#tipping in sheets

[luna-azzurra]

Describe your Main Character sheet

Skin

Tone: Pale, Rosy, Olive, Dark, Tanned, Alabaster, Ebony, Bronze, Golden, Fair

Texture: Smooth, Rough, Silky, Coarse, Flaky, Supple, Wrinkled, Calloused, Bumpy

Condition: Moles, Acne, Dry, Greasy, Freckled, Scars, Birthmarks, Bruised, Sunburned, Flawless

Complexion: Clear, Ruddy, Sallow, Glowing, Dull, Even-toned, Blotchy

Eyes

Size: Small, Large, Average, Tiny, Bulging, Narrow

Color: Grey, Brown, Blue, Violet, Pink, Green, Gold, Hazel, Crimson, Amber, Turquoise, Sapphire, Onyx

Shape: Doe-eyed, Almond, Close-set, Wide-set, Round, Oval, Hooded, Monolid

Expression: Deep-set, Squinty, Monolid, Heavy eyelids, Upturned, Downturned, Piercing, Gentle, Sparkling, Steely

Other: Glassy, Bloodshot, Tear-filled, Clear, Glinting, Shiny

Hair

Thickness: Thin, Thick, Fine, Normal

Texture: Greasy, Dry, Soft, Shiny, Curly, Frizzy, Wild, Unruly, Straight, Smooth, Wavy, Floppy

Length: Cropped, Pixie-cut, Afro, Shoulder length, Back length, Waist length, Past hip-length, Buzz cut, Bald

Styles: Weave, Hair extensions, Jaw length, Layered, Mohawk, Dreadlocks, Box braids, Faux locks, Braid, Ponytail, Bun, Updo

Color: White, Salt and pepper, Platinum blonde, Golden blonde, Dirty blonde, Blonde, Strawberry blonde, Ash brown, Mouse brown, Chestnut brown, Golden brown, Chocolate brown, Dark brown, Jet black, Ginger, Red, Auburn, Dyed, Highlights, Low-lights, Ombre

Eyebrows: Thin eyebrows, Average eyebrows, Thick eyebrows, Plucked eyebrows, Bushy eyebrows, Arched eyebrows, Straight eyebrows

Lips

Shape: Full, Thin, Heart-shaped, Bow-shaped, Wide, Small

Texture: Chapped, Smooth, Cracked, Soft, Rough

Color: Pale, Pink, Red, Crimson, Brown, Purple, Nude

Expression: Smiling, Frowning, Pursed, Pouting, Curved, Neutral, Tight-lipped, Parted

Nose

Shape: Button, Roman, Hooked, Aquiline, Flat, Pointed, Wide, Narrow, Crooked, Upturned, Snub

Size: Small, Large, Average, Long, Short

Condition: Freckled, Sunburned, Smooth, Bumpy

Build

Frame: Petite, Slim, Athletic, Muscular, Average, Stocky, Large, Lean, Stout, Bony, Broad-shouldered, Narrow-shouldered

Height: Short, Tall, Average, Petite, Giant

Posture: Upright, Slouched, Rigid, Relaxed, Graceful, Awkward, Stiff, Hunched

Hands

Size: Small, Large, Average, Delicate, Strong

Texture: Smooth, Rough, Calloused, Soft, Firm

Condition: Clean, Dirty, Manicured, Scarred, Wrinkled

Nails: Short, Long, Polished, Chipped, Clean, Dirty, Painted, Natural

Voice

Tone: Deep, High, Soft, Loud, Raspy, Melodic, Monotonous, Hoarse, Clear, Gentle

Volume: Loud, Soft, Whispery, Booming, Muted

Pace: Fast, Slow, Steady, Hasty, Measured

Expression: Cheerful, Sad, Angry, Calm, Anxious, Confident, Nervous, Excited, Bored

[how-to-get-away-with-study]

Coffee brought to you in bed is something else ☕

[thepedanticbohemian]

[writerthreads]

Super detailed character profile chart

Character Name:

