Time for the next archetype as we go through the 12 most common archetypes is: The Magician. The Magician is right up there with The Hero as one of the most common archetypes that you will find, especially if the story follows the traditional structure of 'The Hero's Journey.' Wherever you have a character who is seen as a prophet, a wizard, a wise man, or maybe even that crazy old kook who talks to himself and lives underneath a bridge. Regardless of the state in which you find 'The Magician', the core of the character remains the same, that they have a decidedly clear power or understanding that is special and beyond that of a normal person in their world. Whether through supernatural ability, physical ability or higher knowledge, the core of all of this is the desire for more of that power. The choice as to whether obtaining that power is a good or bad thing is up to you, and where it gets important to define whether you have a more heroic magician on your hand, or an outright villain. The cool thing about 'The Magician' is that they aren't locked solely into fantasy or actual magic in order to fit into this archetype. It could look more like science or technology or influence (political or otherwise). Many times in a story, it is The Magician who comes along and helps to push our hero into action, helping to be the catalyst to start their journey and begin. Pride, hubris, corruption and disassociation can be some built in pitfalls/weaknesses for this archetype, which is super helpful to know in order to help make a compelling character-based story. Understanding those pitfalls will help to balance out the power, whether its true omnipotence or omniscience and help create some built in conflict to be catered to the character's arc. Some examples of 'The Magician' are: Saurumon (LOTR) Gandalf (LOTR) Morpheus (The Matrix) Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars) Professor Severus Snape (Harry Potter) 'Q' or 'Q-Branch' (Bond Franchise) All desire obtaining more in some shape or form. From political power, power over nature, power over man or the obtaining of wisdom and intelligence beyond that of a normal person. Figuring out how the Magician character acts once they achieve that goal is up to you, and it can have pretty large story ramifications!

The most common and frankly, most versatile of all the archetypes: ‘The Hero’. The most important attribute here is the character’s arc, and how they go from one state to another, since you can mix a bunch of other attributes to ‘The Hero’ to make it an antihero, a superhero, a reluctant hero, an everyman hero, etc... the archetype is your oyster! Share your version of a hero archetype in the comments or in a fresh post!

Rolling into the next archetype this April, it's 'The Hero' archetype! I'm pretty confident I don't need to overly explain this one since it really is one of, if not the most, popular of all the archetypes. Even if it isn't your favorite, or the most popular to you, as storytellers it is certainly the one we are the most familiar with. So much so that 'The Hero's Journey' is an extremely helpful tool in structuring a solid and compelling story. (I do go into 'The Hero's Journey' in my 90-Day Comic Course, so if you are more interested in learning more about it, consider the course!) So what the deal? Why do we use this archetype so often? One of the answers is because it is so relatable. The hero often comes from an area of humble beginnings, and often with some sort of potential they either do or do not entirely know about. Whether you are looking at a character like Luke Skywalker as a simple farm boy who is destined to learn from an old space wizard on how to also become a space wizard or even characters from classic mythology like Odysseus, a warrior-king who came to aid in a bronze age epic and simply wants to go home, but must use every bit of his strength, intelligence and ingenuity to make it home, the thing that unifies those hero archetypes with us is their relatability and their more down-to-earth nature, and that we see them go from one condition at the beginning of the story, to a new and wiser/stronger condition at the end, thus completing a character arc. Another answer is, at least the way I like to think of it is :'The Hero' is a 'flex' or 'modifier' archetype. You can use 'The Hero' and its general structure of story elements and strengths and weaknesses and add a second 'flex' or 'modifier' to 'The Hero.' Things like: The Everyman Hero The Anti-Hero The Tragic Hero The Epic Hero The Superhero All these narrow the storytelling elements down and help direct your character's journey, and ultimately give you a more well rounded and interesting character to lead your story. 'The Hero' really is a versitle archetype, hence why it is so widely used in storytelling!

Feeling motivated!

I read a great book a week ago, that had a good point "Creativity is about less and using constraints" If youre trying to create a comic, or anything, its better to make constraints for the creative aspect of it than have every idea in use of your hands. Also stealing 1 idea from some one is stealing, and stealing 100 ideas and mixing them is "being is original" And have other hobbies than drawing aswell, watching for example cartoons may give u inspiration or running outside hours a day might help u generate many high quality ideas Here are some of the few rhings that sticked out for me in the book