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Main Entry:
hu·man·ize
Pronunciation:
\ˈhyü-mə-ˌnīz, ˈyü-\
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): hu·man·ized; hu·man·iz·ing
Date: 1603
1 a: to represent as human : attribute human qualities to b: to adapt to human nature or use
2: to make humane
— hu·man·i·za·tion \ˌhyü-mə-nə-ˈzā-shən, ˌyü-\ noun
— hu·man·iz·er noun
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I dunno, this random thought came across my mind today about doing a tutorial on how to humanize things, if, y'know, you don't think you know how for sureeeeeee.
...OKAY SO HERE GOES.
HUMANIZATIONS TUTORIAL
To humanize things, there are generally lots of questions you want to ask yourself. But specifically, you have to ask yourself the main question:
How are you going to make it look human without losing the core components?This is the basic and foremost question when it comes to humanizing. I mean, without this, it just looks like a regular human, y'know? Not a humanization. Humanizations have something about them that make the viewer say, "Oh! So that humanization is a humanization of a ___!" and not just some other person.
1.) What are you humanizing?
As the club's catchphrase goes, "EVERYTHING'S A HUMAN!" This is true, because with the right amount of imagination, you can definitely reformat anything into a human. A dog? Yeah. sure. Gameboy? Of course. Cell phone? Heck yeah. You just gotta think about it for a second. Let's say we're humanizing an Absol, a pokemon seen in Generation III of the series for the sake of this tutorial. We'll use mine as a reference:
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2.) How does it look like? Accessories.
The appearance of the Absol can give many ideas to the viewer for humanization. From the entry from bulbapedia, one can see the sickle-shaped growth on its head, the red eyes, the stone crested on its head, the fluffy stuff around its neck, and its tail. Of course, also keep the base colors of white, black and red in mind for later. Now, what can these observations lead to?:
From watching the pokemon anime, I've seen the sickle/scythe on its head used as a weapon. Obviously, as a human, seeing such a growth would be just too plain weird. Let's make the scythe into a separate entity, and make the Absol humanization hold it as a weapon. Again, seeing such a huge jewel on a human's forehead is also out of place, so we'll make it into something else. What does it remind you of? Maybe you can make the humanization wearing a hood adorned with that jewel? Or make the humanization have it as a headdress? You can also have it as a black streak in the hair. For the sake of mine, I made it into a necklace. Now, I've seen some humanizations, such as Pikachu humanizations, that still have their trademark ears and tail. This, in its modern usage, it refers to pieces which have no clear purpose in one mode but are there only because they are part of another mode; the creator of humanizations of pikachu still with their ears didn't know what to do with it, so they still are there in their human form. Now, I tried to not do this with my humanization of the Absol with its tail. Now, since the tail is located near its behind, why not have it in the same location? But what thing can do something like that? A tailcoat, or at least, the tail of a tailcoat. That is why in my humanization, the tailcoat tails look like the Absol tails. Rest assured, Absols do not have two tails, but hey, it is something that is recognizable in the human form in tandem with the original form. As for the fuzzy fluffy thing around its neck...well, I thought that Absol was more over male than female. And fluffy+male=no. So I made it into a scarf, still wrapping around the neck just like the fluffy thing would.So now we have the accessories down. Onto the actual clothing.
3.) How does it look like? Clothing+Hair+Emotion.
Take a look again at the Absol pokemon, as well as keeping the colors in mind. Read the entry a bit too!
What does it remind you of as a whole? Does it remind you of someone who is lazy? Someone who is normal? Perhaps someone who is proper? For me, I saw Absol as someone who was a proper person, wearing uniform clothing of black and white. Someone who is strict, who will protect people, serious. So I drew it with a uniform sense of style: a white buttoned shirt, a black vest with the tailcoats mentioned earlier, sleek pants with creases. Now, since this based on a pokemon, they would be running around. So it doesn't have proper shoes, rather, shoes for adventure. It is steel-tipped because again, keeping the personality in mind, Absol would need something that could withstand disasters, since it seems to make people aware of them (as stated from the entry).Again with the whole adventure thing, I wouldn't think that Absol would have long hair. Or short hair. Since he's always going off telling off people about disasters, he doesn't have enough time to care about his hair. That's why he has a ponytail, a short one at that - it kind of goes again to give a reference to the tail. The gloves too go into the fact that he's always running, so his palms would be sweaty, and we can't have his scythe slip out of his hand now, can we?Now, we have the ideas down for appearance. Of course, you can always alter certain things so they look more detailed and whatnot. Onto coloring!
4.) Coloring it down.
Now, colors aren't very difficult to put onto your humanization. You just have to know where to put them. Even though Absol has two basic colors, you can also place colors that are close together: gray is close to black, so I used black at some parts. Absol's basic colors are black and white. One color is a given, and that's red, for the eyes.
Since white takes up the majority of the original form, I made the sleeves of the shirt and his pants white, leaving the vest to be black. I also added black to his shoes, as well as gray, since I didn't want the shoes to be all black.
If you don't know where the colors or what colors to use, use colors that are near the base colors, and play around where the colors should go.
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I guess that's all I have for a tutorial. I dunno if this will help people or not, but uh...yeah, I hope it does. I spent a good 45 minutes typing this @____@ I feel SUPER TIRED NOW THANKS GUYS D:<
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