>>7364929
I think the character silhouette thing is the art equivalent of sticking a carrot in front of a horse in that the point isn't to feed the animal but rather to make it travel.
Likewise, when told to "make characters have a unique silhouette", it forces the artist to make a design that is distinct enough to stand out from the others and also to make it have a certain design coherence. With "design coherence" I mean stuff like, say you have a character that is all curves, if you all of a sudden stuck blocky shapes to the point your character becomes neither round nor blocky but an indecisive amalgam between different design philosophies then it doesn't make for a very appealing character design, it becomes cacophonic

>tl;dr
The character silhouette concept is one that forces an artist adopting it to make a character that is distinct enough to stand out on its own.

While it's something that may work for some people it's not useful to everyone, personally it's not a concept I follow when making characters, like when I'm designing something I'm not asking myself "does it have a unique silhouette" but rather:
- Does this character's appearance reflect their personality and/or role, occupation?
- Am I putting too much shit into this design? I see some character designs which can use a little less detail, like they put so many minutiae that it confuses the viewer. Less is more, overdetail your design and it will probably only create noise, confusion, lack of focus;
- Does he/she look cool or cute or sexy or scary? If it doesn't evoke any particular impression it's back to the drawing board, unless the design is for some generic nobody NPC, then it's whatever

>>7364937
Also this: designs which would otherwise be non-exceptional are remembered as "good" often because they're attached to a greater character or story, rarely are designs great on their own

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