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who was gonna tell me that rowan blanchard was in spy kids 4
GABRIEL JOHN UTTERSON REF SHEET REAL!? Finally after all these years...
Utterson is Literally one of my favorite cc characters so far, so y'all better like him or I WILL just start crying
tips for getting people to like your ocs
*disclaimer: this is based on what’s worked for me, aka an artist that likes to make comics/storyboards. so this advice is directed at people who do that
you can do things like this:
but frankly, I don’t think most people engage with this (at least I personally don’t).
My main piece of advice is: get better at writing.
That might sound harsh, but let me explain what I mean!
What I tend to do is just throw characters into situations with as little handholding as I can. Give enough context that readers can follow along, but don’t feel like they’re being explained to.
what can you learn about the characters through their designs alone? (age, personality, economic status, occupation, etc)
what can you learn about the characters’ relationship though their interactions alone? (are they close? familial? romantic? is there hostility? are they tense/relaxed?)
what are the characters currently doing? what were they doing previously (how long have they been talking)? what are they going to do next? can you convey this without dialogue?
how do they feel about what they are doing? are they content? focused? over/understimulated? would they rather be doing something else?
where are they? does it matter? would establishing a setting in at least one panel clarify the scene? is there anything in the enviroment that could tell some of the story?
what time of day is it? what time of year is it? what is the weather like?
Now, with all this in mind, I'm going to give you another example. I'm going to use completely brand new characters for the sake of the experiment, so you won't have any bias.
Did this get more of an emotional response from you than the first example? Why do you think so? Who are these characters? How do they know each other? What else can you infer about them? What happened? Who is "she"?
Now, you don't have to actually answer all those questions. But think about them! You can tell people a whole lot about your characters without ever showing them a list of their likes and dislikes.
Obviously, comics aren't the only way to get people invested in your original characters! But regardless, easily digestible formats will grab people's attention faster than huge blocks of text, and comics are a lot less work than doing wholeass storyboards.
Now go and share your ocs with the world!!!
I personally believe that even if Sebastian isn’t the same brand of pretty he was in the past, he is still quite stunning
I... I finally did it!! Today, I offer a Haru with bangs! Tomorrow... Who knows? And yes, I used her Royal sprite here!
And here's a couple of Strikers ones!!
I'm so happy with how they came out!!! ^_^
the Slenderverse discord server went a little overboard editing this jpg
4 MINUTES (2024) I EP 5 "How about this. How much do you want? Give me a number."
one of my favorite things about of rings of power, especially season two, is the strength of the bonds between the characters and the diversity of the types of bonds. we’ve got a great mix of familial, romantic, and platonic relationships, plus a sprinkling of intense-unhealthy-obsessive-abusive?-left-up-to-interpretation relationships. all of these relationships are treated as equally important which means so much to me.
it doesn’t really matter who you ship or how you headcanon different relationships because there is so much emotional complexity to explore in this world.
I'm gonna say it now, before I get into what I actually want to say because this fandom can get wildly toxic; but this applies to ships too. (can we please stop fighting over them already?)
Fan creations have long since disregarded canon, and I don't see why the UTMV would be exempt.
I love writing Nightmare's Gang as sympathetic characters who love one another and would die to keep the others safe. I sometimes indulge in reading and writing Dream as a bad brother. Sometimes I do write Nightmare as a bad person.
An old saying of mine that I used to use rather frequently, which came about due to the nature of multiverses (especially with characters like Ink, Error, and their variants) , is that there will always be a multiverse where all your headcanons are canon!
There's not a right or wrong way to see this (or any, really) fandom! That's the beauty of fan works! It's all how you want it to be!
Something I see a lot in the UTMV fandom nowadays is people talking about canon. "Canon Nightmare wouldn't act like that," "Ink is morally gray," that type of stuff.
The issue is that UTMV started out as a community project and will continue to be a community project. Fanon is incredibly important to certain pillars of the fandom. People are allowed to interpret the characters differently!
It's important to recognize the source material and respect it, but you must also respect different creator's stories. This isn't a community based around one big canon source material. It's based around countless comics, animations, characters, and fanfics that have been shared for years now.
People are not just going to abandon ideas they have loved for years because of the canon of the source AU. I LOVEE seeing canon Nightmare stuff, but I love dadmare or any other interpretation just as much!
In the UTMV fandom, canon and fanon literally have to coexist. It's no fun otherwise.
I’m really hoping they don’t re-fuse, it just doesn’t feel right to me
I stg if this is leading up to some kinda refusing.... I will be sad...
Idk idk acceptance of how he is now instead of "fixing" would be more meaningful to me.