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Character Tips 4 - MagicCharacter Creation – Magic and Abilities
If you are creating a character for the fantasy genre, more often than not, they have some kind of magic. There are all kinds of magic, but some planning has to go into it.

How did they get it?
There are many ways your character could get their magic. It could be given to them by some higher power, it could be genetics, or they could use a magical item and have no real power of their own.

I'll start with genetics. If this is how your character got their power then somebody else in their family tree somewhere should have the same power. It wouldn't have to be in their immediate family since it

Character Tips 3 - ClothingCharacter Creation – Clothing
So, your character has a body, a life and a personality. The thing is, they're still naked! Well, this should solve their problem.

Basics
Before we decide on their clothes, we need to figure out what they actually do for a living. This is important because, apart from their personality, this will decide the type of clothing your character will wear. For example, a princess will wear a lot of fine dresses and have a lot of jewellery whereas a peasant will have patched up clothes and little to no jewellery. A business man will wear a suit to work whereas a person working on a construction site will wear jea

Character Tips 2 - PersonalityCharacter Creation – History and Personality
So, you have the body of your character, but it's only the body. It has no life or personality yet. This will hopefully help to give it one.

History
Creating a history is not often fun or easy, but what has happened in your character's past will affect their personality. Of course, like with everything else, there are traps that you can fall into. Some things are horribly overused, it's not illegal to use them, but just keep in mind that they are really common. Whatever you do, don't have an overly sad past, and I don't mean that they can't be orphans, or be abused by a parent or partner, b

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Color Schemes: Triadicby ~ArcherSemine

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Felt like doing some more tutorials. This time I'm covering color schemes. I categorized this as misc. because it's not restrictive to digital vs. traditional medium, or to any particular program. Anyone can use this information.

Color Scheme: Basics [link]
Color Scheme: Warm and Cool [link]
Color Scheme: Analogous [link]
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Color Scheme: Split-Complemetary [link]
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~SageMint Jan 6, 2013 Student General Artist

Very helpful! Thank for making these. For whatever reason I forgot some of the lessons I had in color theory the previous semester lol. These tutorials supplement just nicely.

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That's very helpful. Thanks.

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