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Pentecost comes with a new tip on making comics - Today’s topic is characterdesign.

If not working in a team and on a graphic novel with many pages, let me postulate your characterdesign is finished if you feel comfortable with the character. >

You may say that this is more an opinion than the result of a sophisticated characterdesign process. But when working on a volume with hundreds of pages, you draw that character so many, many times. This is only possible with a character that you really feel comfortable with >

and with which you want to wander through that story.

Of course there are occasions where you will have to adjust your design to clients wishes much more. But if it’s an original story you come up with and that will bind your creativity for a long time, characters will become >

‚friends‘. You’ll have to keep up interest in them in every single one of maybe thousands of panels. So I’d like to give the advice to design them in a way that assures you to manage that.

After all, it’s more fun to spend a lot of lifetime with more likeable friends, no ?

EDIT: It might sound confusing (in the beginning of this thread) what kind of project I really mean. So, please let me clarify that I mean a single-authored, longterm graphic novel project.