-ing hippocampus and tupperware as examples. so, for hippocampus. when i finished his design, i had answered the questions above, and they all were positive (optimist, kind, alive, happy) aside from being poor cause he got no hOUse. because of this, i decided to go along with brighter colors to fit his bright personality. for tupperware, i got mainly negative answers (pessimist, poor, sad) other than alive and kind. i gave her a more monotone color scheme to fit this, but to add a bit of spice to it i added the bright yellow and blue. when making monotone-like color schemes, you mainly always want to add a brighter color to make it pop. not too much, though, and this doesn't exactly work the other way around most of the time. if you need help with color palettes, i recommend looking up "color palettes". if you're looking for a specific color, just search up, for example, "red color palettes" step 4: markings markings are important to make a character unique. it's what gives more personality to

them, and makes them more recognizable. try going with a certain theme; stripes, swirls, dots, blotches, etc. this one's a bit hard to explain for me, so sorry if this doesn't make sense. you can obviously skip this step if you have an oc something like a human where it doesn't have markings. step 5: finishing touches review over your design and see if you find anything that doesn't look right. try to avoid/ fix the following: a color being used too little; if you're going to use a color, try to use it at least 3 times. overly complicated markings; you don't have to avoid this, but if you're going to be animating this character, i suggest you choose some simpler markings. too many accessories; self explanitory i hope this guide helped you in some way!