The Oc Awareness Club

DG-sama · Moderator Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 2294

[quote]I've noticed that a lot of people make up OCs but give them no background plot or personality traits,[/quote]

Though that could also be from someone who dislikes typing :/

I've made probably over a hundred OCs at least in my life and they all have incredibly complex backstories that are often interwoven with each other, (and pretty much all of them come from three specific 'worlds'). But when the time comes to type it out.. I just look at the keyboard and think... 'It'll take me forever to type that out," and end up just typing out a sone to three lines like "This is XXX he's a happy lil' kid." Sometimes though I'll go crazy and type out a whole mini-story that ends up several paragraphs lon, like in my jester brothers picture afrom a few weeks ago. But that is a very very rare occurance.

But yeah DG doesn't like to type. Talk to me in real life I can go on for hours about my boys. But there is a difference. I love to talk (maybe I should look into one of those programs that type while you talk to it.. but I have a bad boston/new england accent so it might not work out all that great XD )
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Pabbit_da_Rabbit · Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:34 pm Post subject:

Yes, I don't like to type also. Sooo...when peole see my OC, all they see is a name because I don't feel like typing so much. XP

Ah, Lindsay, if only I were as determined as you to write it all out and keep my OCs going.
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DG-sama · Moderator Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 2294

[quote="Animemaster2334 (Lindsay)"] And gosh DG, hundreds of OCs you say? O_o
I avoid making too many new OCs nowadays because I want to be able to focus on the main five I have (yes, it's not just Raos, Adrian and Eclipse anymore).
I may create a new one soon for comic relief. A comedy series of some kind wouldn't be hard with my characters at all. Just throw them all in the same room and watch the fireworks fly >:3
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Well just look at my DA gallery XD, including my scraps I've got a grand total of 740 pictures Surprised

and out of a 100 sketchbook I maybe only post 15-20 finished works from it at most, which means, if I count all the other pictures from the last three years or so I probably have another 300 half colored ones, around 450 that are only inked (or half inked) and maybe around a thousand that never made it past the sketch stage (I'm not kidding either I go through a hundred page sketchbook in couple weeks most of the time, except for like the past two months I've been busy so I don't draw quite as much as I used to). Many of my characters never make it to the net XD cause unless I really REALLY like it, I never scan my doodles, sketches, and line arts.

Every few months or so I tend to make a new character set of maybe a dozen characters or so that interact with each other, usually only finishing the design for 3-5 of them, usually the 'main' characters. I do usually however write down character files for them all and occasional mini stories to set up and define personality. I however rarely type any of these out and I have a bad habit of losing my notebooks ._.

And you should make a comedy relief character! Surprised

Those are my favorites XD I love wierdos :3
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Touzoku-joou · Oldbie Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 2399 Location: interweb

I sometimes wish people would draw my characters (though the fangirling may be a bit too much... Oo; ), just simply so I could see what they look like in other people's styles. :x I'd make a request in the requests forums, but then I'd feel like a dirty attention whore. 8D

I think all of my characters are comedic in some way or another. Aside from the fact that they're intentionally cliche (elementals? "last of their kind"? lolz), I tried not to make anyone too serious. And if they [i]are[/i] a serious/angsty character (such as Gatha), I pick on them and make embarassing stuff happen to them.
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Stratadrake · Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 9:43 am Post subject:

[quote]OCs [b]are[/b] ignored and that's not fair![/quote]
Ooh I already know how Fallen would respond to this [img]http://forum.fanart-central.net/html/emoticons/theteach.gif[/img]

If you're mad because the general OC section is sorted in such an undervalued heading as "Miscellaneous", well, [i]that's[/i] a matter of organization, aka quality/quantity issue. Many of the pictures in the general OC section simply cannot be easily sorted under the other headings we have in the system. They're not series-based fanchars, they're not anime style, they don't qualify as Fantasy and they're sure as hell not Furries. So where else can they go?

On the other hand, if you're mad that quality OC's don't get the comments, consider that [b]we have thousands upon THOUSANDS of OC artwork here on FAC[/b] (possibly 10% of all FAC content), [b]and good OC's get lost in the mess of crap that is poorly-drawn and Mary-Sue OC's.[/b] A lot of artists simply don't take time to think their characters through, and even some of the ones that do, don't take time to bless everyone else with the same info. A lot of artists effectively post a picture of their OC and walk off, and as a semingly universal truth, artists (in general) can churn out more crap than gold given a certain amount of time and effort.

So if you want quality thought-out OC's to get more exposure and comments, by all means go create a "Featured OC's" club. :)

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I wonder what would happen if I were to suddenly draw one of my characters with his arms around Kagome or some other anime character and call him an Inu OC. I wonder just how many comments I'd get then....[/quote]
For laughs, you mean? That would be a sight to see. Laughing

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