He is not a conceptual artist who sits in a room devising characters to illustrate a theory: he works from life and memory.
While Moore devised character notes for Gibbons to work from, the artist provided a name and a costume design for Hollis Mason he had created when he was twelve.
She devised character-profile cards that showed how individuals with autism, dyslexia, Tourette's, Damp or ADHD may have talents waiting to be discovered.
Deciding that the only chance she has of getting Will to take an interest in his own future is to make him take an interest in hers, she devises character-building adventures they can undertake together for her benefit.
Enfield describes it as a rip-off of Viz, and has often said he deliberately devised characters with catchphrases because they appealed to children, and children controlled what families watched on TV – so the strategy clearly worked.
Devising her character takes a lot of time and effort.
He came up with the story of the wrongfully accused brother, and began working on the plot outline and devising the characters.
She devised a character, Jane the Concussion Slayer, based on her childhood icon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Drawing on influences from literary science fiction, Mézières and Christin devised the character of Valérian, a spatio-temporal agent from the 28th century employed by Galaxity, the capital of the future Earth, to protect space and time from interference.
It can seem, in fact, that he devises his characters largely for the sake of what he (or Juliet, his narrator) will say about them.
In the future, we must devise a character-input algorithm that eliminates such erroneous input.
