Board Thread:Tutorial/@comment-31377726-20170211045550

Hey you, do you want to make a fanon character? If so, then read this thread or your character will fail miserably in the HTF Fanon world. Fanon characters is part of what keeps the HTF fanbase alive, because they always bring a new personality to the world of HTF, or at least in their own world.

Today, I'm teaching you how to make a HTF Fanon character. Despite me not actually making a HTF Fanon character, I sure know a lot of how it's supposed to be. First of all, for starters, you might want a base. We have lots of these, go to our Bases page. Recommended you do something actually in the style of HTF since that will attract more people instead of strage anime styles and such.

Also, these bases aren't you just simply copying the image and pasting it in your paint program to sloppily fill in the colors and draw "details." What's recommended is you actually trace your base. Select a color for your characters outline(s) and start drawing over it on a new layer if your paint program supports layers.

Then, you can start adding details with that color or something different. You can draw whatever you want as long as you know users won't consider it too "weird" or "dumb."

If you're happy with your result, go ahead and color it in. However, if you're using a cheap/free paint program, the fill bucket tool is probably cheap as well and will actually not work how you want it to work. As an recommended alternative, use your brush tool and color it in with it instead.

Once you're done coloring the body, head, and limbs, start drawing the face, which should be pretty simple. If you want, take a base that includes a facial expression you want and trace over that. When you're done with your fanon character, go ahead and delete the layers you were tracing and save it. Make sure there are no mistakes, and if there aren't, you're ready to post it to the wiki.

The wiki page for your character is another thing, and possibly harder. Your wiki page for your character must have nice and fluent English along with good grammar and at least barely any spelling errors. The slighest mistakes can give you a bit of a bad reputation, and people could possibly start treating you like a child, unless you are already one. You don't want that now, do you? If not, then make sure to always check your page.

You must also protect your pages and be aware of people who try to edit it. If people make false claims of your character on its page, you can always undo it. If they erase your page entirely and add just one single word, undo it. Simple as that, but be sure to never go too far, or else you could lose your progress on the page.

Once you've added everything your characters wiki page needs, like explaining what their personality is or their traits, they're ready to be shown to the fanbase. They're ready to star in an episode and become famous among the fanbase. If people like your character and they get attention, you will be a success and you will be known for creating a great character.

If you have any questions related to creating a character, please ask below. Thank you! 