one of the characters in the book I'm writing has a ponytail. My notes on it are really funny because I wanted to make sure I remembered he had a ponytail so I incorporated it into the story a little. So he's this cool assassin and then the main characters think he super cool because he has a ponytail and the way I wrote it down made it seem like the fact he had a ponytail was the sole reason they wanted him to join their group, lol
Your videos are great to listen to while I draw. I can be inspired while I have the motivation to draw, and while this is literally only the third video I've watched from you I've already improved so much. Thanks! Also, try Shuttle Art paint pens. They've got a bullet nib on one side and a brush nib on the other. They work pretty well [IMO]
I have three main tropes I love: Kento Nanami, Iron Giant, and Luffy - Serious person who’s major character moments are them being tender or loving - a robot/non-sentient character breaking from their intended purpose (bonus points for if they die and they say something the lines of “I’m glad I was able to actually live”) - emotionally driven dummy who is kinda chilled out until they aren’t. Biggest scenes are their reactions to the events they’re experiencing These are like the big three. Nothing else compares
Also you should really check out guilty gear. Any trope a person can like is in that game. Faust is literally me. Best album releases packages with a free game
Think lines and strong shapes combo is Powerpuff Girls and Dexter's Lab, craig mccracken, and genndy tartakovsky respectively! Used to watch them as a kid and now I'm really looking back and appreciating the art of it and monster designs and stuff. XD
I can understand the dislike of Demon Slayer. It doesn’t have the structure and depth to hold your attention if you don’t immediately find Tanjiro and the others endearing. I do, because the unyielding kindness that he enforces on himself feels cool to me. but that’s just the emotional experience I had.
Hold up, right off the bat at 2:50 you talk about interesting linework being held back in anime that commonly has thin linework with little variation being a budget thing. Why is that? Is it just a time saving thing? I would love for you to make a video about art style choices in various media and what the pros and cons are. Like for example, heavy use of shadows in Hellboy comics to make the drawing more manageable/quicker to produce. What are the things in character design that make things harder or easier on animators/comic artists? What are the reasons for common stylistic choices we see in so many things? These are things that are actually hard to research as many videos just kinda scratch the surface of a question I have as I am exploring my own art style and want the tools to make the best choices for what I want to do with it. Some things I've kind of figured out on my own, is that for characters in animation and comics they seem to follow the same rules as they need to be drawn a thousand times over. But I have so many questions still. -Tears and rips following a pattern like big-small-big small seems to be better than random for consistency sake but how do you get it to look torn/raged without being too uniform, but still able to remember the pattern right? -Colored outlines seem to have a very complicated set of rules. How do you get things with color outlined to interact with their environment without it looking weird? Like Char.A has red outline and Char.B has blue, if A gives B a necklace that is their outline color is it going to keep the red of A? Or does it switch to the blue of B? Does everything that touches the char have to change color or do you have to manually go in and recolor the lines. If a character binds another with a lasso or something in one characters hand vs the other its wrapped on, who's color should it be and what's the rule? -Pure 0% black is like, never used as a "color" at all unless for linework or for big blocky shadows or big parts of a character that gets its own special brighter lineart. Everything uses black differently because it seems to poses a set of unique problems. Is there a good way of having a black colored character that doesn't look flat or get lost in the background, without going the lighter rout and making them look grey or blue/purple? -"floating" markings like spots need their own guide map so they are always placed in the right spot, so is there an easy way to do this so its not forgotten/misplaced between shots? -I have noticed close-ups allow more detail while far-out shots greatly simplify, so what rules does an artist make to tell when they should do which level of detail while still staying consistent? I just wish more developed artists like you went over stuff like this as its genuinely hard to find good resources in big chunks, its always breadcrumbs of info in various places across the internet. Great video btw ^.^ Your art is amazing and I get excited to hear your opinions!
Might I recommend the series Welcome to demon school Iruma, the plot is a human kid who gets adopted by a demon to live a happy life and go to demon school where he has to hide the fact he’s human from all his new friends. Also it’s got a few of the things you mentioned in design, key example one of the main characters Clara-pointy ears, unique pupils, and sharp teeth. For fighting and tough female characters you have Amari who kicks butt a lot. In my opinion is really good in plot and art.
