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Something has got me pondering and I'm curious to find out...
Why do we create characters?
Do you guys create them for a particular reason (perhaps, say, a fandom?) Does something inspire you and give you an idea to create a character? Or perhaps they were a result of a half-minded doodle on a napkin.
Please share your thoughts with me. I want to know why you create the guys you have created.
My own reasons:
Why do we create characters?
Do you guys create them for a particular reason (perhaps, say, a fandom?) Does something inspire you and give you an idea to create a character? Or perhaps they were a result of a half-minded doodle on a napkin.
Please share your thoughts with me. I want to know why you create the guys you have created.
My own reasons:
- A majority of my characters (Laura, Poison, Clarisse, Stitches, Reptilia, even Emily) started out as fandom characters but have since then more or less branched off on their own premises.
- Jekyll and Hyde already exist, as an example of the personified alter ego. I simply wanted to make my own version, since it's one of my favourite stories.
- Wesley was created because I wanted to give the PTPPEs a mode of transportation. Never thought I'd love him as much as I do now.
- I have another collection of characters that I've had and have evolved since school. I've never properly shared them before but I'll give you an insight. Basically, for my GSCE Media project at school, I chose to create a comic book with a set of characters. I created a narcissistic, money-grubbing skeleton; a dopey walking pincushion with a giant pin through his head and a Barry White-esque toad doctor. How I got full marks for them, I will never know.
I loved the universe so much, I created a whole bunch more and the premise and developed and changed since. Laura has also become a main fixture in this world as well, as the skeleton's on-off girlfriend. Personal favourites include a surly punk teen with the biggest hairdo ever; the skeleton's silver fox witch doctor dad; his grumpy foe who lives with him, who has been imprisoned in a witch doctor's mask (and weirdly has the hots for Laura); a tall Frankensteinian goth woman who says little to nothing and a strange demonic albino Tazmanian Devil-like creature who, I kid you not, came from a dream about a go-karting video game. Phew. - As for my films…well, my characters tend to take on a life of their own once I start animating them.
I think I'm done with dA.
I've tried to get to grips with the new dA but I just don't enjoy being on here anymore. The format is too corperate, rather un-user friendly for mobile, a lot of my best friends who are also hardly/never on here anymore I can contact elsewhere and...well, it's just not the dA I used to enjoy visiting. And just as I was getting back into posting stuff on here too. I'm not deactivating my account as I have too many fond memories on here. So instead, I'm just going to keep it as an archive to revisit from time to time. So what I'm going to say is don't expect any new stuff from me on here anymore. I maybe on every now and then to check messages and give myself a nostalgia boost but for now, it's with an angry heavy heart that I am kinda saying goodbye to dA. The old dA, this new dA can shove it.
Dark Crystal ASK Game (SPOILERS)
Something fun I found floating around - and to clear out my Sta.sh... (and why does it always automatically link to Sta sh every time I type it?!) 1. Who is your favourite FEMALE Gelfling? Brea and Deet. Brea is my spirit animal and Deet is a little cinnamon bun who must be protected at all costs. :love: 2. Who is your favourite MALE Gelfling? Gurjin. What a chill dude. And even though he's not a Gelfling, I need to mention Hup as there's no Podling questions in this questionnaire and he's such a precious boy! :love: He's definitely an honorary Gelfling. 3. Who is your favourite Skeksis? On the whole, I really enjoy all of the Skeksis as characters. But of course, my favourite is that lecherous old priest, SkekZok. ;) Other favourites are SkekGra, SkekSil and SkekMal. 4. Who is your favourite Mystic? UrGoh and UrVa. Again, I love the Mystics on the whole but these two are strongest in my brain at present... and they're both freaking awesome! 5. Aughra or
Well, shit balls.
I wasn't going to rant about the new dA but the last few days using it has been really irritating me more than it should. First, it took me a few days to realise that comments/replies etc and new art/journals/ statuses etc are NOT in the same notification page anymore - they are in two separate places now! For a while, I thought everyone had vanished until I went on my laptop and had a proper explore. More unnecessary work and navigation for us! Next, I've just found out that Sta.sh Writer is no longer available unless you want to edit existing stuff... I've got so many stories and story notes stored in Sta.sh! I think I'm going to remove and relocate everything in there to a safer place just in case... Then it took me about five minutes to try and find out how to make a Status update or a Journal so I can let off my new anger with the site! Grr... the more I use the new dA, the less I like it. There are too many bells and whistles and not much substance. Yes, the old one
Fandom Meme - Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
WARNING! CONTAINS SPOILERS
Hey guys! I'm not dead. I've just been a busy little bee. My art is really starting to take off at the moment so I've been putting a lot of my time and creative juices in there. BUT having said that, I've also been... very occupied by something else. And that is The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
When I started watching it in September; I was expecting, at the most, to simply enjoy and appreciate the series and get on with life. What I wasn't expecting was to become so obsessed with the show to the point where I have made myself, Laura, Poison and Wes into Gelfling, Jekyll and Hyde into a Mystic/Skeksis respectiv
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Most of the time they start as a loose concept that just kinda pops in there, and over time they evolve as people and branch off and such. Of course for 'sonas it's totally a case of 'I wanna play too!' and just jumping in. The concepts can come from anywhere. Kelly's first draft was the result of seeing an actual possum strolling on my university campus after dark, Roxie came to be from watching Chicago and GMD too many times in quick succession, and Emanuel Sykes came from a anthropomorphic raven I saw in a dream. Sometimes I'll just randomly draw a design and it'll stick in my head just right enough that I'll make it into a character. It's pretty neat really. Characters can come from anywhere. 