How to Avoid Creating a Mary Sue Tutorial by NuttyNuti, literature
Literature
How to Avoid Creating a Mary Sue Tutorial
Hiya!
While reading manymanymany fan fictions and original stories with varying levels, it popped into my mind a few tricks to decrease the Mary Sue aspects from characters. I've sorted the tricks to different categories, hope they are useful! The categories are,
- What is a Mary Sue anyway? And why people create them?
- Before creating him/her, aka General attitude
- When creating him/her
- When writing about him/her
- Notes about fan characters
- Notes about original characters
- Links to other Anti Mary Sue tutorials
Most the tricks I've mentioned in this guide are good to remember all the time. However, the tricks I've marked with a st
Character Design Tutorial by NuttyNuti, literature
Literature
Character Design Tutorial
GENERAL ISSUES ABOUT CHARACTER DESIGN
[New section!] Over-mirroring aka sticking too much in patterns of the original series!
INTRODUCTION: DESIGN OF CHARACTER'S LOOKS: WHAT IS ITS ROLE IN THE WHOLE CHARACTER DESIGN?
At first: No costume can save a badly made character. Your Average Joe/Jane character won't become any more interesting even if you make him/her to wear turquoise hair and odd-colored neon-color eyes. What makes character interesting is his/her INNER SIDE: his/her personality, history, skills, behavior pattern, odd traits, running gags, simply WHAT (S)HE IS. A rye bread doesn't become into a cream cake even if you put on it wh
Valentine's Day Art Exchange 2015 by ikazon, journal
Valentine's Day Art Exchange 2015
The Valentine's Day Art Exchange is back! Break out the virtual glitter and cyber candy hearts, and create valentines for your fellow deviants to send to their special someones!
DIGITAL LOVE IS IN THE AIR
Break out the candy hearts and crafting paper, because the Valentine's Day Art Exchange is back! With Valentine's Day just around the corner, now's the time to create valentines for your fellow deviants to share with their special someones.
Take part and help spread the love!
Start now by creating a digital valentine to be submitted to the Valentine Exchange category. Then, from February 11th to 16th, deviations in the Valentine Exchange ca
Tutorial and References Journal! by S-W-C-Con, journal
Tutorial and References Journal!
edit: oh my god i cant believe how many views this has. thank you!!! - ash
due to illness and the incredibly short time span we were given, i was unable to conjure an anatomy tutorial of my own for our last day
to make up for this, i have created a large list of tutorials and references for you to use!!
i tried my best to credit all of the creators, but some were just impossible to find, so i apologize! unu
if you'd like i could also add in some pixel art and animation tutorials (since i know they were requested before)!
Anatomy
General
Male Anatomy (author unknown) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Women's Body Shape by NinaSquirrelly @ deviantart
by H
150 POINTS + ART GIVEAWAY - DECEMBER - CLOSED by FrXstBite, journal
150 POINTS + ART GIVEAWAY - DECEMBER - CLOSED
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