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How To Make a vTuber Character Sheet | 銆怭interest銆慒or Art Reference Commissions - YouTube
Channel: Mari Yume
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I can't draw. Can
you help me with free solutions?
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I don't have money.
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Do I have to draw my character
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cause I have a problem
I can't draw and I don't have money.
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So what do I do? YAMETE-STOP
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You don't need to know how to draw
in order to make a character sheet.
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You just need to know the stuff
that you got taught in kindergarten,
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which are your shapes,
your colors and your numbers.
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And if you don't know how to do that,
are you even old enough
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to be watching this video? Hi Bobas,
Welcome to my channel.
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I'm Mari, And today I'm going to show you
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how to make a character sheet
for your vTuber.
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And don't stress. It's totally OK
if you don't know how to draw.
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You honestly don't need you,
because once you're done with this video,
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you'll have a filled out character sheet
that you can either make a 3-D model
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or you can hire a commissioner
to make a Live2D model.
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So what do you need in order
to have a character sheet
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if you don't need to draw?
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Well, you can make a whole description
of what your character
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looks like and their personality
traits or their lore.
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You can also use reference images
to kind of give a general idea
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or a mood of what you want
the character to look like.
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There's a lot of very creative things
that you can do that doesn't
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actually require
for you to have any drawing skills.
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So why don't I show you
how to do all of that?
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Why don't we start with finding
some reference images first? OK.
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So Pinterest is a great way to find
reference images for literally anything.
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I use Pinterest all the time to find art
references, and I use Pinterest
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when I was trying to create some reference
images for my new OC.
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All right. Now, if you've never used
Pinterest before, don't fret.
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It's totally fine.
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You just click the little sign up
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button up tab and you can fill
all your information right here.
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But if you don't really feel like,
you know, doing the email
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and the password or whatever,
you could honestly connect
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to your Facebook
or connect it through your Gmail.
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I personally like doing it through my Gmail.
It's a lot simpler.
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It's literally just a one click.
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And there you go.
You just sign in and you're all set.
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All right. Once you have
an account on Pinterest,
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you're just going to go up
to the search bar
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and you can literally type in
anything that you want a reference of.
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Now, if you've been using Pinterest
for a while, they'll start to give you
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a little ideas for you
based off of the things
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that you've been looking at and stuff
that you're interested in.
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But if you're a new account, chances
are you're going to see what's popular
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or like whatever interest
that may pertain to
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what you've been browsing on the Internet.
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That's just how cookies work. Anways,
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Just type in the search bar character
sheets and then we're going to press.
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Oh, no. Hold on. I actually liked.
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Hold on. I liked the -
the little template right there.
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And then you just kind of
see what pops up.
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You will have a lot of various images
that you can kind of scroll through
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and just take a look at and just
I don't know, see what you like.
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Let's see. I think
I kind of like this one. Let me see this.
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Yeah. So I really like this.
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Now, if I want to save this,
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look at later, I just click on the save
button and congratulations.
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You just did your first pin.
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Now, if you're someone who doesn't like
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to live their life
in a chaotic mess like me,
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then you might be interested
in clicking on the little arrow
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that's next to the save
and then creating a pin board
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to help organize your pins better.
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You could literally make one
and just label a character sheet.
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So anytime that you're looking at
specific OC references,
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you could have saved them all there
and you'll have everything so much
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more organized because you can categorize
so many pins like this.
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I have some pin boards for some art
references, body poses, emotes
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and a whole bunch more.
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OK, so hopefully you've taken the time
to look at Pinterest and you found a
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character sheet that you like.
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Now you can use it as a guide
to write down some details
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of what you want
your character to look like,
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what their personality
traits are, any cool quirks
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or lore about them, and more
so get to writing babas.
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OK, now let's take one of these templates
and start making our own vTuber
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reference sheet.
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You can either print the template
and then fill out the info
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or you can take the image
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and open it in whatever editing program
you have and type or scribble the info on.
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Or you can honestly just write down
your ideas in a notepad somewhere.