First Name:

Last Name:

Nickname (if any):

Basic Information:

Age:

Gender:

Date of Birth:

Place of Birth:

Nationality:

Physical Appearance:

Height:

Weight:

Build:

Hair Color:

Eye Color:

Scars or distinguishing marks:

Personality Traits:

Positive Traits:

Negative Traits:

Background and History:

Family Background:

Parents:

Siblings (if any):

Childhood:

Education:

School/College/University:

Major/Area of Study:

Favorite Subjects:

Least Favorite Subjects:

Career/Profession:

Current Occupation:

Previous Jobs (if any):

Career Goals:

Hobbies and Interests:

Hobbies:

Interests:

Relationships:

Marital Status:

Romantic Relationships (if any):

Friendships:

Closest Friends:

Relationship dynamics:

Strengths and Weaknesses:

Strengths:

Weaknesses:

Goals and Ambitions:

Short-term Goals:

Long-term Goals:

Fears and Insecurities:

Common Fears:

Insecurities:

Quirks and Habits:

Quirks:

Habits:

Beliefs and Values:

Religious or Spiritual Beliefs:

Moral Code:

Political Views:

Favorites:

Favorite Foods:

Favorite Books:

Favorite Movies/TV Shows:

Favorite Music:

Favorite Color:

Dislikes:

Disliked Foods:

Disliked Activities:

Pet Peeves:

Miscellaneous:

Talents or Skills:

Secrets (if any):

Motivations:

What drives the character forward?

What are their ultimate aspirations?

Character Arc:

How does the character change or evolve throughout the story?

Feel free to adapt and expand upon this template!

[gleafer]

Hi!

Your art is SO GOOD!!!

I wish I could draw as good as you.

When it comes to drawing a singular character in a simple pose, I can manage that.

But when I try to draw something a bit complex or draw comics of my own, I struggle a lot. Especially when there are multiple characters interacting.

I have so much going on in my head but I'm unable to put it on paper.

Can you please share some tips or resources to get better at art?

Again, your art is ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS and I LOVE how you draw the movements of the characters!!!

YES I CAN!

Here’s a Gleafer Quicky cheat sheet!

[highlandkall]

been thinking about these LocalScriptMan character sheets and im convinced filling these out would help anyone with an OC ^^

(there's a vid explaining them too) i don't think they're aesthetically interesting enough to become a trend like how most character sheets work? But I've been using them for writing projects they make the important bits way easier ^^

[thatsbelievable]

[thewriteadviceforwriters]

43 character motivations for your fictional characters

To protect their loved ones.

To avenge the death of a loved one.

To save the world/town/community.

To find a lost loved one.

To solve a mystery.

To right a wrong.

To achieve a personal goal.

To gain power or influence.

To find their purpose in life.

To overcome a fear or obstacle.

To learn to trust again.

To forgive themselves or someone else.

To find love or companionship.

To start a new life.

To leave a legacy behind.

To make a difference in the world.

To simply survive.

To gain revenge.

To seek power.

To find redemption.

To follow their dreams.

To escape their past.

To find their true self.

To connect with something larger than themselves.

To understand the world around them.

To experience something new.

To simply have fun.

To make a mistake.

To learn from their mistakes.

To grow as a person.

To become the best version of themselves.

To help others.

To make a difference in the world.

To leave a legacy behind.

To be remembered.

To be loved.

To be happy.

To find peace.

To find hope.

To overcome despair.

To survive.

To thrive.

To live.

Copyright © 2023 by Ren T.

TheWriteAdviceForWriters 2023

[coffeetank]

Opposing Qualities for your Characters!

