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Icon Mini-tutorial

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Someone once asked how I make these little guys, and for the most part, I make every one from scratch and do not copy/paste parts of them. This keeps them from getting stale and forces me to re-make every part based ont he character and not generic bodytypes.

It takes longer, but I feel they look beter as they all have different sized features and parts depending on the character.

Here was a step by step I did of Beast Wars SCISSORBOY.

1-8. I always start with the head and the eyes. The eyes are kinda like the thing that ties them all together. Panel 8, I have to flip the eyeballs so they are not symetrical.

9-13. Next is legs. Outline, fill, detail. I do the legs second as it allows me to make the legs as long as I need and I can always sneak pixels out of the torso

14-16. Torso. Fill between head and legs!

17-22. Then the arms. I always like to keep the arms from touching the hips and make them as long or as bulky as they need to be. This one actually has extra bits and such that are pretty unique to this icon.

23-25. Fiddily bitz. Some have wings, some have weapons, capes... WHATEVER. This is where they get added.

So you can see the process I go through to make these guys :)
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donut07's avatar
wow, that is my fav transformer, he's an earwig right? i still got the toy from when i was a kid.