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Let me share the origin story of a character that inspired me: “An athlete football player and his potential love interest, are briefly kidnapped by a mad scientist, who built a rocket which launches all 3 of them into space and lands on an alien planet.” In case you’re wondering, this is the origin story of the 1980 movie version of Flash Gordon, but I do think that this could make a good template for the origin story of my protagonist, with a few tweaks and modifications. What do you think?

Thanks for the correction and explanation why understanding the physical makeup of real life is a must in order to draw ideas in a highly skilled and attractive way! I learned the hard way, but your effort cut the time wasting short. Going to fix it right now. God Bless you Brookes Eggleston.

Mind me asking something? I know it is slightly off topic, but still has to do with drawing. You ever have trouble coming up with 1.)Creating a pose for a certain character? 2.)Creating a new unique hair style for a character? Hope I am not being rude by asking this, but it’s what I am struggling with now days. I hope you can maybe cover these topics in a future video.

Best example of a character one loves to hate I can think of is Senator Armstrong. He's so goofy and yet so cool that although what he wants is terrible, he's a supremely enjoyable presence

I love the designs of the carns, it feels so creepy/zombie like with a hint of cultist but... Corn, its great

Thank you for you help!

I've tried to design hair for my character and i had so many design options for my character's hair but i finally got the perfect hair design!

OH GOD HE'S HOT

I think this is bullshit. In the "fixed" drawing you just drew it in a completely different artstyle that was better, it has nothing to do with tangents.

“Oh this reminds me of this! It looks like this” …muhwahahaha… Ohh, but how foolish they are, they don’t know… it’s ripping off a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CHARACTER!

this is truly the end all be all video for the "art style" topic - thank you for making this!!

Heya Brookes! I really feel the Sisyphean tasks! I’m now redoing my entire portfolio now that I’ve been practicing for a while. It’s definitely crazy hard and rewarding at the same time. ALSO I will be heading back to Lightbox and I can’t wait to meet with you again! I’ll pick up some more pins from you! I can’t wait to see your show!

I thought the baby joke was funny lol.

Using a macropad for drawing apps for me is a must. I personally use an 8bitdo controller for that

I’m trying to make a comic and I was making the two main characters and I was watching your video while making them and the color. I was watching your video. I remembered to give the characters flaws.

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Hmm, I partially agree and partially disagree. I do think that to an extent "one boulder" is a pretty good ideal. I also agree ideas are sort of but not completely overrated and execution is a lot more important. But execution is also partially dependedent on sub-ideas, and planning. How good and realistic the plan is has a huge effect on how good the outcome will be and how feasible it is to actually finish, and how likely it is to get stuck. There is a huge value in actually finishing things though. Both small easy wins and bigger things. For newer creatives I personally like the "complete a lot of small things one at a time" approach. I think creating a plan and then a strong prototype or MVP is pretty important, and that only a portion of the projects that get that far actually should be finished. To extend the metaphor, I feel like there are a few natural "shelves" in the bowl. Where you can leave a ball for awhile and which getting to that point makes it easier to judge how hard it would be to finish with that one. I actually found taking more ideas to that point tended to result in me creating more ideas and bettwe quality ideas than I did before, And gives more of a mix of scales. If I only do small projects/easy wins it can eventually get frustrating, and you can easily end up training yourself to automatically discarch bigger ideas. While taking the time to plan some ideas that are bigger, but still not huge can make it easier to find something big that is still feasible. I do agree it's not a great coping mechanism. I completely agree we will always have new ideas, Although at the same time, it doesn't necesarily mean they are good. (Although almost any idea can work with a good execution, a good execution takes a good plan or a lot of experience/luck/dedication/passion, soooo.)

literally everything in this video is so incredibly relatable and hit all the right places. esp comparing pushing too many boulders with ADHD bc man... i wish the ADHD a very go away so i can put my focus into the few things i want rather than barely in the too many things that should prolly be tackled at different times.

that last line really hit me, ive been developing an idea for a story specifically about my massive idea bank and my fear that i'll never be able to put everything i want into world. i wasnt really sure what the main theme of the story was gonna be since i didn't fully know the answers to the questions i was posing myself, but you just kinda plopped it into my lap at the end there haha. very thankful for this video

I'm currently trapped being an "Idea Guy" at this point because I honestly don't know how to move the boulders forward anymore. Not sure why I stopped or what stopped me to begin with, but I'm kinda just stuck here watching the moss grow on them. It honestly sucks...

so beautiful, Character Design Forge. Support..! have a nice day :))

Bruh I have a 50 item list of things I’ve thought of that have near zero percent chance of me picking them up. I understood the absurd already (especially with my career direction being biology) but this video really brought it to a point.

