#Aesthetic mood board how to#

You can search any number of terms related to your character: “blonde girl,” “soccer,” “cooking,” and look through the recent/popular posts or collections with those tags. This can be done a variety of different ways. Here’s snippets of my characters Daniel, Maddie and Viv’s boards to give you an idea. I knew everything about my character Aiden before making his board and nothing about my other character Daniel, aside from his sexuality and ethnicity. These are all important things to consider when making a board, but you don’t have to know it all right off the bat. What do they look like? What kind of clothes do they wear? Where do they live? Where do they want to live? What do they like to do? What’s their personality like? What’s their favorite color? Their favorite food? I’ve even made mood boards for myself and my friends.Ĥ. Have an idea of what your character is like.Įven just a vague idea is fine, but make sure you have something in mind before you start searching for photos to add to their board. On WeHeartIt, they’re called “Collections,” and they’re super easy and addictive to make. Create a blank board, and name it after one of your characters for reference. The process is pretty easy, and usually free!ģ. To make a board on these websites, you’re gonna need a profile. If you decide to use WeHeartIt too, don’t be alarmed at the girly-ness of the website! There are photos for just about anything on there if you look hard enough.) You can also use this website on its app, which I find especially useful when I want to admire my boards in bed at 2 a.m. You can use Pinterest, WeHeartIt, or even print out photos from Tumblr and paste them on a poster board or in a notebook!įor the sake of this tutorial, I’ll be using WeHeartIt! I find it’s the easiest and the most aesthetically appealing. Of course, you can’t make a mood board if you don’t know what you’re going to make it on, and there are a lot of options.

#Aesthetic mood board how to#

So, without further ado, here’s how to make one. It’s just so fun, and I will often look at my character’s boards only to admire them.Īnd get this: it helps you flesh out your characters much like a character chart does (almost enough to make the process of filling them out bearable afterwards).

I don’t know why I didn’t do this sooner. And yes, I have officially found something even better than those 5 fun ways to develop your characters I wrote about a while ago.Īnd that, my friends, is making character mood boards. Yes, I still try to fill them out and get bored every time.