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hasbledtodeathunderourknife · 3 months ago

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It’s actually really interesting to me.

You start out with more variety. Common theme of the few things described in the podcast, and often like, a color from the podcast.

Then as more and more fanart is made, a pretty consistent character design is born? Everyone influences eachother to the point where there’s a sort of expectation for the design, and it’ll look weird if it’s significantly different. People still have their own designs it’s just there’s a few features that make the character recognizable, even though the character doesn’t actually canonically have any of those features.

Over time the norm for the character design might change a bit, especially if a popular artist does something a little different. It’s just fun to see how we’re all inspired by each other and end up sort of collectively designing a character.

fanart for podcast characters is so funny like how do you know

#like I can recognize a Jon and a Martin #daisy and bashira and Tim? a little less consensus #for TMA #malevolent is another good example #Oscar has got a specific look. the darkish curls and freckles like you see him looking like that a lot #it’s not that all the designs look the same #it’s just like #there’s some features that become the default #as the design for that character yk #anyway the shift over time I feel like Nightvale designs have shifted #older vs newer art #it’s been around long enough you can like #see the influences of the time ig lol #Quinn replies #podcasts #fiction podcast #I feel like Sydney is very recognizable but I haven’t seen all that much camp here and there stuff #anyway there are a lot #it’s funny tho because I am just not someone who imagines characters appearance much #like at all really #I don’t think of them as visual characters (until I see fanart)#I just don’t tend to think in pictures quite like that #I love all the fanart

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