Hair is one of the single most important things to me! Since I draw stick figures i mainly use hair and head accessories to tell my characters apart...
my god ghost trick is so good i'm so happy to see it mentioned here! if you enjoy mystery and haven't played them, the zero escape series is also pretty fun (it's the somnium files's creator's previous game series, which you probably already knew haha). Anyway yeah, well done amnesiacs are so juicy and i defs share your sentiments about secret identities as well! i especially love writing those secret dragons myself lmao
Oh, and the games Abzu and Journey might be up your alley! They're both very short and involve the protagonist unraveling the secret of their past; a bit of an amnesiac trope but the player is the one who doesn't know who they are. You can beat them in a couple hours each and they are SO well honed
My favourite writing trope is redemption arcs. Not necessarily in villains, just in any character who has been a bad person. If it's done well, the character that it happened to is automatically my favourite character.
Fun fact: There are two amnesiacs in this art. 👀
I can see Felix, so there’s one of them
I think she’s making fun of Zhongli lol
I'm a sweetheart, who's a goofball
Do I qualify?
Your choice if you want to reply or not, please don't freak out or get angry.
hey i want to read your webcomic but the chapters are SO SHORT and pressing the next button so much is kind of aggravating.. pls tell me this improves in the later chapters?
@@seaah I don't get this complaint? It's like saying turning pages in a book is aggravating
(The "name your artstyle" thing seems to be an AI bro tactic to try and tell the machine how to emulate your art. Never name your style even if you can!)
@@dweeborea That is... Scummy as all hell Jesus
plus in general, art styles -or art movements- are named when they're dying, not thriving if they dont have a manifesto and specific members eg. pre-raphaelite brotherhood. and even then they're still influenced by whatever art "trend"/movement came before it
My art style is "how I draw things"
I am several steps ahead.
The garbage-farting machine doesn't need your art style to have a name. It can use YOUR name. You just say "in the style of" whomever and it will make an effort to fart out some garbage that stupid people would think looks like your work.
I heard people who ask "what is your artstyle called?" are just looking for a prompt for AI stuff (yuck) so I wouldn't recommend answering this question.
Surely they could just write her name in
@@sugarzblossom8168 It would probably just be a starFishFace
I don't like putting labels on things
@@sugarzblossom8168 Not necessarily. The AI would have to be trained on their art and know what "theStarfishface" means when prompted.
Doesn't help that people don't understand the difference between artstyle, aestetic, movement and level of detail
Petition that when people ask what your art style is, everyone just starts insisting their art style is realistic (or some obviously wrong art style) so the people asking don’t get an actual answer, and the bots doing it just mess up the AI
That's a good idea, another i recommend doing is when someone asks you what ur art style is than just say a random insult from any language you want.
@@Imane_ninou From now one I'm gonna say that my art style is named trou du cul
@@Imxxyourxxsenorita eheh 👀
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@@ActuallyRea holy shit a fellow Somnium Files fan 0.o
Hi, June!! Watched your video yesterday!
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2:00 Don't name your style! It gets asked so people can get your specific style out of AI generation programs. One of the funniest ways to do it is to tell them your art style is [not well known lewd word], so when they try to put that into the AI, they get something they weren't expecting.
[Evil Laughter]
I hate ai with a burning passion
My art style is Tokyo Sandblaster
Would say my art style is wonder bread then lol
@@Kazekai_AJ You're wasting your energy. Go improve yourself
The Memory loss/Amnesiatrope is one that I feel is used so much, but rarely does it seem to hit its full potential if not done well. And a trope I can relate too in a funny way.
I have an OC that actually puts effort into making the amnesiac work, basically I just made their past extremely important as they are a "chosen one" character, but I lean into that for the lore (and it makes the brother they forgot for *obvious dramatic reasons* that is more interesting left not known until late into the story) linked to many important events and stuff. But yeah, tldr just make the amnesiac actually have a backstory for sillies sake
JoJolion
I absolutely love love "Big sweetheart super precious wanna feed him cookies character using the sweet as a front to hide deep dark traumas" trope. One of my main OCs (that I use to deal with my own traumas) is a good example of it.
And it's probably why I love Frankie so much. He deserves so many cookies even though he wouldn't be able to eat them.
Some of my favorite writing tropes are (in no particular order)
1- the villains who are villains due to the flaws of society. Where the problems can’t be solve by punching the villain to death
2- a married couple that actually love each other but is still realistically flawed.
3- the heart of the cast that’s trying their best to make everybody happy all while neglecting their own personal demons and problems. As they learn that sometimes is okay to be selfish
4- found family, as that’s probably my all time favorite trope
5- the gender non-conforming character cuz 🖕🏿gender roles and other dumb societal expiation
6- opposite personality character being best friends and being supportive of each other
7- any romance between opposite people that still have chemistry. Like the bad boy x good girl trope, that’s done really well.
8- any story that subverts/ commentates the genre while still being a love letter to it.
And that’s it for now
Found family I’d the GOAT! The GOAT!