I always advocate the concept of Traits and their Inverses when making characters. If you're familiar with my blog, you'll know that in one of my posts, I've told you to use opposing qualities when you make a character to make them real. Here's a link to that post if you haven't come across it yet so you can understand this better: https://www.tumblr.com/coffeetank/747126821111447552/build-characters?source=share ~ List of more opposing qualities to give your characters: persuasive :: manipulative (your character has a way with words and sometimes uses this to get away with things)

humble :: underconfident (your character does not have an ego at all, but they are in actuality always underconfident - show how this can affect their surroundings especially in a situation where others depend on them)

independent :: alienated (your character can do everything on their own and quite literally does not need anyone around, show how this can crossover over with alienation - dig into the emotional background of this supposed crossover)

curious :: invasive (your character has an appetite for knowledge, but they forget boundaries - show how this can get them into trouble)

daring :: reckless (your character has a strong spirit and isn't scared of taking risks, but this can always incline to the bad side and cause them harm - use this to especially add event and conflict in the story)

neutral :: retracted (your character prefers to see both sides before coming to a conclusion and stays neutral 99% of the times, but then when one side needs them more than the other they refuse to acknowledge that need and pull themselves out of that situation - show how this this can affect their relationships with other people especially on a moral ground)

emotional :: irrational (it's always good for your character to have emotional capacity, but it can hinder with their practical side for sure - show how this plays out)

unique :: aberrant (your character has a very solid personality but then some their quirks are too odd to be normal - this is good for revealing an undercover villain/agent/supernatural being later in the story as a twist)

optimistic :: unserious (your character is a positive person, but they take life too lightly sometimes - play with it!)

appealing :: deceptive (your character is absolute delight to be around and wins hearts in an instant - show how they use this power of their to deceive people for their own benefit)

hopeful :: expectant (your character wishes for the bright side - show how this can transverse into having unfulfilled expectations thus making them act out wrongly due to disappointment)

clever :: cunning (as obvious as it sounds, your character uses their intelligence for the wrong - bonus if you mix this with another set of opposing qualities to add depth and layers to your characters)

short-tempered :: violent (easy, simple and impactful; your character loses temper quickly but they damage things around them with every small/big outburst)

Feel free to use these as you'd like! I'll bring you more soon.

-ashlee

[physalian]

You don’t have to pay for that fancy worldbuilding program

As mentioned in this post about writing with executive dysfunction, if one of your reasons to keep procrastinating on starting your book is not being able to afford something like World Anvil or Campfire, I’m here to tell you those programs are a luxury, not a necessity: Enter Google Suite (not sponsored but gosh I wish).

MS Office offers more processing power and more fine-tuning, but Office is expensive and only autosaves to OneDrive, and I have a perfectly healthy grudge against OneDrive for failing to sync and losing 19k words of a WIP that I never got back.

Google’s sync has never failed me, and the Google apps (at least for iPhone) aren’t nearly as buggy and clunky as Microsoft’s. So today I’m outlining the system I used for my upcoming fantasy novel with all the helpful pictures and diagrams. Maybe this won’t work for you, maybe you have something else, and that’s okay! I refuse to pay for what I can get legally for free and sometimes Google’s simplicity is to its benefit.

The biggest downside is that you have to manually input and update your data, but as someone who loves organizing and made all these willingly and for fun, I don’t mind.

So. Let’s start with Google Sheets.

The Character Cheat Sheet:

I organized it this way for several reasons:

I can easily see which characters belong to which factions and how many I have named and have to keep up with for each faction

All names are in alphabetical order so when I have to come up with a new name, I can look at my list and pick a letter or a string of sounds I haven’t used as often (and then ignore it and start 8 names with A).

The strikethrough feature lets me keep track of which characters I kill off (yes, I changed it, so this remains spoiler-free)

It’s an easy place to go instead of scrolling up and down an entire manuscript for names I’ve forgotten, with every named character, however minor their role, all in one spot

Also on this page are spare names I’ll see randomly in other media (commercials, movie end credits, etc) and can add easily from my phone before I forget

Also on this page are my summary, my elevator pitch, and important character beats I could otherwise easily mess up, it helps stay consistent

*I also have on here not pictured an age timeline for all my vampires so I keep track of who’s older than who and how well I’ve staggered their ages relative to important events, but it’s made in Photoshop and too much of a pain to censor and add here

On other tabs, I keep track of location names, deities, made-up vocabulary and definitions, and my chapter word count.