I clicked for the content and stayed for how he’s rocking the hair. 💖😂

This video is quietly amazing, and has legit aided me this morning.

3:59 hello…… is me

it's difficult when you find yourself in the dire situation of trying to earn a living, dreamed to become a game designer ever since I was 18 years old, ended up taking the 3d art route to that but the scenario of living in a 3rd world country with basically no job openings as a 3d artist, switching to freelancing doing other stuff not related to 3d art at all, leaving you too burn out to even try something on the little free time I had, then switching to remote, finally being able to land a job in an indie game studio to finally do decent 3d art, getting to confortable with it until the project ended and got out of a job again, it's been 2 years since that, freaking imposible to land a remote job now, trying to get into character art instead of just making props, not only feels like pushing a boulder but also getting squeezed on the neck

So pick on e thing and get it done?

I have been trying to figure out how to overcome this issue, the last few months, to widdle down the amount of projects I take on. I am happy to hear I am not the only one.

Reminds me of... The Hole. Worst case scenario if the boulders... all fall down back to the same hole you pushed them out. By circumstance or not, the things you managed to get off the hole... fall right back in because of some flaw. Used to have a schedule that got me to draw... and it got broken because of personal circles... AGAIN. And it's Summer. And I am juggling between... 3 different projects. One has progress, the other is on hold... and my original one is under endless revisions, and improvements... and drafts. Meanwhile, I am in Art Fight.

Great video 💖

All my fellow fanfic writters need to see this.

Perfect timing for where I’m at now, and I love the analogy.

"ideas are the easy part" man that is so untrue for me. I'd like to draw more but I just never have any ideas

This video has some rock-solid advice.

How's this for a slightly different perspective. Since I've become quite ancient, I realized that anything I do quite possibly might be the last thing I do. That realization has resulted in how I give consideration and assign importance to various projects. I mean, what project would I really want to make sure is completed before I fall off the twig?

This video made me feel seen. I've definitely been putting myself in this position a lot lately, going from working on a novel, then teaching myself comics and wanted to try and make a graphic novel while telling myself "Once I get to *this* point, I can start on the sequel to my first novel. Then once I finish the first draft of *that*, I'll pivot to-" and all of my projects make progress, but end up being half-done. I keep seeing things that I want to work on or improve on because the new ideas get me excited and the current projects take so much longer than I expected... Plus, sometimes, as you pointed out, I get scared of exposing my own weaknesses and move to another project to hide them. This definitely happened with my comic when it got to an action scene. I delayed on that for months, procrastinating with different new and shiny projects and challenges. That bit at the end about the reality of the situation hit a little hard in terms of shattering my dreamy expectations for what I'm capable of, but I think it still felt necessary and wasn't as crushing as I feared it might be to consider such a thing.

I just realized that I've been flailing about at the bottom of the basin for years, completely engrossed in deciding which boulder to move first, and coincidentally nudging one every once in a while in my fit of madness. My GOSH, me, get a GRIP.

damn this video is timely, I'm just about to restart old idea when I'm already on a project lol

Thought you were joining Artfol for a sec. Oh well I can dream. Still really good advice! I’m curious if lumiko is related to the mystery project?

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Loved that much needed dunk on AI ""art"" (algorithmically generated slop)

I need execute my ideas faster, then. Does my concepts get better as I execute them, though. The more ideas I execute, the better my next ones be?

Oh my thousands of notes and worldbuilding mixed with the file designated "CHARACTER DUMP"

GOOD VIBEO

Are you working for Pixar?

I was going to crack a joke or something but I've actually been doing a "Stop & Assess" dealie for the past few yrs. It's how I've learned to just let some ideas sit & why more of the characters I've made during my October drawing thing have ended up elsewhere. Every so often, I'll ask myself: - Can this idea live on its own (Generally the one-off image it started as)? Yes or No. - Is there enough There there to warrant putting more time into it? Yes or No. - Can this idea be better served in my comic? Yes or No. So far, I've been sidetracked less by random ideas & projects. = )

Return of the king 🎉

Nice vid

I feel called out lmao. Learning the additional skills (read: art) is so intimidating that I just havr a big pile of boulders halfway out of the bowl, but can't bring myself to get them all the way out when I could just code another proof of concept