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RPGrealm5

I was just wondering this: is it harder to make a male NPC or a female NPC? To me it is harder to make a Female because you have to focus making them look like woman, and not deformed guys.

This includes battle pictures and walkabout graphics.
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Setu_Firestorm · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2003 10:51 pm Post subject:

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(((If you craft your graphics together just right, you can make character sprites that could be any gender and just alternate with palettes.)))

Mmmmmmm.......Kraft.
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JSH357 · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 1705

What about genderless?

Monsters are a lot harder for me to draw than humans. (Not that I'm a great artist.) The main reason is that so much more detail usually goes into drawing beasts, whereas humans tend to be pretty generic.

If I HAVE to pick a gender, I'd say females, because I'm not good at proportioning things well. (aka:Boobs!)

Me · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2003 10:55 pm Post subject:

Why am I the only person who's voted so far?
I find it harder to draw female characters, the reason being I am a guy.
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Iblis · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2003 10:57 pm Post subject:

I'd say men are harder. Since generally they have shorter hair you have less to work with, espescially with the tiny walkabouts, and it can be more difficult if you want their hair to be unique (unless you go with crazy spikes). With women it's easy to give them distinct hair, cause you generally have much more of it. Of course you could easily have a short haired woman and a long haired man, but since there are few other visual ques to work with (breasts are hard to make in such small pics, unless they're grotesquely large) they would probably get that character's gender mixed up until they read otherwise in the dialogue.
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RPGrealm5 · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2003 11:02 pm Post subject:

I've had a bad experience making woman in my games. One of them turned out like that fat pig lady from Earthbound for SNES.

I tend to give my male NPCs longer hair, or bushy hair. For some reason in my newer games it has worked out better that way, otherwise they look bald. Besides, most RPGs give their heros lot's of hair. Well japanese ones anyways, and that must include all of the commercial RPGs these days.
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Setu_Firestorm · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2003 11:11 pm Post subject:

Aside from my little spiel about universally gendered characters, I find it harder when drawing actual pictures to draw females. They have a completely different-modeled body from us guys. I could just be saying that because I've had a lot more practice and experience with male characters.
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Blazes Battles Inc. · **I'm a chimp, not a** Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Posts: 505

Females are harder. Like everyone else already said, it's due to proportioning.
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Komera · Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 711

For me, muscular men and fat people of either gender are harder for me to draw. I have no problem with people of either gender who are skinny, lithle, lean, or otherwise just plain built like Bruce Lee (i.e. someone who looks small and shrimpy until they FLEX, and anyone who knows even the smallest bit about Bruce Lee knows that he intentionally looked small). I suppose this stems from my preference of smaller characters. This is why the characters in my game do not carry around 75 pounds of extra muscle.
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RPGrealm5 · Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2003 4:07 am Post subject:

Is this topic dead already? Come on! Get back in the ring.
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Uncommon · Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2003 2:25 am Post subject:

In OHR, definitely women. On paper, I'm fine with both, but the sprite editor in OHR is much different from paper.

Sew · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 3:27 am Post subject:

I never found it to be that much harder at all really.

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RPGrealm5 · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 5:41 pm Post subject:

JSH357 made a nice point about monsters being harder than humans in some cases, but still monsters are easier for me than female characters.
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SunsOfFlame · Joined: 28 Apr 2003 Posts: 139

Whats harder for me?

in sprites: Female
on paper: Male

Females are harder to draw with less space, but i agree about males hair being a lot harder to do.
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ChocoSOLDIER · Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2003 7:04 pm Post subject:

I think I read somewhere that (on paper), women seem better at drawing the male figure, while males tend to be better at the female figure.

Anyhow, in OHR, it's hard for me to draw women (See Nikki from Midnight Rescue. Perfect example of the "Proportion" thing).