The Word Count Guide:

*3/30 Edit to update this chart to its full glory. Column 3 is a cumulative count. Most of what I write breaks 100k and it's fun watching the word count rise until it boils over.

This is the most frustrating to update manually, especially if you don’t have separate docs for each chapter, but it really helps me stay consistent with chapter lengths and the formula for calculating the average and rising totals is super basic.

Not that all your chapters have to be uniform, but if you care about that, this little chart is a fantastic visualizer.

If you have multiple narrators, and this book does, you can also keep track of how many POVs each narrator has, and how spread out they are. I didn’t do that for this book since it’s not an ensemble team and matters less, but I did for my sci-fi WIP, pictured below.

As I was writing that one, I had “scripted” the chapters before going back and writing out all the glorious narrative, and updated the symbols from “scripted” to “finished” accordingly.

I also have a pie chart that I had to make manually on a convoluted iPhone app to color coordinate specifically the way I wanted to easily tell who narrates the most out of the cast, and who needs more representation.

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Google Docs

Can’t show you much here unfortunately but I’d like to take an aside to talk about my “scene bits” docs.

It’s what it says on the tin, an entire doc all labeled with different heading styles with blurbs for each scene I want to include at some point in the book so I can hop around easily. Whether they make it into the manuscript or not, all practice is good practice and I like to keep old ideas because they might be useful in unsuspecting ways later.

Separate from that, I keep most of my deleted scenes and scene chunks for, again, possible use later in a “deleted scenes” doc, all labeled accordingly.

When I designed my alien language for the sci-fi series, I created a Word doc dictionary and my own "translation" matrix, for easy look-up or word generation whenever I needed it (do y'all want a breakdown for creating foreign languages? It's so fun).

Normally, as with my sci-fi series, I have an entire doc filled with character sheets and important details, I just… didn’t do that for this book. But the point is—you can still make those for free on any word processing software, you don’t need fancy gadgets.

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I hope this helps anyone struggling! It doesn’t have to be fancy. It doesn’t have to be expensive. Everything I made here, minus the aforementioned timeline and pie chart, was done with basic excel skills and the paint bucket tool. I imagine this can be applicable to games, comics, what have you, it knows no bounds!

Now you have one less excuse to sit down and start writing.

[vampiresinthedaylight]

my new favorite monster of the week battle manga, The Exorcist of Venice by radishanatomy

[luna-azzurra]

Crafting Unique Characters Workbook By Luna Azzurra on Amazon

[hyydraworks]

Another thing I forgot to throw in the shop preview are these new sea creachur sticker sheets!

[luvelydelilah]

Detailed Character Template

Feel free to edit to your liking. This is a more detailed and modern character sheet for casual or even fantasy roleplays and stories. You can even use this for just getting to know your character better! I recommend taking some time to fill this out and really thinking about some of these traits your character might have!

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  ‧˚꒰Demographics꒱༘⋆

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⭑Name: 

⭑Age:

⭑Sex:

⭑Gender:

⭑Ethnicity:

⭑Occupation:

⭑Socioeconomic Status:

⭑Education:

⭑Other:

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  ‧˚꒰Appearance꒱༘⋆

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⭑Eye Color:

⭑Skin Color:

⭑Hair Color:

⭑Height:

⭑Weight:

⭑Body Type:

⭑Fitness Level:

⭑Tattoos:

⭑Birthmarks:

⭑Distinguishing Features:

⭑Mobility Aids(?):

⭑Fashion Style:

⭑Accessories:

⭑Cleanliness/Grooming:

⭑Posture:

⭑Other:

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  ‧˚꒰History꒱༘⋆

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⭑Birth Date:

⭑Star Sign:

⭑Place of Birth:

⭑Previous Residences:

⭑Current Residence:

⭑Milestones:

⭑Criminal Record:

⭑Affiliations: 

⭑Accomplishments:

⭑Educational Background:

