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Title: More Character Confliction
Post by: MarkRyanDesigns on August 21, 2012, 10:12

question today: when creating a series of related illustrations is it better to do 1 character in differ roles or a variety of characters?

http://markryandesigns.wordpress.com/2012/08/21/3-of-10-new-bidness-illustrations-3/ (http://markryandesigns.wordpress.com/2012/08/21/3-of-10-new-bidness-illustrations-3/)

Title: Re: More Character Confliction
Post by: michaeldb on August 21, 2012, 14:25

Personally, I would try one character illustrating different concepts in many images. Then for the images which sell well, you can later use the same scenes/props and keywords for new images with a new character, if you want to.

And buyers who use your character to illustrate a business concept (e.g. saving money, worrying about high interest rates, hiring a new employee...) on a website will look at your portfolio and use the same character to illustrate other concepts also.

This is the way Scott Maxwell made a lot of money with his 'gold guy' character.