For 3 I _highly_ recommend the webcomic Space Boy, it’s dealing with that very thing right now, in a very well-done way.
Based off of this, I would recommend to you the Webtoon Marionetta, it has almost all of the things you listed!
lavendertowne is an artist who's really good at the fun pupils!
So the bamboo in Nezuko's mouth isn't about speaking. If I recall, she does say a word or two later on, but even if I'm misremembering it's more to do with preventing her from becoming a full demon. She's eternally hungry for human flesh, but if she consumes human flesh she'll fully become a demon. It's also a reference to ninjas and kitsune having scrolls in their mouths to absorb its knowledge and wisdom.
There's no way ninjas thought they could get smarter by eating books. That's too funny.
@@robhillen8007 no, non-ninjas mythologizing ninjas as always holding a scroll, and putting the scroll in their mouth to free up their hands and absorbing the knowledge at the same time, lol. Did you think kitsune were real too? 🤣
@@ShadowDrakken I see now that I may be stupid. In my defense, I have a really bad cold right now, but normally I'm super smart and funny. At least I'm still funny, it seems.
@@robhillen8007 not stupid, I never said or intended that meaning. My apologies
@@ShadowDrakken That's good to hear. I was mostly laughing at myself for my blunder.
18:07 media that has you asking questions in general is honestly my favorite part of any sort of story
You should check out Jojo's bizarre adventure!!!
-thick stylized lineart
-lots of metal accessories
-very vibrant color palettes
-a lot of expressive characters
-large variety of eyes
-fangs but few and far between
- same with elf eared characters
-part 6 is entirely based around badass women
-there is at least 1 himbo every other part
-every battle is a smart off cause they're all written like a puzzle box
-part 8 is just a series of secret identities.
-amnesiacs that play major roles
Ikr I was expecting her to mention it for a few of things she was listing! (And Bucciarati best male group mom)
4:32 i wanna point out that the example you showed here of braid simplification are actually bubble braids, which is a braid style on its own rather than a simplification for the sake of art
on the subject of amnesia stories: if you havent watched or heard of it already, i recommend the anime Re-main! it's about a boy who was like, The Best at water polo but completely loses his memory after being involved in a terrible accident and while yes it's a sports anime and the amnesia is convenient for explaining the rules to the audience, that is FAR from its only use in the story, they don't squander ANY potential with their premise!! the show is just as much an in-depth character drama centered around the main character's struggle with his past self vs him now and man it's done SO well. also the cast as a whole has great chemistry and the character writing is wonderful they're all so funny & endearing and i just want more people to watch this show and love them with me gdi!!!
anyway banger vid everything you mentioned was basically a big SAME moment for me, even like. the ponytails??? it's so specific??? but like I GET IT THEYRE SO GOOD WAAHHH i feel a similar way abt characters in hoodies IDK WHY ITS JUST SO GOOD literally peak character design IMO👌
we love listening to mfers yap abt the things they love that's serotonin babey!!!! ❤
One of my favorite visual design tropes is prosthetic limbs, especially mechanical prosthetics, and yes my love for them is entirely inspired by Edward Elric. Hell, I went by some variation of "man with the metal arm" online for years. They're just so cool and you can have them do so many cool things, you can give them so many cool gadgets and tools integrated into them, and if it's a setting with magic you can also use said magic in creative ways with them. My current DnD character, Vulcan, has a mechanical arm that not only has a suite of blacksmithing tools, but also a blade, he can shoot his fist out on a chain to act as anything between a grappling hook and a flail, I've had him use Heat Metal on it as a heat source and to deal some extra damage if he punches someone, and had him use Produce Flame at the end of one of his mechanical fingers to act as a welding torch
You should play omori, it has a guy who is a little silly and a little dumb who is cheerful and uses that as a front for his tramua (kel) and then we got aubrey, and female character with a tempure who is an emotionally closed off character who keeps people at a distance due to tramua and has the learn to open up and care about people again. Think you would like it
3:22 the reasons here are logical as a demon slayer fan but the thing is why Nezuko has a bamboo on her mouth is to prevent her from eating humans or biting someone, thats the only thing i know about why she has a bamboo on her mouth so-
In no particular order, here’s some tropes that I like because why not:
1) Characters who look nothing like their gender (like a woman with a beard that dresses very “masculine”)
2) Spec bio stuff, love learning about how the species people make function
3) Kaiju. Just Kaiju in general, love me a big bastard
4) Stranger in a strange land, love wonderland like stories where we learn about the world with our main character
5) Evil best friends, just 2 absolute bastards that see eachother as equals and fuck shit up together (this also applies to evil couples)
6) When a characters design intentionally doesnt match their personality (like a guy thats all big and muscular with loads of scars but is actually a total caring sweetheart)
7) Big monster protects and/or cares for small child, just generally super wholesome
8) Guys that are just kinda assholes, I’m picky about this one bc there’s a lot of examples I don’t like but sometimes it can be really fun
9) Bug themed/inspired characters, I LOVE BUGS RAAAAHHHHHHHHH
Thats all I can think of but there’s def more lol
thick lineart is so nice, I recommend you check out CherriFire's art, she also does the thumbnails for InTheLittleWood aka Martyn and Two Much Grian
any mcyt fans here? :3
edit: THE OH HELLOS MENTION
ayyyy
was not expecting this lol
@@anymousecandraw i think i recognise your username - do you write fanfic on ao3?