⭑Other:

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  ‧˚꒰Traits꒱༘⋆

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⭑Personality Type:

⭑Personality Traits:

⭑Introvert/Extrovert:

⭑Intelligence:

⭑Self-Esteem:

⭑Hobbies:

⭑Skills/Talents:

⭑Loves:

⭑Morals/Virtues:

⭑Phobias/Fears:

⭑Pet Peeves:

⭑Obsessed With:

⭑Routines:

⭑Bad Habits:

⭑Desires:

⭑Quirks:

⭑Flaws:

⭑Disabilities(?):

⭑Secrets:

⭑Regrets:

⭑Other:

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  ‧˚꒰Communication꒱༘⋆

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⭑Languages Known:

⭑Preferred Language:

⭑Accent:

⭑Mannerisms:

⭑Pitch:

⭑Laughter:

⭑Smile:

⭑Use of Gestures:

⭑Facial Expressions:

⭑Verbal Expression:

⭑Other:

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  ‧˚꒰Strengths, Weaknesses and Abilities꒱༘⋆

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⭑Physical Strengths:

⭑Physical Weaknesses:

⭑Intellectual Strengths:

⭑Intellectual Weaknesses:

⭑Interpersonal Strengths:

⭑Interpersonal Weaknesses:

⭑Physical Abilities:

⭑Magical Abilities:

⭑Physical Afflictions:

⭑Mental Afflictions:

⭑Other:

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  ‧˚꒰Relationships꒱༘⋆

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⭑Significant Other:

⭑Lover(s):

⭑Parents:

⭑Children:

⭑Grandparents:

⭑Grandchildren:

⭑Family:

⭑Pets:

⭑Best Friends:

⭑Friends:

⭑Rivals:

⭑Enemies:

⭑Colleagues:

⭑Mentors/Teachers:

⭑Idols/Role Models:

⭑Followers:

⭑Strangers:

⭑Social Media Presence:

⭑Other:

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  ‧˚꒰Character Growth꒱༘⋆

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⭑Character Archetype:

⭑Character Arc:

⭑Core Values:

⭑Internal Conflicts:

⭑External Conflicts:

⭑Goals:

⭑Motivations:

⭑Epiphanies:

⭑Significant Events:

⭑Other:

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[stroobooree]

A couple tips for drawing expressions I made just for funsies. Keep in mind that this might not be helpful for people with more “realistic” artstyles, but I hope it’s at least helpful for some people!! :)

[montesmithart]

Hello! I really like your use of empty space in your artworks, in that no space is ever empty; there’s always a little color, or a sparkle, or another element of your character’s design being showcased, and I really love how busy yet clean and interesting it makes your artworks! Do you have any advice for making compositions like yours? I am currently trying to make a reference for my peacemaker design, but I am struggling with making the page filled and how/where/what to place in various negative spaces

Hello! I don’t have any super specific guides for filling out the empty space, but I can try to explain how I do it! Hope this info will be useful for you 💛

If we are talking about the ref sheets, first I usually pick a 4000*3000 canvas size and enlarge it if as I go along I find that I'm running out of space!

(^ like here when I started with a 3000*4000 size and ended up with 3500*4000 because I needed to expand the space to add color palette and accessories)

Sometimes I don't even have specific ideas for a ref sheet and its details, and just start with a regular fullbody and then continue to expand the canvas and add more details as I work. Like it was with my latest design, cockatiel dragon:

Also, I always have some key elements that I add to the ref sheet! Usually it’s:

- main fullbody image

- chibis with front/back view (+ possibly portrait)

- color palette

- accessories or outfits

- character’s name or brief info made with some fancy font

- random scribbles across the whole reference :D just so I can make it look more fun and fill out the empty space left

- maybe even text inserts explaining various details, like I did with this pitaya dragon:

Keeping all these elements in head, you can imagine how you could arrange them! I usually draw fullbody and chibis first, and then try to fill in all the empty spaces with color palette blocks/accessories and random doodles ^^