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oc-qotd · 9 months ago

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Visualizing your Character

Not everyone is an artist. Many people tend to have OCs they can draw, or art is the medium through which they like representing their character. Perhaps that is you. Awesome! But, I know there are people out there who prefer writing about the character — maybe you have a Pinterest board or a popular character you model your OC’s physical appearance after. I for one dabble in drawing, but prefer some other way to visualize my characters.

Enter the obligatory AI discourse. I admit, I’ve used AI once or twice to play around with visualizing characters. I never use it for a final copy, based on my own preferences. I prefer to use other sources to visualize my characters.

My go-to is ALWAYS picrew. I love picrew!!! The original website is in Japanese, so I use a translator when I’m visualizing my characters. These are character customization creators made and uploaded by actual artists!! Most include a watermark so you can find them on social media too. The best part is there are so many different artists and styles that you can pick one that matches your story / character / vibe.

If I want a full body look at a character, I tend to use heroforge. Total disclaimer: heroforge is a website originally created to customize and order fantasy / dnd / pathfinder mini figures. Regardless, it’s a good way to design a 3D render of your character with presets and customizable color options. You can also opt to purchase the figure or an acrylic mini of your character!

Picrew is totally accessible on either computers or mobile. Heroforge is technically “usable” on mobile, but I highly recommend using a device like a computer that has better graphics, so you don’t miss anything. Also the user interface is way better on PC.

#visualizing completely in your head is cool too #I just like making little guys #commissioning artists is super cool too #I’m really poor so I like to do this #one day I will commission an artist and use picrew as reference images #oc #original character #character creation #character concept #visualizing your character

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toorumlk · 6 months ago

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ron and hermione photographed on the steps of their first home together makes it into the Prophet

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canisalbus · 3 months ago

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I have a dachshund and one day she looked at me with the sun behind her and her ears were glowing from the backlight. It made me want to draw a picture of Vasco that way! So here’s my best attempt at capturing the halo ear effect that occurred. Bonus: Vasco as a candy corn because his colors made me think of candy corn.

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#Vasco looking even more angelic than usual :o #oh man the halo effect oh it fits perfectly with his sun/light theming #I think light passing through soft tissue like this is called subsurface scattering #and I've said this many times before but it's one of those visual effects I wish I could do well #it instantly makes your characters seem warm and living #and here it's making Vasco's ears look like AMBER augh #I also love the way his eyes glint in the shaded version he's got such a disarming irresistable look in them #thank you!#say hi to your sausage dog from me #gift art #rainsnap #Vasco #own characters #the candy corn Vasco TvT #I know candy corn but I've never eaten any #it's not a thing where I live #it doesn't actually taste like corn does it?

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debbie-sketch · 6 months ago

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A fun family commission I worked on these last days. Its always great to do magical family moments they can treasure.

#artists on tumblr #illustration #animation #cute #artists of tumblr #character design #digital art #commission #dragons #dragon #dad #dad and son #commission art #open commissions #how to train your dragon #fantasy #concept art #visdev #visual development

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meo-eiru · 8 months ago

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DUDE I JUST PLAYED THROUGH THE GAME, WHY IS IT SO SADDDD😭😭😭

and why is he hot

Starling went through quite a few redesigns through the entire development process so let me talk about it a bit :3

It all started with this notes app drawing I made with my finger

Right from the start we knew his tail would be made out of tongues but figuring out how many and placed how was quite hard, I really had to girlmath my way thru

This was the first actual drawing I made of him. The story wasn't complete yet but I went ahead and designed something anyway. Here he was definitely "scarier" and his scar was also placed differently. He had gills on his neck but as you will see I changed their location to under his arms later on. We were actually considering not giving him a tongue of his own so I wanted to make his mouth terrifyingly big and empty.

Here I tried giving him bigger eyes like a fish. This was when his playful and childlike personality had started shaping as you can see from the expressions. I definitely liked this direction better but it also wasn't perfect just yet so I went ahead and did a few more changes

I slowed down on trying to figure out his design a bit after that and instead focused on how his sprite would look. He is a merman after all, he can't just stand straight like a lot of the other visual novel characters. This stage was PAINFUL.

These were the first ones I sketched, we ended up deciding we liked the 3rd one the best.

