I'm always so late to the parties, man..
lame.
I recently drew one of my concept characters off of that old concept art page I posted a few pages back, And I have to say- for a
fan character, I really actually enjoy drawing her.
Sorry I've been inactive for a bit, but I agree with what Hinote said a few pages back.
Every artist needs inspiration in something, and takes inspiration from some where. I think you need to have creativity though as well, even if you are just making a fan character- you shouldn't necessarily be drawing them with someone in mind, cause I've found on my own that if you draw with someone or something in your head, the picture may turn out resembling such character.
That sounded kind of weird so let me explain it a bit ahaha.
I think that if you're making a Sonic fan character, for example, and you have Sonic, himself, in mind while creating such character- your character is going to inevitably look similar to him.
When ever I make a character for anything be it fan characters or just OC's, I try to design it so that I can enjoy it and it will fit in with the other characters in the series, but as well so they stand out on their own and have something interesting to them that the other characters may not have.
Now, in a sense- Sonic's fanbase is run dry, in my opinion, of creative fan characters because what ever could have possibly been done is pretty much already done.
So when it comes to Sonic fan characters, I tend to tread lightly on my expectations of how amazing someones fan character should be.
Anyway, yuck, Mondays. Hope ya guys have a great week.