My final project: Drawing appealing characters with personality
by Emrys Augustus @mrs_gendered
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Meet Rabbit! She's rambunctious, enjoys running around the woods, and collecting flowers to weave into little crowns. She's on her way to getting into trouble but that's a worry for another day.
I had been floating the idea of writing a short story about a girl wearing a rabbit mask and this course presented itself as the perfect opportunity to flesh her out so to speak. There were a few things I got stuck on but it was quickly resolved with the multitude of sketches throughout helping round out the design. Overall I'm thrilled with the final character and can't wait to include her in future projects.
This course was very nicely put together and easy to follow along, which I greatly appreciated! It's a great lesson on character creation and I thoroughly enjoyed taking it as a refresher to prior lessons I've had in the past. I might come back from time to time to refresh myself on the process.
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magdalina.dianova
Teacher PlusThis looks fantastic Emrys! I love the final design and how you rendered it. You've handled the flower design very well so it's not too busy and fits the style of the character. Great job on the mask turnaround as well. Congrats on completing the course!
mrs_gendered
Plus@magdalina_dianova Thank you so much!
iamhackcomic
I’m just a guy but I don’t know anything but I would add a unique feature to the bunny mask because the bunny masks going to be hard to trademark just as a bunny mask like earrings on one of the ears? 
iamhackcomic
@iamhackcomic Because this is cute but you don’t wanna end up with a finding Nemo situation where you really can’t protect your copyright because they use just a regular fish

mrs_gendered
Plus@iamhackcomic Thanks for the suggestion! To be honest I intended the mask itself to be very simple, like something a kid might get at a costume shop, If I go to continue the story past notes and character design then I’ve been considering adding a scribbled star or bandaid.
iamhackcomic
Nice! The bunny ears on a girl is very popular right now because of the American show and I think a Japanese anime had something similar so yeah you just want to have it a little bit different I was thinking maybe a tiny baseball cap between the ears like the people like a mascot on a tiny baseball cap of a person instead of an animal sorry I was just looking at you looking around on domestic and saw this and really liked it
mrs_gendered
Plus@iamhackcomic Do you remember what show it was? I would like to investigate it and avoid future problems in character design.
Without worries! I appreciate the suggestion, it lets me know I was on the right track thinking of adding to the skin.
I apologize for the weird language translation, I just noticed the website is auto translating my English text and it can be just off from what I meant.
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iamhackcomic
Yeah my Spanish stinks I can hear Spanish but I don't speak or really type it much yet but Bob's Burger in America has a character that wears the bunny ears and the Japanese movie that inspired Bob's burgers I can't remember
iamhackcomic
But you're super talented so keep going I don't know what your end plan is but keep producing making whatever you want to make if the character is going to be evil the bunny hat bunny ears having a tiny mask between them that you pull down that covers the bunny ears on the face like so then it looks like a crazy face stressed out by a bunny if you're going to make like a horror movie that would be cool
erisan
I am blown away by your design. I love everything about it, from the process to the final design of the girl. I haven't even started the course but your project has inspired me a lot. If you ever decide to do something with the character I will definitely be there to read it.
Do not worry about the translations, that only adapts to the language in which each person has the website, if you write in English and the other person has the website in English, it is not translated, I suppose that your own messages appear translated because You will have chosen the language as Spanish.
What I think @iamhackcomic was trying to say is that there are a lot of characters that wear bunny ears (not masks) as something representative of their personality. Masks in particular I'm only familiar with a horror comic called "Bunny mask" and a webtoon called "Stagtown" in which in one of the arcs there are boys wearing animal masks, and one of the girls is wearing a rabbit mask.
But I don't think that takes away from your character. Personally, I love the mix between cute and creepy that gives Rabbit the mask, which gives me a super outgoing and smiling personality.
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mrs_gendered
Plus@erisan Thank you for mentioning the language setting!! I had no idea that was an option, had to play where's waldo for a sec. Google will auto-translate most of the time and it's how I've been getting through the written sections of the courses 😂
I'm really glad to hear you love the design! I have a story concept in the rough sketch phase right now and I'm considering doing more afterwards, it's just a matter of finding time and deciding how I wanna do it 😅
vlicarayenfc
It is truly beautiful!!! I love your work 😁
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