I carried that 3rd one over to another canvas and started playing around with how we could place his tail, we started entertaining the idea of having him sit on a big rock

This is when his pose really shaped up. The animated Little Mermaid movie was actually a big inspiration, I sat and rewatched the entire movie and studied how they animated her tail

And after that I finally finalized his design. We decided to change the end of his tail to be more eel like for aesthetic purposes (normal tail shape looked weird with tongues)

And for anyone wondering this is what Maelyn looked like at first. Since the story wasn't complete yet I thought it'd take place in a more modern setting and designed her with that in mind but we decided to have the story take place in 1800s so I changed the design based on that. I did a lot of research on glasses and corsets to make the design as accurate as I could.

Yes glasses! We didn't use the sprites in the main story but Maelyn does wear glasses and looks very pretty in them if you ask me. You will be seeing more of it in the bonus episodes!

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clickety-clacker · 5 months ago

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Been seeing so many cool Clickies on my dashboard since getting into GGG, I just had to take the time to draw a few of them- plus, it was a bit of a challenge to try new styles. A lot of these guys were also super influential to how I draw and even think about Click Clack on my own time, so you should definitely check them out! Names below the cut cus it got long heehoo

Top left: @malartsorte

Top middle (holding papers): @scribblelimbo

Top right: @wishgraanted

Leftmost middle: @beastwhimsy

Middle (peace sign!): @sootnuki

Rightmost middle: @molabuddy

Bottom left: @pespillo

Bottom middle: @artuurle

Bottom right: @modmad

I know I said it already, but all of yall are super cool and I had a lot of fun challenging myself to make this! Keep on being awesome 👍

#ggg #great god grove #click clack #my art #genuinely some of you guys completely changed how i interpret click clack. for real #both visually yes but also like #as a character.#special shoutout to malartsorte and modmad for being huge influences on my headcanons #a lot of stuff yall brought up was stuff i never even considered. its cool #beastwhimsy has always been a huge inspiration for my art style and is one of the reasons i gave ggg a try #in the first place #and ur click is so cuuute and awesome and was the first insp i remember seeing of bnuuy click. changed me #graant's fic holds a VERY special place in my heart its so good. and your take on click clack is so fucking unique and phenomenal #as much as your writing is #pespillo has such a fuckin cute click (and thesp) and has really neat takes ive delighted in reading #SOOTNUKI has been a huge insp for a lot of thangs and also just a delight to see art from. i get so happy every time i see one of ur guys #crossing my dash #marc. points at you. i fuckin love ur click hes so awesome #sophies art is so fucking pleasing and helps remind me that he is cartoony cus i tend to drift towards the realism side #and then i see ur stuff and go wait. cartoony stuff is so pleasing and fun. and i do it and have fun!!!!!!!#and artuurle. duude idk all of your stuff is fucking phenomenal. every time i see a post from you i get so excited #both your art and aus and headcanons and everything is all so so so delightful #im so glad to be able to see so many cool artists doing cool things #wow i rambled a lot in here. uh. if youre reading this still. sorry(?)#have a nice day

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aroaceleovaldez · 5 months ago

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mildly entertaining pjo fandom curse (mostly in that you can make games out of it):

everybody draws Piper showing skin. half the time Shel as well. literally almost EVERYBODY. go look at Piper fanart. is she wearing a crop top? i bet she is. or if she's wearing a dress hers is gonna be one of the most revealing. bonus points if they gave her a belly button piercing. and it's almost always only Piper and/or Shel. i thought we had a whole discussion about sexualizing young indigenous girls back in like 2021 but i guess nobody processed that part cause pjo fandom acts like if they dont have Piper show her stomach or have her shirt ride up they'll die.

the curse is that you will never unsee this. have fun with that.

#pjo #riordanverse #piper mclean #my friend inflicted this curse onto me and now i must inflict it unto you #like obviously just drawing Piper wearing a croptop by itself is not egregious on it's own but its EVERYBODY *ONLY* draws her in a croptop #as like her default outfit. constantly.#and *ONLY* her. this is not done for any other characters - including other Aphrodite kids. Only Piper (and maybe Shel)#anyways this is what i have to deal with every time i look at piper fanart #its like same 4 things: crop top. bad skin tones and/or stereotyped nose. feathers. and/or beaded earrings #thats it thats all Piper fanart in a nutshell #(the last one like nine times out of ten ends up just feeling like exoticization)#(cause if pjo fandom doesnt have a visual indicator of her being native american or cant ''make her look 'more native''' they die or smth)#btw if you ever say the phrase ''make her look 'more native''' about Piper or Shel or etc i'll eat your kneecaps #saying those words gives me legal permission to hunt you for sport. btw. it also means you owe me 20 dollars.#anyways fun drinking game or etc: take a shot every time piper has a crop top or her shirt up somehow in fanart #warning: my friend and i played this game with water and we both finished like two full bottles of water in like an hour #its REALLY BAD #we literally have a game of every time we share piper fanart in the gc one of us will call out ''her stomach is showing'' and we all scream

