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