1. How does your character think of their father? What do they hate and love about him? What influence – literal or imagined – did the father have? 2. Their mother? How do they think of her? What do they hate? Love? What influence – literal or imagined – did the mother have? 3. Brothers, sisters? Who do they like? Why? What do they despise about their siblings? 4. What type of discipline was your character subjected to at home? Strict? Lenient? 5. Were they overprotected as a child? Sheltered? 6. Did they feel rejection or affection as a child? 7. What was the economic status of their family? 8. How does your character feel about religion? 9. What about political beliefs? 10. Is your character street-smart, book-smart, intelligent, intellectual, slow-witted? 11. How do they see themselves: as smart, as intelligent, uneducated? 12. How does their education and intelligence – or lack thereof – reflect in their speech pattern, vocabulary, and pronunciations? 13. Did they like school? Teachers? Schoolmates? 14. Were they involved at school? Sports? Clubs? Debate? Were they unconnected? 15. Did they graduate? High-School? College? Do they have a PHD? A GED? 16. What does your character do for a living? How do they see their profession? What do they like about it? Dislike? 17. Did they travel? Where? Why? When? 18. What did they find abroad, and what did they remember? 19. What were your character’s deepest disillusions? In life? What are they now? 20. What were the most deeply impressive political or social, national or international, events that they experienced? 21. What are your character’s manners like? What is their type of hero? Whom do they hate? 22. Who are their friends? Lovers? ‘Type’ or ‘ideal’ partner? 23. What do they want from a partner? What do they think and feel of sex? 24. What social groups and activities does your character attend? What role do they like to play? What role do they actually play, usually? 25. What are their hobbies and interests? 26. What does your character’s home look like? Personal taste? Clothing? Hair? Appearance? 27. How do they relate to their appearance? How do they wear their clothing? Style? Quality? 28. Who is your character’s mate? How do they relate to him or her? How did they make their choice? 29. What is your character’s weaknesses? Hubris? Pride? Controlling? 30. Are they holding on to something in the past? Can he or she forgive? 31. Does your character have children? How do they feel about their parental role? About the children? How do the children relate? 32. How does your character react to stress situations? Defensively? Aggressively? Evasively? 33. Do they drink? Take drugs? What about their health? 34. Does your character feel self-righteous? Revengeful? Contemptuous? 35. Do they always rationalize errors? How do they accept disasters and failures? 36. Do they like to suffer? Like to see other people suffering? 37. How is your character’s imagination? Daydreaming a lot? Worried most of the time? Living in memories? 38. Are they basically negative when facing new things? Suspicious? Hostile? Scared? Enthusiastic? 39. What do they like to ridicule? What do they find stupid? 40. How is their sense of humor? Do they have one? 41. Is your character aware of who they are? Strengths? Weaknesses? Idiosyncrasies? Capable of self-irony? 42. What does your character want most? What do they need really badly, compulsively? What are they willing to do, to sacrifice, to obtain? 43. Does your character have any secrets? If so, are they holding them back? 44. How badly do they want to obtain their life objectives? How do they pursue them? 45. Is your character pragmatic? Think first? Responsible? All action? A visionary? Passionate? Quixotic? 46. Is your character tall? Short? What about size? Weight? Posture? How do they feel about their physical body? 47. Do they want to project an image of a younger, older, more important person? Does they want to be visible or invisible? 48. How are your character’s gestures? Vigorous? Weak? Controlled? Compulsive? Energetic? Sluggish? 49. What about voice? Pitch? Strength? Tempo and rhythm of speech? Pronunciation? Accent? 50. What are the prevailing facial expressions? Sour? Cheerful? Dominating?
In between waiting to get my computer unpacked from moving, I worked on the smutty Shakarian pic some. Why? Because I can’t seem to be happy with an outline style. Also, I love torturing myself.
May never color it, though. Unfortunately, my brain seems to lack color theory.
Alright, so I could afford moving out from my city – the main reason why it’s been 2 months I couldn’t be able to draw anything and the two longest months ever – but sadly I got to that time of when I’m like a week about to get kicked if I don’t bring some income. My savings ran off and job hunting has been incredibly hard, amounting to a sudden psychiatric treatment I now have to afford. Overall, red numbers all around, so here’s the thing:
From September 26th to October 10th, 2017, I’m offering 20% discount in all commission tiers as well as saving 8 or 10 slots for character headshots/portraits only for $8.
That’s it! For the modest price of $8 you will get a headshot of your character in lineart style! Here are some samples:
Check up my links for more info and if you can’t help or just don’t feel like it, any signal boost is incredibly appreciated. There’s also my tip jar below if you also don’t feel like commissioning anything.
As always, thank you so much for your incredible support and encouragement towards my art. Your help means the literal world to me ♥
1: What’s your OC’s biggest insecurity and how would they react if someone pointed it out to them?
2: If your OC wants to buy a firearm, what it might be for?
3: Does your OC behave differently around different people, if so with whom and how?
4: Would your OC want to involve themselves in humanitarian work ? If yes, then for what? If not, then why not?
5: How would your OC generally react to someone being verbally abusive towards them for no apparent reason?
6: Does your OC have a realistic image of their own intelligence?
7: Does your OC have any irrational phobias?
8: How is/was your OC’s relationship with their parents?
9: Does your OC feel a pressure to achieve or are they content and calm with doing what they can at the moment?
10: Does your OC guard their emotions by being tough? If not how would they?
11: How would your OC react to hearing they’re adopted?
12: What is one of the most primary things your OC feels that is missing from their life?
13: What kind of situations does your OC avoid the most?
14: If your OC gets into a fight with their best friend, would they wait for their friend to make up with them, or would they try to make up with their friend?
15: Does your OC consider themselves a good person?
16: Is your OC good at giving others validation of their feelings and making them feel understood?
17: Does your OC suffer from any mental health issues?
18: What kind of intrapersonal values does your OC have? (values about their self, what makes them feel like a valid person)
19: What boosts your OC’s confidence the most?
20: Does your OC hurt others often unintentionally? If yes, how?
21: Does your OC hurt others often intentionally? If yes, how?
22: How does your OC usually show affection? Are they openly romantic or more restricted with their affectionate emotions?
23: Does your OC tend to hide something about their personality/essence when meeting new people? If yes, what?
24: How would your OC react if they got humiliated by someone in a group of people?
25: How would your OC process the grief caused by the death of a loved one?
26: What is the most intense thing your OC has been battling with?
27: Does your OC practise any kind of escapism? If yes, what kind?
28: How would your OC react if a bully stole their lunch money in high school?
29: How does your OC behave on the face of a conflict?