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I think describing your OC
as much as you can will be helpful,
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because if you're forgetful like me,
then you're going to struggle
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describing your vTuber to any artist
you want to commission later on.
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I'm a visual learner, so having
some kind of guide that I can reference
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to when creating someone's
Live2D or character sheet is so helpful.
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I kid you not. I have drawn
a few character references where I was
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basically given just a few images
and some word descriptions.
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And this made me struggle
so much when designing the character,
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because I had to guess
what the commissioner wanted.
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And this caused me to have to go back and
redraw a lot of things, which is honestly
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a pain, and kind of a waste of my time,
since I don't charge by the hour.
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Now, compare that to
someone who had commissioned me
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and they had a whole detailed Google
document sheet describing their vTuber.
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This made it so much easier
and faster for me to draw their vTuber.
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So instead of taking a whole month
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to draw someone's character,
it literally took me just a week.
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Your words are your powers, Bobas.
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So use them. You and your artist
will be thankful for it.
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OK, now that I have some descriptions
of my character reference
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sheet filled out,
let's go back into Pinterest
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and find some images that I can just paste
into the Google documents.
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This will give the artist or myself
a better indication
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of the aesthetic that I'm looking for
in terms of my vTuber avatar.
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Having images will give.
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A much better indication of the aesthetic
that I'm looking for, since there are so
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many images on Pinterest.
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You can literally find any style
or aesthetic that pertains to your OC.
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This is actually
what people call a mood board,
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which helps you consolidate
an idea to a particular mood or a theme.
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I want my mood or my theme for my avatar
to be sleepy and kind of cute.
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So let's find some images and motifs
that will add to my sleepy neko vTuber.
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OK, I think I have enough reference images
that I can use to paste
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into my Google document sheet.
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So why don't we go ahead and do that now?
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OK, so let's start
adding our reference images in here.
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So we're going to go
let's do the eyes first.
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Why don't we go into insert go to images
and then upload from computer?
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I've already labeled them all
to make it a lot easier for me.
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So now I have it looking just like that.
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The mouth shape, I
have an image for that, too.
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Why don't we put that in like that?
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And I wonder if it's possible.
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No, wait, maybe I want to go
back up over here.
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Sometimes this can be
a very finicky program.
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All right. I think that that works OK.
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If you make it a little bit bigger,
you probably have more room to work with.
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There we go. OK, now that works
so much better. All right.
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So the hair I want kind of like these twin
tails kind of ish? For the ears,
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I have a specific image,
but I don't want them to think that I want
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all of this. So I'm just going to go
here to crop the image
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and we're just going to crop
just for this part here.
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And that way, they'll get
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a much better understanding
of that specific star capsule.
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I think I have some
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for all the accessories here,
which would be kind of like the bandaids.
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But I'm going to crop that
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just to give a better indication of what
I'm looking for. Oh, wrong one.
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There we go. And then
I have an outfit for this.
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Might need to make that
a little bit bigger here.
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And then I also have an image for this.
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Of course, you can always add more details
and image references that you want.
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This is just a very basic guideline
that I wanted to show you,
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to give you a general idea
of what you can do.
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And now I have a good character
sheet for my vTuber.
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I hope this video is helpful
to anyone who's been struggling
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to create a character for their vTuber,
because you really don't need to
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learn how to draw.
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You could take this whole concept that
I taught you and you could hire an artist,
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or if you want, you can make your own 3-D
vTuber model for free,
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because now you have a reference
of what you want to look like.
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And I have a video on
how to do all of that
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with a bunch of free vTuber assets.
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So if you want to go check that video,
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then I will leave that link somewhere
here in the cards or in my description.
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If you liked this video, then please
give it a thumbs up and comment down below
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what your OC ideas are!
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I would love to see what your concept is.
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And, you know, I might even draw
your character based off of the things
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that you write down for the descriptions
in the comments. Or feel free
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to join our discord if you want to get
some feedback on your OC,
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Thanks so much for watching. Bye, Bobas!
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