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lunacias · 1 year ago

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She's feeling a swell of an emotion at confessing all of this. She works to get it under control. /// Although he can't understand her, HAYWARD, too, is choking up a little at the sound of PAIGE's voice.

#the silt verses #james hayward #paige duplass #tsv #digital #the way i tried rushing this before when I thought the new episode would be (monday)#tsv coming in clutch and not releasing until thursday *throws confetti*#my laptop and tablet gave me such a hard time this week LOL #anyway #it's been weeks and I still cannot stop thinking about this part #i think there is something about being comforted by someone even if you're not /necessarily/ in the same moment #idk how else to describe it like the visual of them sitting by themselves in the dark #fiddling desperately with the radio in hopes they can speak to one another #(btw none of this is representative of what I think the actual scene looked like just entirely off vibes)#being comforted by the presence on the other end that they can juuust ever so slightly feel #even if neither are necessarily on the same page #they mean so much to me your honor!!#like not even as a ship they just mean so much to me i love them i love these characters I can't believe it's ending soon #alt id in the image description!#artists on tumblr

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sunnyknight-original · 4 months ago

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KINGERS GAMBIT - CHAPTER 1

“Why couldn’t we just play in the tent-“

(Work In Progress and Behind The Scenes stuff in my Shitpost account!)

#WELCOME TO MY KINGER AND CAINE ANALYSIS COMIC #REFRESHMENTS WILL NOT BE PROVIDED!!!!!#Caine TADC #Kinger TADC #TADC #The Amazing Digital Circus #TADC comic #im gonna refrain from yapping too much about their characters/relationship here #cause i wanna see how well I can rely on only my visuals to get my point across!#as torturous as thatll be!#but uh what i will say is the biggest reason i delayed on making this for as long as i did #was cause i didnt wanna mischaracterize my 2 favorite guys on accident #but im cool now and i got over that #but also omg please critique i love getting better at writing and analyzing writing #pretty please #ANYWHO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME #idk when the next update will be but the whole chapter scripted out-

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louksna-0 · 5 months ago

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Peter: god, i swear.. she gets on my nerves! She never leaves me alone!

Jane: pfft- no way you're serious...

Peter: What?

Jane: ..Oh nothing, it just.... seems rather hypocritical, doesn't it?

Peter: Oh, shut up! this is not the same.

Jane: Then, how about YOU leave?

Peter: ....

Peter: You also get on my nerves...

(He in fact, doesn't leave either.)

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00nox00 · 3 months ago

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Visual novel available on itchio for Windows and Android (translated into Spanish and English)

The story begins with you trapped in a state of captivity and suffering. However, it soon becomes clear that the guard watching over you has an obsessive interest in you, going so far as to commit brutal and macabre acts in the name of love.

As the story progresses, you attempt to manipulate the guard into gaining your freedom, using emotional tactics to achieve this. Despite this, the guard continues to show a disturbing devotion to you, even after being rejected.

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•mature content

•Dark and psychological content

•rape

•mutilation

•suicide

•violence

Novela visual disponible en itchio para Windows y Android (traducido al español y al inglés)

La historia comienza cuando te encuentras en una situación de cautiverio y sufrimiento. Sin embargo, pronto se revela que el guardia que te cuida tiene un interés obsesivo contigo, llegando a realizar actos brutales y macabros en nombre del amor.

A medida que avanza la historia, intentas manipular al guardia para obtener tú libertad, utilizando tácticas emocionales para lograrlo. A pesar de esto, el guardia sigue mostrando una devoción perturbadora hacia ti, incluso despuésd de ser rechazado.

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•contenido maduro

•Contenido oscuro y psicológico

•violacion

•mutilación

•suicidio

•violencia