Listening to music and thinking about situations
make that character aroace. NOW!
WHOA!!!!! i love my friends' ocs
Reblog to let your friends know you love their ocs
Me when a song has honestly nothing to do at all with a character but I played it a lot while thinking about them
mARTch 10
Poses from my camera roll + a sleeping person from my brain
mARTch 7 (late)
A church near my grandparents' house
on the other hand you can tell what kind of person someone is based on their favorite discipline
Running a gala in my VTM game next week drop your character in the tags and I’ll have them make a little cameo
for all the artists out there, here are my favorite resources i use to learn!
Files
YouTube
Websites
>Opens Google Drive links >Multiple Art books >100+ pages long each
This is gonna be good
This is gonna be epic
Reblogging again
the suffering never ends
This is the real process
Resources for you!
Character Ideas:
- Character creation masterpost
- Character Alignment Chart
- More character alignment descriptions
- Muslim Character questions
- Characters with magical powers
- Building a new character advice
- How to create a character for an online or tabletop RPG (also a good guide on creating characters in general)
- Royalty/nobility TV Tropes page
- Basic character profile
- OC masterpost
- Random character generators - (1), (2), (3), (4)
- D&D Character Building Tool
Character Design Ideas:
- How clothing affects a character’s personality
- Character Design Inspiration blog
- Concept art, fan art, cool art to be inspired by
- Character design references and inspiration
- Sources for POC character design ideas and models
- Create your own character model using HeroForge
- For horned characters
- Body and hair types guide
- Random outfit generator
Naming Help:
- Amazing site with an endless amount of naming resources
- General advice on avoiding naming appropriation
- Hispanic Surnames
- Gothic Victorian names
- Huge master list for character things in general
- Masterlist of names of all types - including but not limited to ancient/old world names, Celtic, African, Northern European, Southern and Central American Native names, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Polynesian, and more
- Another name masterlist
- How to pick a character name guide
- Yet another names masterlist
Creating Background/backstory:
- Character Sheet/Development Sheet
- Another character development list
- In-depth character personality, motivations and traits sheet
- 320 talents and passions for characters
- On writing likes and dislikes that aren’t frivolous
- Why you should write non-human characters non-conforming to the gender binary
- Stereotypes, tropes, and archetypes
- Random backstory generator
- Assassin and thief character tropes to avoid
Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:
- Comparing character height/height references
- Characters who are scientists and writing about them doing science
- Describing what different voices sound like
- Describing skin tones
- Writing friendship interactions that are platonic
- Why having one character knock their friend unconscious to prevent them from doing something is a bad idea
- Advice on shipping OCs with canon characters and what to avoid doing
- Sweet Polly Oliver and Sweet on Polly Oliver situations (think of Disney’s Mulan for an example)
- How to write multiple viewpoints/juggling a main cast of more than 4 to 6 characters
- How to make readers care about your morally gray hero/anti-hero
- On platonic OC and canon character relationships
- How to avoid Godmodding in RPs
- When it’s cheap to kill off a character
- Writing dialogue
- Things you shouldn’t do to canon characters
- Avoiding purple prose in writing and RPs
- Slang resources
- Dialogue tips
- Websites to chart your story/plot/character relationships
BLESS EVERYONE IN THIS POST.
Oh my God!
It’s amazing, some links aren’t working for me but those who are, are spectacular.
Reblogging because NAMING IS HARD
!!!!!!!
No more questions about how good of a sire is your character
How good of a adopted sire would your character to be on a scale from one to ten
mARTch 4: Object Study
Just a spool of thread I had on my desk
Why can't I be a professional blorbo thinker
Why won't someone pay me thousands of dollars an hour to think about my blorbos
“whatever the fuck these two characters had going on” is a vastly underrated character dynamic
“Weird about each other” is how I’ve always put it. It’s my favorite thing.
my OCs are sooo cool you guys don't know what you're missing. if you could see the show i'm watching in my head rn you'd go so crazy i'm telling u
mARTch day 1 - self portrait
Seeing as I've had a buzz cut for well over a year now, this seems like a great time to finally update my pfp :) old one under the cut