@@elliesher-j7i i do lol
@@anymousecandraw oh poisoned finch, why do you still sing? was a fanfic i read really early on getting into the rabbit hole of fanfiction so thank you for helping drag me down here 👍
I love how I drop everything to watch this video, watching a guy talk about radiation? Nevermind I’m watching Star draw while talking about art and writing tropes she likes!
I love how star spent the entire "characters that I like" part saying tropes and then sneaking in a castoff character. It left me cackling, especially the second time arianna came up
the whole memory thing is why i love dante from limbus company. dante themselves wants to know who they were in the past and you get to learn more about The City alongside dante who is still learning the ropes. honestly one of my fav characters from the game
omg twewy, ghost trick, and aitsf LITERALLY IMPECCABLE TASTE and might i add your shading and highlights are also on point 🙏
7:15 Ma’am, even your persona has them.
5:02 the cat😭
Cat :0
Cat :O
Gato :o
INGRESS MENTIONED! God, it's such a gorgeous comic.
18:17 I… well… it certainly worked. Castoff clicked with me the second I read the prologue… you did that masterfully!!! I adore this❤❤❤❤❤❤ thank you so much for making Castoff
Okay but the fact that I have every type of character you talked about in my story, too, down to the fact that the one with the Trauma TM has “Hello my Old Heart” on his character playlist- I- get out of my head 😭
14:55 when you were talking about the secret identity section and the character of secretly not being human I was instantly chanting Frankie😂😂😂😂😂
As far as 'interesting eyes' go, I'd recommend checking out the art for Honkai: Star Rail. A lot of the characters have unique eye colours and patterns. Off the top of my head, notable ones are March 7th (whose eyes are pastel blue and pink), Sparkle (who has butterflies in her eyes), and Aventurine (whose eyes are blue and purple rings).
March 7th is also an amnesiac character with a completely unknown past. She was found floating in space, encased in magical ice, and her name is taken from the day she was found. The mystery hasn't played a huge part in the story, but it does influence her character to be someone who is very much 'live in the moment' and loves taking photos to record pretty much everything. She has no memory of her past, so she makes the most of making new memories. There was a quest line where she made an attempt to learn about her past but was blocked by Mysterious Forces...
HSR is also a gacha game and can be quite a time sink, so be warned about starting it if that's not your thing.
Girl, please tell me you've read House in the Cerulean Sea. It's got characters who use a bright personality to hide their sadness. It has a hidden dragon character. It's so good and strangely wholesome and is such a wonderful example of found family
oooo!! u reminded me of one of my fave things being when the characters appearance changes with their adventures!! like korra and aang and how their hair grows and is cut depending on what they're dealing with! i feel like they don't use this as often in animes but im always so happy whenever i see a character actually effected physically by what's happened in the past
I don't really like any kind of memory loss, but sometimes it can be entertaining. But, with that I totally agree with you, I love the secret identity trope. A lot of my favourite books, movies, comics, etc. have it in one way or another. I also tend to include it in my own works a lot. As well as glowing eyes
18:35 If you see this, I think you'll really like The Glass Scientists by Sage Cotungo! It's a amazing take on Jekyll and Hyde and has a great art style. Jekyll's secret is hidden for most of the comic, but gets VERY close to being reveled multiple times when Hyde starts causing problems. It also doesn't help with the stress of his childhood idol coming to him for a cure to her sickness but absolutely HATES him and the exhibition for his "Society of Arcane Sciences". Any how, I recommend to everyone and if you see this I hope you like it :]
The fun eyessss I love fun eyes so much. I enjoy looking at Genshin/Star Rail eye designs a lot because I want to make my own characters eyes more varied and fun!!
