i need some help!!

[Hellblaze123]

I have been having a serious case of artists block.

I am making a comic, and i need a a female character that follows the main character around for some reason.

The main character is a male, age unknown, for now, arch angel.
He is very dark and mysterious with some sick abilities.

The female is supposed to be a young, around 19-20 year old. Kind of shy, but likes the main character.

But i am very bad at female character design, i just cant make them look the way i want them to.

So if anyone can throw some ideas that i can use as a spring bored, or some sketches that could help, it would be VERY appreciated, and you will be missioned in the credits.

Thanks in advance,
Hellblaze123

[Seedling]

You should get yourself into a figure drawing class.

[Hellblaze123]

its not that, i just cant seem to think of any ideas, im all out right now.

[Rabid]

Can you relate the character to someone you know? Base your design off them. As far as sketches, sry dude but you make your own unless you post in employment section....

[kev ferrara]

According to many screenwriting teachers action is character. So if you figure out how she will act in your story... what role she will play... you will know more about her character.

And once you know her character, draw here costume to reflect her character.

Costume is a metaphor for character.

She can be steam punk or cyber punk or a hippie chick or one of those Pre-Raphaelite gals or a corporate girl or a school marm or a goth chick or a wallflower or a sporty spice or a sultry cat girl or kewpie doll or tall and gangly or lithe and sleek or an Amazon or an earth mother or an angelic blonde or a raven haired witchy type or a girl next door a beach ball carry bimbo or...


a cyber marm, a corporate cat girl or a witchy wallflower or a kewpie amazon or... etc. etc. etc..

kev

[Grief]

You should get yourself into a figure drawing class.

i agree. naked titties weave their own story as you stare at them.


erm...

i know this isnt a writing workshop forum or anything (and my ability to string words together at times makes it seem as though i've never used the english language) but get out a blank piece of paper. okay, now get something to write with. ink preferably so you can't erase 'bad' ideas

make a list of character traits that you want to pertain to the female character mentally and emotionally (clingy, dependant, shy, awkward socially, swift to arrive at solutions). just a free-write of aspects used to pertain to descriptive words about what type of person she is.

now that you have the idea of how the character behaves it can begin to shape how their actions reflects in their outer appearance.

now do a similar list for physical traits only (tall, wide hips, small shoulders, short-cropped hair, lean ankles, piercings, tattoos, how the hair is worn, style of clothes, way she would move and walk, etc.)

what types of colors would she wear, does she dye her hair? does she eat fast-food? does she have a frilly-girly bedroom, or is she a tom-boy?

don't worry about the lists making sense, let them roam off topic.
emample:
"wears thick buckled shoes, used to be somewhat 'goth' in highschool, dropped out due to sheer boredom, didnt have many friends, two of her close friends killed themselves two years prior, has had suicidal thoughts herself, enjoys cherry icees, doesnt like boys with curly hair, reads kafka and chaser, has foriegn black&white movie collection, blah blah"

establish the character before you go out and draw anything. i find it better to design a character with an idea in my mind, rather than the opposite of drawing a character then giving the backstory based on what i drew.

also read the manga "The Demon Ororon", from the vague outline you gave, it's damn near identical to what you described, (only swap 'archangel' for ' king of hell')

[edit] i just read kev's reply, same thing as i was getting at, 'action dictates their character'.

[Hellblaze123]

Thank you all for the help, i think i have an idea now for what i am going to do.