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[bagenew]

Nice Capcom studies! Have you tried designing your own character after say 5-10 copies?

No,I haven't.
A good question but I don't really have a clear answer.

the plan I made for drawing part is pretty rough: 
capcom study 20 pages ,
portrait study(on different type:cartoon/realistic/korean style,etc) 50 ,
free study 50 ,

I've already did 75 capcom characters,after counting the characters on the rest 12 pages,see there're 148 left to go.
But I did this part mainly for love,since I'm a fighting game player.Not mainly for a design skill sharpening purpose.
It still helps,but not that much.
If I want to design some characters of my own,I think maybe doing more observation sketch on real obj. may help more than just copying others'.

for the portrait part,it may have more meaning for my design skill tree building,I set up the practice because I don't know which kind of character design I want to start first.
I think the main difference of character design between cartoon and realistic or the korean game style,is on the face.So I choose to do a lot of these to find out what kind of style I would love to start first.

Anyway,148 is a pretty long way to go.I think I could mix different kinds of drawing practice together to see which may help more to build my real skill.I will take a serious think over this thing.
And thanks for the suggestion.