Also the point of putting all your favourite things in a webcomic...good point AJSKDKF
I really enjoyed this video I feel like I vibe a lot with the stuff you like. Been meaning to read your comic for ages and I really need to get to it cause clearly I like similar stuff to you AJSKFKG
If you like little sunshine guys, thoth angry girls and a world of caos and trauma I recomend the UA-cam series Murder drones from Glitch. I LOVE this series with my whole heart!!!
Tbh I also really like a good secret identity thing going on. That’s why I’ve been so obsessed with The Glass Scientists lately and will talk anyone’s ear off about it every chance I get. Like you’re telling me there’s a fantasy steampunk retelling of Jekyll and Hyde that explores the two more than just “one is good and one is bad” AND leans into the queer subtext of the original novel? Sign me the fuck up!
For writing, I love stories that have prophesies. Like the big goal like breaking a huge curse that effects alot of characters in a story 😋
to add to the amnesiac character trope, YES 100% it's one of my fav tropes too which is why dorohedoro is one of my favorite pieces of media of all time!! the protagonist, kaiman, is an amnesiac human with a giant reptile head and a past shrouded in mystery who spends a majority of the story trying to discover what happened to him. a lot happened. and a lot happens after that. it's just a lot and both the anime and manga are just fever dream after fever dream and i love it.
i highly recommend dorohedoro, i absolutely adore the worldbuilding and magic system and it's also got sooo many more of my favorite tropes, some mentioned in this video too! for example, buff strong women. enough said.
my main story centers around an amnesiac protagonist as well and dorohedoro in general is a huge inspiration for it :> (despite me beginning to work on my story long before the anime came out)
and yeah just wanted to ramble ajdsfhks
7:34 PERFECT because my story is so entirely self serving that it’s tailor made for me. Which is what I was after. It is my baby and all my characters are so precious to me
For me, one of my all time favourite tropes is the "trapped beast", when a character has this great creature sealed in them. Think of the tailed beasts and jinchuriki in Naruto, Ichigo from Bleach, or Sukuna and Itadori in JJK. This idea of a character having to work, somehow, with this beast so powerful, they could wipe our armies all alone, just sounds so cool. It's a main gimmick to my story, though I try to implement that into the politics of my world and how those with these beasts are treated
Also isekai. I think isekai, as a plot device and a way to create a setting, is absolutely phenomenal. That said, most isekai/new world series, predominately anime, just can't for the life of them make a story worth literally anything. Very few, like Mushoku Tensei, Konosuba, The Wrong way to use Healing Magic, and early Tensura actually have a story and characters to compliment the idea of an unfamiliar world
STAR I HOPE YOU SEE THIS I WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW I STARTED READING YOUR COMIC A MONTH AGO AND I ENDED UP FINISHING IT IN ONE NIGHT LIKE I WAS SO ADDICTED TO IT
16:14 I still think about the prologue, even though we’re at chapter 12- so you’ve done us all a service
4:41 i was always in love with that kind of artstyle and never got to define it. Now I want to find somebody who has mastered it, but they're so rare
literally got so excited when she said she liked amnesiac charecters cause thats the trope of one of my main cherecters in a story im writing, and to have stars aproval makes me so happy ❤❤❤
Even though it’s been out for a few years, spoilers for the prologue and Act I of Genshin Impact.
When you were talking about ‘the unassuming person who is actually a powerful being’ my mind immediately went to Venti and Zhongli.
5:11 Man, I do that too! I think my inspiration for making white pupils was the Deep See Prisoner games? All the characters have white pupils and I liked this detail and after a while I started doing the same. and sometimes depending on the character the pupils will have different shapes. like, one of my characters is a dragon so I draw his pupils sharp and thin.
You have no idea how excited I was to see the kitties. I said "OMG ITS A CAT" making my dog give me a weird look. ❤
5:03 HELP NOT THE RANDOM CAT- XDDD
18:24 You just described the overall plot of the game Charlie in Underworld. It's a text-style visual novel about a ghost named Charlie who, after being trapped in another ghost's keepsake for many years, gets released with all their memories gone. We follow Charlie as they slowly piece together who they once were and learn many other things along the way. If this sounds interesting to you, I highly recommend checking it out! The only thing I'd suggest you to do is playing the previous game, Underworld Office, before you play Charlie in Underworld. It's not like it's required to understand the story, but Underworld Office introduces and lets you get to know most of the characters you'll see in Charlie in Underworld, which is nice. I hope you enjoy these games if you ever check them out!
