Character Designer Mega Bundle Review: Procreate Tools for Creating Characters
Designing original characters can be exciting, but getting from a blank canvas to a convincing silhouette often takes time. Artists need to experiment with body proportions, poses, shapes, sketching tools, and clean linework before a character begins to feel distinctive. The Character Designer Mega Bundle by Manero Brushes combines modular character-building assets with a large collection of Procreate drawing and inking brushes to make that process more flexible.
The Character Designer Mega Bundle combines two Manero Brushes products: the MB Character Designer Toolkit and The Comic-Book Artist Brush Set for Procreate.
The Character Designer Toolkit provides modular body-part shapes that artists can combine to explore different character proportions and silhouettes. The Comic-Book Artist set adds 64 brushes intended for sketching, drawing, inking, comics, cartoons, and illustration.
Together, these resources provide tools for both early character exploration and more refined drawing.
One of the bundle's most interesting features is its library of 170 modular character shapes, including 40 heads, 50 bodies, 40 pairs of legs, and 40 arms.
Artists can combine different components to quickly experiment with silhouettes and proportions before committing to a detailed design. This can be particularly useful when brainstorming cartoon characters, comic personalities, stylized figures, or visual-development concepts.
The character assets are supplied as Procreate brushes and PNG images. The PNG format also makes the modular assets usable in applications that support imported images and layers, including Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint.
Once a basic character concept has been established, the included Comic-Book Artist Brush Set provides tools for developing it further.
Its 64 brushes cover drawing and inking tasks that can support character design, comics, cartoons, and general illustration. Having the concept-building assets and drawing brushes together may reduce the need to switch between separate character-design resources.
Updated for Modern Procreate Workflows
The bundle has received several updates, including categorized brushes, monochrome thumbnails designed for clearer navigation, Apple Pencil hover support, and barrel-roll or azimuth functionality on supported brushes and devices.
The included Procreate brush sets currently require Procreate 5.4 or later. The Character Designer brush sets can also be downloaded together as a dedicated Procreate brush library.
Who Is This For?
This bundle may suit character designers, comic artists, cartoonists, illustrators, concept artists, and Procreate users who enjoy experimenting with stylized characters. It could also help artists who find it difficult to generate varied silhouettes and body proportions from scratch.
Pros and Cons
Pros
170 modular character-design shapes
Includes 64 sketching and inking brushes
PNG assets work beyond Procreate
Useful for brainstorming different silhouettes
Supports modern Apple Pencil features
Cons
Procreate brushes require Procreate 5.4+
Modular assets are starting points rather than finished character designs
Some features depend on compatible Apple Pencil hardware
Conclusion
The Character Designer Mega Bundle combines rapid character exploration with practical drawing and inking tools. Its modular shapes can help artists test unusual proportions and silhouettes, while the included brushes support the transition from rough concept to polished illustration.
If you want a flexible toolkit for developing characters, comics, or cartoons, explore the Character Designer Mega Bundle on Gumroad.
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