How to make your character designs more interesting

I regularly do viewer critiques on my stream at https://twitch.tv/pikat, so let’s see if they can become helpful videos too! I try to improve this character design by adjust the overall drawing, as well as being more thoughtful in some of the design decisions.

I’ve now added details to recreate my pencil for free at https://pikatartist.gumroad.com/.
But you can also buy it if you want to support my channel!

Featured artist: https://twitter.com/yodogama
Edited by @SkysagiOP

00:00 – Intro
00:29 – Perspective fix
02:50 – Design details
05:57 – Make your designs functional

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