Talking about how the angry character helped u stick up for yourself: it’s not silly at all. I put a lot of my insecurities into one of ocs and made him figure them out. It’s helped me a lot and it’s oddly therapeutic
Hey Star! I would actually like to recommend a series. This series is called “The Last Kids on Earth” and it is incredibly underrated. Throughout watching the video, I noticed a lot of stuff you like in there! Such as things like characters slowly opening up over time, and the ponytail thing, the character who uses sunshine to cover up pain, the deep dark secret (and it is very much dramatic irony), and the memory loss thing (which is a very important part of the story). It is meant to be more of a kid's book, however there are a lot of deep topics, and it is actually set up in a way where the deeper darker stuff would go right over a kid's head (it certainly went over mine), but for the more mature audiences they can understand more. I really hope you check it out! It is both a book series and a Netflix show with three seasons.
17:48 this is the dnd character I’m drawing now-
Hes a skeleton who lost his memories after death, joining adventure parties to help get his memories back.
When he gets them back.. he realized he was leading a cult
The same cult his party was trying to defeat.
(Plus as he gets more memories, he fades more and more into his spirit more)
10:15. Ok star, I’ll read your webcomic.
My absolute favorite character dynamic is two characters who are very outwardly different but inwardly the same. You know, your Pearl and your Amethyst. Great for comedy and drama.
YES! FINALLY! SOMEONE ELSE WHO LIKES PONYTAILS!
I was going to mention my D&D character in your last stream where you drew your D&D character who has amnesia but she fits better here. She has a lot of things you enjoy about characters. On the surface Crystal is a half dragon sorcerer who is training to be a wizard amd trying to learn about her ancestry. In actuality they were born a human male and followed the voice in their dreams where they met the goddess of the moon who awoke their powers and found out they were living out a second life.
(The game was set in Xandria and they were a part of Xhorhas society and was consecuted. They died in the fall of Draconia and was one of the souls reborn when the Luxon the was stolen so they were born to a family outside of Xhorhas. Because they did not grow up correctly, the amnesis process didn't work and the dreams they were having were flashes of their past life. The moon goddess was actually a fae so their class is actually warlock (fae patron with pact of the chain) and they are now learning to be an enchantment wizard so they can make high-society fashion in the form of magical gowns and accessories.) Oh and she uses 'Mask of Many Faces' and clever costuming to keep up her preferred guise of the half-dragon (half dark elf / half dragonborn) because that look is who she feels is most true to herself.
Hey! Demon Slayer fan here! I want to say that at first I was going to punch my laptop because for a second I forgot this was your opinion... embarrassing. Second, I get what you mean, I had to step away for a while before sitting down and watching it myself. Third, I want to say that Demon Slayer (at least in my opinion) was paced that was to show how fast things moved for him in the beginning of his journey. I also feel as though the training arc was necessary to show at least some sort of growth and maturity gained during those episodes. As for Nezuko, the bamboo gag is a way to show that she doesn't need to eat humans to gain strength since she gets it via her sleeping and also (again, how I interpret it) because I think it's also a representation of how her brother gives her strength and helps her not fall to her base instincts (saying it like this or else I will give spoilers ;-;).
Me looking at my OC like: Hey you’ve existed for three YEARS before I knew this channel existed and your Docter Who-esque lore also matches a lot of these writing tropes yet I hadn’t seen either when making you what’s up with that?
OC: you’re relatable I guess
*useracc will remember that*
Damn I LOVE a disguise trope. When characters are powerful they barely feel like they could lost anything, but when his identity revealed is usually juicy
Specific found family or friendgroup tropes i love:
(In a fantasy setting)
-Human or not powerful main character that has given up on a lot of things in their life and who has somehow been tasked to travel acros the world with a magical person so that magical person can save the world
A bit moody and very confused about what's happening most of the time
-Loving wizard father figure who they meet along the way and who likes to goof off with the magical person.
Has lived in a small hut for most of their time and has a heart to heart with the main character about trying your best and the beauty of life (probably next to a camp fire or smth)
-Shy kid who's the youngest sibling of the group who becomes best friends with the magic person and finds a family in the friend group
(Has trauma but doesn't know about it yet and unlearns their low sense of worth while doing fun stuff)
-Magic person who has no idea why they're important to the main character's mission. Has been missing for a thousand years and can now see the beauty of the world that has grown over the hundred of years that has passed without them.
(People say they where banished away but they're actually scared of the responsibility their powers give them. They learn to ask for help and trust themselves along the way of the journey)
I hope you NEVER STOP making videos! I LOVE listening to you while drawing at 3am. Keeps me from being scared of those classic 3am noises
My own web comic has thicker outlines (though not nearly as dynamic) and one of my main characters is an angry female with a ponytail, lol.
