Create Your Own Anime Character

Why we do things, especially those, certain things that give pleasure to us. There are certain things that helps us enlarge our personality. Getting involved in an art and practicing it to your heart's contents is satisfying, and is a way of self expression. It also helps us to gain respect, approval and appreciation from the ones we care about. Creating your own anime character is one such activity that is bound to help you in receiving all these things. Sometimes, an individual is not certain how the activity that he is doing will be received by the others. The time and the efforts expended, in this imagination stirring adventure will be well received and appreciated.

Drawing Your Own Anime Character

Anime is a Japanese short form of the word animation. Some of these Japanese characters have become so famous that everyone is trying to come up with their own. If you are reading this statement, then most probably you want to do the same thing.

Mental Picture
It is very easy to, first, create it in your mind. As some of the creative individuals say, mentally picturing something they want to express helps them to execute as they want. To create your anime character, you will have to consider a lot many things.

• Genre: It helps to kindle the imagination, if you already know which genre your anime character belongs to. Action, adventure, drama, relationship, horror, science fiction are few of the genre you can explore and use. Choose wisely, as your decision is going to affect how your character looks, behave, and what kind of skill it has. To create your own character that belongs to the Sci-Fi, you will have to think in Sci-Fi way, or the character won't be accepted that widely. If you find it difficult to decide on the genre of your character, then viewing some animated movies, especially, those which are regarded as best anime movies of all time may trigger your imagination.
• History of Character: Every living individual, animal and animation character has history to color its character. This is a major hurdle you will have to overcome. It will also help in coming with details that will go a long way in emphasizing the character of your creation. If your character was involved in a fight or a battle, then putting a mark or wound on his face can give it a different look. Decide, is your anime character ugly, vicious, a cold blooded murderer, a saint, a greedy or a jolly character?
• Target Audience: If you are creating your anime character for children attending preschool, then Kodomo is an anime character that you should concentrate on. Coming up with your version of famous characters such as Shojo for young girls, and Shonen for young boys can help in appreciating your work. In case of young females, you may try your hand at an anime character that goes by the name Josei. On the other hand, you may like to follow one of the top10 anime characters.

Drawing an Anime Character
After arming yourself with as much information as you can about your brainchild, it is time to think about how you can bring it in the lime-light. If you are an expert at drawing, then you better skip this information because you won't be needing any cartoon drawing tips. However, executing an anime character on paper is not at all easy, for a person who is not skilled in the art of drawing. If you're such an handicapped individual, then, maybe trying to create with the help of a computer, can be an apt option for you. Whatever the end product is, you can display it to the largest audience you can ever dream of attracting. There are so many websites that provide 3-D animation software to help artists draw anime characters. In addition, these websites also help you in displaying your creation on the internet, which enables you to attract viewers and their comments from all over the world. Pay careful attention to the color schemes you are going to color your anime character. Many of these character are painted using bright and contrasting colors.

What to do with the anime characters that you have created? Use the suggestions provided here and if it attracts favorable comments, then you may like to get a large-scale printout to hang it in your house.