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[acecroft]

THOMAS DOHERTY as Walter De Ville in The Invitation (2022)

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[aeronuzlockes]

You have boss character consistency skills. I'm low key thinking about starting a script for a comic, and I'm trying to practice my faces so I'm ready when/ifever I start actually drawing it. Do you have any tips, in addition to just straight-up practice, that can help someone nail character consistency?

Oh gosh, thanks! ;w;/Hmmm... Well I'll just ramble a bit talk about my process a bit and maybe it will help or maybe not. X”D

You should absolutely start a comic script. Join the nuz community and link it to me when you start posting!

Okay so right, practice is good. But practice doesn’t make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect (to quote the football coach at my high school). And what I mean by that is if you draw your character ten times ten different ways, that’s not practice that will lead to consistency, it will just help you explore character design.You have to draw them ten times consistency to get better at consistency. Which is probably why consistency is so freaking hard.

So these are some characters I practiced for another comic I’m working on;Silas Wolff and Aharon Hayes

They’re pretty sketchy and you can probably see my process pretty well here when it comes to laying out facial features.1) It helps to draw comparisons between characters because it will help you remember what their most striking features are. Part of consistency is knowing what makes your character stand out from your other characters. And you have to remember what those features are every time you draw them.

Aharon has a more defined, square jaw and chin where Silas’s jawline is smoothed out. Aharon’s brows are lower over his eyes than Silas. Silas’s nose is flat and Grecian where Aharon has a hooked nose. Both have high cheekbones, but Silas’s are more prominent. Aharon has a smooth hairline where Silas’s comes in further at his temples.

2) In Silas’s, the bottom row has three drawings that are at pretty much the same angle and they’re really consistent, right? Expression changes, but the features are all right. I have comic panels around that are like, “wow that looks like you drew that character line-for-line the same!”Yeah. Because most art programs have a magical thing called “copy and paste” and you can copy your own art and use it again and edit what you need to or use it as a sketch and re-ink it. X”DIf you’re doing a progression of expressions like this from the same angle, copy the first finished sketch and put it into another layer and sketch over it. It drives home how to draw them in that angle.In humor, using the exact same line art/art actually drives home the humor.There is no shame in tracing your own art or references. It’s your art. You can do what you want with it. There is no shame in copying your own art and using it as a sketch/base. There is especially no shame when you’re making comics where you have to draw the same thing over and over again. You can’t steal your own art. You can’t plagiarize your own art. Do what you gotta do. It will also save you time and effort. Which I am a fan of for a comic which is offered free of charge. :P

3) In comic process, most people do sketching, inking, coloring ect in structured passes, one page at a time. When I work on comic pages, I actually work at least 3 pages (usually 5) at once. So instead of going through that process on one page, 3 pages are sketched, then they are all inked, then I do the flats and backgrounds individually (and copy and paste backgrounds as needed). That helps keep things more consistent between pages since there’s less time between the pages being sketched and inked.

4) find some face models. Models or actors or friends. Even if they aren’t perfect, just collect a bunch of pictures of them, save them in a folder somewhere, and study them when you’re trying to draw that character. It will also help you draw their features (especially their nose; noses are hard af) in different profiles.

Also it’s worth mentioning that I’ve been drawing most of these characters for 3+ years and over 500 pieces of art. So... You know. Don’t be too hard on yourself. :”DIt’ll take time and perfect practice. Hopefully this helps. ;w;/

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