It can be simple or detailed, like Konata from lucky star, she's super iconic and has such an amazing design, even if it's really simple, I think bungou stray dogs do this really well too, I can see Dazai drawings without saying he's Dazai and say "OMG DAZAI"

Or we can talk about superman, spiderman or batman, their designs are really amazing, bc they're recognizable!!! You can see their designs in every picture and say "this is superman" or "this is batman"

Okay, idk how tf I get 200 forking likes BUT THANK U SM 😭😭😭

I didn't expect this to have more than 20 likes and now have 500+ how I did this? I don't know, maybe it was the Yuume-moment/j BUT THANKS FOR AGREEING WITH THIS!!!

@Yuumelish Simple designs are the best ones of course It's mostly gacha fans who spread the idea that 10 kg of accessories on a character looks good

@kromarrus I think detailed and simple designs are great, it's just the personality of the character, if the character is more extravagant or he wants to get attention he would put a lot of details in his clothes!!!

@Yuumelish Freaking exactly! I've always went with that mentality when designing my own OCs.

@CrazyJGraphics YESYESYES!!! DOING RECOGNIZABLE CHARACTERS IS THE KEY!!

@Yuumelish True

@Sshirokuro YEP!!!

@Yuumelish If your oc design dosent put you a risk of developing carpal tunnel then uts too simple 😜

@JadexFang BQHSHAHS THAT'S TRUE BUDDY!!

@Yuumelish I agree. I remember I saw a video on this. It said that the best designs are those that you can remember without looking at a reference over and over again. You can say Mickey Mouse or Mario are good examples. Also Goku

@Knuckles_Art TRUE!!!! If your character is recognizable, then you did a really good job!!!

@Yuumelish Complicated designs are very comic unfriendly. A lot of manga protagonists have simple, yet iconic designs, naming just a few: Luffy, Ichigo, Denji, Naruto. All depends on the function and purpose.

@rrustellar YES. That's totally true!!! And you named some good examples!!

@Yuumelish In fact, sometimes (most of the time) a simple design is better designed that a convoluted design

@silvspell AND that's true!!! Because they're more easy to remember!!!

@Yuumelish I intentionally made both my design and my mascot simple complexity. What I mean is I made both designs very simple in reality and due to how I did so make em look more complex than they actually are. 😁 Both were also designed intentionally to be artist friendly/easy to draw🥰

@Rejomei1 AND THAT'S GREAT!!! As I said, you can do detailed or simple designs, the important thing is just make them recognizable!!!