Task - Reviewing characters

Shape Language - Everything about the character en composed.

Silhouette - Two dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout uniformly filled in with black,especially a black paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a famous person's face.

Asymmetry - Not identical on both sides of a central line; unsymmetrical.

Below are examples of what i think good character design looks like. I could come with many more, but these ones came to mind first.

There are just a 'few' examples of good character designs, in my opinion. Everyone wont agree with me. All of these are very 'fantasy'based characters, which means when they were being designed the designer had more creativity. 

Kirby - She's incredibly simple as a design, her main and seems to be only shape is circles. Circular shapes in nature have a tendency of being soft and harmless and evoke likeable characters. Her colour helps to her be harmless, with the warm pink colour. Her silhouette would be pretty easy to know it was her, she's a famous character. 

Cloud - I chose to compare cloud and Kirby due to how different they are, Cloud is incredibly stylised along with his giant sword which is incredibly recognisable. Much like the entire final fantasy franchise, because of this hair he isn't asymmetrical. However the majority of him is, which is pleasing to the eyes.   

Amazing PDF on character Design : http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:637902/FULLTEXT01.pdf

It's different talking about realistic character designs, proportions can be altered in infinite ways and they are especially useful to create many various human-based characters: A character with a small head and a large body will communicate in an entirely different way compared to a character with a small body and a large head.