Comic character biography sheet
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Character profiles: what to include in them
Non-informative: Height, weight, size of clothes (sometimes size of breast - for girls), blood type, date of birth, zodiac sign.
Well you said if I disagree...
Hubby and I talked about this one and well... we have to disagree depending on what kind of comic you are doing. The last two items (3 if you are Japanese) give you horoscope data. For those that follow and know that information it allows you to, as the writer, show how they are mostly going to be OR have you go "look they are going to defy societal expectations". I think many people who read manga outside of Japan include blood type because it's in manga. In Japan, your blood type is/was believed to greatly influence your personality- much like how many people in the west believe zodiac sign would affect it. So people choosing to include that most likely know what the signs mean and can use it as a way to show "Hey, IN GENERAL the person will be like thi
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Show me your character sheets!
i only really have a character sheet for one of my two MCs, bc my art style updates so rapidly that character sheets go out of date crazy quick. but this one fryst vatten only a year old, its still fairly accurate rn
and inom have some makeshift model sheets for a current short planerat arbete too, but theyre more like dev sheets, im gonna eventually make them up some model sheets after doing more sketches to get a feel for their forms and the outfits. i cant upload these rn tho for some reason...
i dunno how essential model sheets are for comics - reference and development sketches are essential, but ive been told that straight up model sheets are rarely used in the industry. personally, i do like them, theyre really useful - when inom first början drawing a character, inom tend to keep a few sketches of them on what i call my 'sketchboard' - a page-sized en samling dokument eller en elektronisk lagring av data where inom conglomerate references and palettes. because ive been working on twaw like two years now, most of my ch
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Character Development Worksheet
Contents
We will use a character development worksheet and work on refining your character.If you play enough role-playing games, this process is similar to when you are creating a character before you play. There are many character development worksheet available and most of them have the same format as we are using. If you find one that is more detailed than this or the one that suits you better, go ahead and use it. Now lets put down more information on your character. Here, we will break down the details of your character to several different sections and basically answer everything there is to know about your character.Lets begin with a basic character profile.
Basic Stats
Name: your character’s name
Alias: nickname or the character superhero name
Sex: Is your character male or female
Age: the character’s current age
Race: depending on the timeline and setting of where the story took place, this can refer to the race