tried doing a quick getting down on paper of character designs for the main characters of the vn I'm working on
green is the protagonist, he's mostly based on moto hagio characters in his general design
red is the third love interest, his design I'm sort of basing on the seemingly lead vampire from the lost boys which is a movie from the 80s, as well as just generally sexy gruff guy vibes. maybe a bit of viewlard from five star stories
gold is the second route love interest, his design I'm mostly referencing Blondie from ai no kusabi and russ Lundberg from brainpowerd. still not set on having a bandana or not
blue is the first love interest route and based on fei from xenogears and maybe a bit of dr ballanche from fss
grey is the last love interest and based a bit on guile from street fighter but with sideburns and older.
again these were just quick getting the ideas out so I could see them
still need to practice a lot to get better at drawing and refining the characters and their wardrobes, but I feel good that there's at least a general direction for them now and I can get a better feel for them
would making reference sheets for each character help do you friends think?
faces are hard but I don't want to arbitrarily keep pushing off working on characters until I feel good enough bc I know I'll never feel good enough and at least this way I can make progress and learn
has anyone else gone from nodraw to visual novel stuff? is it as intimidating as it seems? I think it's been fun so far and I'm enjoying just going at my own pace, but I'm worried it'll get painful at some point and I won't be able to persevere