Hasi

Mm, delicious! That's exciting news! : - )

Out of a bit of curiosity, what inspired you to... Work in the game development industry (for creatives, visuals, writers, programmers, etc.) and/or What inspired you to want to create a game? What inspires you to continue?

That's an interesting exercise. Although the same head shapes kind of takes on the same issue in the end with drawing characters with similarities. I get that that's not exactly the intention, though (it's one with details, not face shapes), but still. And yes, you are right! The similarity "syndrome" issue runs all the way down the body with all sorts of artists. I love drawing females with that all too well known body type. But it's awful, I often catch myself just randomly drawing characters to fit that. I think I need more life figure drawing practice, aha. Especially with facial details and now that you point it out- body types.

A while back (some months ago) I was drawing several character concepts for a comic book. One comment I received was that all of my characters, although each unique, carried the same or similar facial details. My first reaction was "what, no they don't.." but then I looked some more and I realized they actually did. This was a western-anime-mixed style. I noticed the eyes were quite similar, the nose almost always that same perfectly shaped button nose and the women would have big pouty lips. This surprised me, because I've studied art for quite a lot during my youth and would always make it a point to study unique characteristics of the face. I had taken quite the break from art the last few years (not stopped, but less) and coming back it was almost habitual that I turned to such features. Then. I started seeing it. I really can't stop it seeing it, I don't see how I couldn't. I would look at artwork from other artists and I'd see the same exact thing. Same faces. Same body types (you know the ones - both female and males...). Same noses. Same mouths. Just different eye colours and hair.. everywhere! Beautiful gorgeous art, but the unfortunate similarities can be ruining. I see this especially with anime artists. Do you see it as well? Have you ever noticed that your art was starting to carry similar features like this? What did/do you do about it?