I love cell-shaded art, especially when it's applied to 3D, like Legend of Zelda Windwaker.
You're mystery thing with your comic really worked, I was literally reading the latest page and thinking to myself, "Is this connected to that weird moment at the beginning???"
only at 9:43 right now but i’m very delighted so far to say that everything you’re saying you like in characters are things that i’ve incorporated into MY oc’s and stories :DD
I love videos like this 🩷
One of my favorite tropes is girls badass or bubbly, both can wear dresses and still be who they are. I love drawing a good dress.
12:46 Danny phantom mention while I’m currently drawing dp fan art!!!
also I too love characters with ponytails and am experiencing something similar with wanting to put my comic’s MC in a ponytail eventually. There’s just something about them that’s just so fun to draw imo
I'm very neutral on amnesiac characters but Siffrin from In Stars and Time is a huge exception and hits what you mentioned so much.
It colors so many facets of ther behavior, they are NOT dealing with it well, and it's not the "hit their head oops who am I" type. When they try to remember something out of instinct... Something happens,and it's gone. It includes basic words. It includes cultural habits. It includes *his name*.
It's so amazingly done
13:50 If you haven't watched it yet, I highly recommend Moriarty the Patriot. It's also two smart guys trying to outsmart each other and perfectly fits the description you gave.
6:35 dude. The fact, I could tell exactly who you were describing with the tropes that you like with every character is hysterical to me.😂😂😂😂 it’s really true just put all your favorite tropes into the characters you’re making ❤❤❤❤ the fact I like a lot of these two is just- YAS
How did I miss getting gifted a membership? What a great surprise! Love the video!!
I've read castoff (not caught up, I tend to wait with webcomics that only release a page at a time.) I was thinking your artstyle looked familiar and then BAM 3:44 you put the red girl on the screen. Idk why but that genuinely scared scared me lol.
16:47 (glances at Lapis cutely)
When I subconciously made a book with all the characters described by you. LMAO
May I recommend a game?
It's called The Arcana. It's a dating sim with six different paths. It has a lot of the things you said you liked. (Mystery, amnesiacs, powerful women, softboy himbo, men who are kinda dumb)
The storytelling and worldbuilding is really good and each path gives you different information without ever leaving you confused. (As in, the information relevant to path A isn't shown in path B and vice versa, but you get all the information you need to know for each path)
Hearing all the things you like in stories but also further explaining WHAT SPECIFICALLY you like about them was so interesting to hear!
3:22 Can completely agree, I do like Demon Slayer though the pace could use some adjustments. I personally kept watching it because I read the entire manga (which felt... better in pacing? felt natural for it?) so I wanted to see how they would translate that into animation!
We love the same writing tropes!!! I never knew why they always appealed to me, but your Evansto explanations make SO MUCH SENSE in my mind!!!
Thanks for the comic recommendation - sound super interesting!!!
I’d recommend seeking out the works of John Allison. He’s been creating webcomics and print comics for over 25 years, and each of his stories share a connected universe, with certain characters having been consistently featured since the very beginning.
If you havent heard of Down To Earth its basically about this guy named Kade who befriends and let's an alien live with him in his house, while trying to be a better person and open up more because of her
Zaida is the sweetest alien girl ever
i recognized most of the tropes from previous videos you made and not in a bad way either, i find it really cool to see what people like in stories. btw that oh hellos mention was really nice, i frequently watch their music because its really good
I think you'd love "Sea of Stars". Garlic is a lovely himbo, Sarai and Valerie know how to clobber, and the setting is colorful and up-beat.
" I love female characters who get to be pissed"
Sasha Waybright anyone?
4:26 for me the two that come to mind are rise of tmnt and ghost trick. I wanna DEVOUR those art styles
4:42 THERE WE GO
10:30 one of the characters in the book I'm writing has a ponytail. My notes on it are really funny because I wanted to make sure I remembered he had a ponytail so I incorporated it into the story a little.
So he's this cool assassin and then the main characters think he super cool because he has a ponytail and the way I wrote it down made it seem like the fact he had a ponytail was the sole reason they wanted him to join their group, lol
Your videos are great to listen to while I draw. I can be inspired while I have the motivation to draw, and while this is literally only the third video I've watched from you I've already improved so much. Thanks!
