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Color your character

Color your character

From the course: Learning Character Development and Design

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Color your character

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- Once you've established the backstory and the framework of the character through drawing, it's important to understand the role that color plays. Choosing a palette that expresses your character's personality can be a critical element to the exploration of your character development. As humans, we associate certain colors with emotion and expression. Color becomes an icon or symbolic idea when applied to a character, and can help the story that you're trying to tell. But only if you know what the message your palette sends to a viewer. When I created the color choices for the characters that I invented in The Dragons on Dazzled Island, I had to think about how they would contrast the background. Be different in color from the existing My Little Pony characters, as well as how they would look when they were all together in a scene. The biggest issue here was contrast. I wanted the characters to be different from one another, and to be easily identifiable, but also pop against the…

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