Also, try Shuttle Art paint pens. They've got a bullet nib on one side and a brush nib on the other. They work pretty well [IMO]
I have three main tropes I love: Kento Nanami, Iron Giant, and Luffy
- Serious person who’s major character moments are them being tender or loving
- a robot/non-sentient character breaking from their intended purpose (bonus points for if they die and they say something the lines of “I’m glad I was able to actually live”)
- emotionally driven dummy who is kinda chilled out until they aren’t. Biggest scenes are their reactions to the events they’re experiencing
These are like the big three. Nothing else compares
Also you should really check out guilty gear. Any trope a person can like is in that game. Faust is literally me. Best album releases packages with a free game
i love how star advertises her comic sm
Think lines and strong shapes combo is Powerpuff Girls and Dexter's Lab, craig mccracken, and genndy tartakovsky respectively! Used to watch them as a kid and now I'm really looking back and appreciating the art of it and monster designs and stuff. XD
I can understand the dislike of Demon Slayer. It doesn’t have the structure and depth to hold your attention if you don’t immediately find Tanjiro and the others endearing. I do, because the unyielding kindness that he enforces on himself feels cool to me. but that’s just the emotional experience I had.
Hold up, right off the bat at 2:50 you talk about interesting linework being held back in anime that commonly has thin linework with little variation being a budget thing. Why is that? Is it just a time saving thing?
I would love for you to make a video about art style choices in various media and what the pros and cons are. Like for example, heavy use of shadows in Hellboy comics to make the drawing more manageable/quicker to produce. What are the things in character design that make things harder or easier on animators/comic artists? What are the reasons for common stylistic choices we see in so many things? These are things that are actually hard to research as many videos just kinda scratch the surface of a question I have as I am exploring my own art style and want the tools to make the best choices for what I want to do with it.
Some things I've kind of figured out on my own, is that for characters in animation and comics they seem to follow the same rules as they need to be drawn a thousand times over. But I have so many questions still.
-Tears and rips following a pattern like big-small-big small seems to be better than random for consistency sake but how do you get it to look torn/raged without being too uniform, but still able to remember the pattern right?
-Colored outlines seem to have a very complicated set of rules. How do you get things with color outlined to interact with their environment without it looking weird? Like Char.A has red outline and Char.B has blue, if A gives B a necklace that is their outline color is it going to keep the red of A? Or does it switch to the blue of B? Does everything that touches the char have to change color or do you have to manually go in and recolor the lines. If a character binds another with a lasso or something in one characters hand vs the other its wrapped on, who's color should it be and what's the rule?
-Pure 0% black is like, never used as a "color" at all unless for linework or for big blocky shadows or big parts of a character that gets its own special brighter lineart. Everything uses black differently because it seems to poses a set of unique problems. Is there a good way of having a black colored character that doesn't look flat or get lost in the background, without going the lighter rout and making them look grey or blue/purple?
-"floating" markings like spots need their own guide map so they are always placed in the right spot, so is there an easy way to do this so its not forgotten/misplaced between shots?
-I have noticed close-ups allow more detail while far-out shots greatly simplify, so what rules does an artist make to tell when they should do which level of detail while still staying consistent?
I just wish more developed artists like you went over stuff like this as its genuinely hard to find good resources in big chunks, its always breadcrumbs of info in various places across the internet.
Great video btw ^.^ Your art is amazing and I get excited to hear your opinions!
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Might I recommend the series Welcome to demon school Iruma, the plot is a human kid who gets adopted by a demon to live a happy life and go to demon school where he has to hide the fact he’s human from all his new friends. Also it’s got a few of the things you mentioned in design, key example one of the main characters Clara-pointy ears, unique pupils, and sharp teeth. For fighting and tough female characters you have Amari who kicks butt a lot. In my opinion is really good in plot and art.
Literally just describing everything I love and do
Hair is one of the single most important things to me! Since I draw stick figures i mainly use hair and head accessories to tell my characters apart...
my god ghost trick is so good i'm so happy to see it mentioned here! if you enjoy mystery and haven't played them, the zero escape series is also pretty fun (it's the somnium files's creator's previous game series, which you probably already knew haha). Anyway yeah, well done amnesiacs are so juicy and i defs share your sentiments about secret identities as well! i especially love writing those secret dragons myself lmao
Bro, j named my artsyle "autistic mess" so whenever sombdiy asks if my artsyle has a name thats my reply
Spo8ler alert:they never ask again💀
Oh, and the games Abzu and Journey might be up your alley! They're both very short and involve the protagonist unraveling the secret of their past; a bit of an amnesiac trope but the player is the one who doesn't know who they are. You can beat them in a couple hours each and they are SO well honed
9:07 Himbo is the peak archetype
Honestly just looking at your visual list i can already you'll LOVE lego monkiekid!
My favourite writing trope is redemption arcs. Not necessarily in villains, just in any character who has been a bad person. If it's done well, the character that it happened to is automatically my favourite character.