Character Design Database

Character Design Database A place where you can browse through different character designs for inspiration! No AI or NFTs. All posts will be sourced where possible. Message for take down requests. Under construction. May go through periods of inactivity.

[characterdesigndatabase]

Hello and welcome to Character Design Database! This is a place where I like to curate character designs and sort them based on their features!

As of right now, this is a somewhat experimental side blog. I don't quite know how committed I'm going to be to it.

General info below the cut!

Why did you make this?

I really like to design characters! When I get a new character idea, I like to go online to see if anyone else has done the idea before to get inspired and to also make sure I don't make something too similar. More often than not though, I'll Google something and get met with boring stock images or dumb AI stuff. I wanted there to be a place specifically dedicated to showcasing designs and making the research process relatively easier.

The structure is partially inspired by art boorus. I always really liked the specific tagging system. I would make one, but I'm not very savvy when it comes to self-hosting and stuff, so I went with tumblr instead.

What can I expect here?

Primarily reblogs of original and/or fan characters. However, I'll sometimes post characters from existing properties.

No imagery of racism, bigotry, etc., even if it's for reference material.

Posts will be roughly PG-13, within the interest of keeping it as a widely accessible resource. Open to changing this in the future, though.

No artificial intelligence slop or anything techbro adjacent.

All posts will be sourced (whether it be manually or through reblog chains).

Lots of tags, in the interest of making things easier to sort.

Something is tagged incorrectly!

Let me know! I'll add or subtract tags if I feel they're appropriate.

Who is this ran by?

@plokster :o)

More to come

[kyleculpart]

[rufustrashheap]

go random xarid doodles (xarids are an open species by @obscure-entity, def recommend checking them out)

[graskip]

magic critter

[hannecke]

Dug up some old character designs from college. Yikes! I've been breaking down some of the designs and edits for a class I'm putting together. Here are some design edit samples.

[toreodere-deactivated20260204]

very tired at the moment but wanted to doodle this silly lil kobold that's been in our head for awhile before we go for a snooooze!

[fattcactus]

Random moon cat design

[baranarts]

big bunny goddess !!!

[joyjoy-ahoy]

Drawings of my toontown character

[onebadnoodle]

reindeer design cause tis the season

[yoobec]

The Chinese Luna Moth 🦋(oc)

her name is Luna btw

[planefood]

adoptable I'm selling on my toyhouse! come check it out! (I'm Trosper on there)

[tropicalsteppe]

honeycrisp

[nelnal]

[knebulanight]

Came back around to re-designing my giraffe girl, Magda. She's a timid librarian/secretary and a huge dork by day, but at night she puts on a punk-goth persona that draws out a bolder and wilder side that lets loose her bottled up emotions and inclinations.

[cubesona]

Redesigns the two clown girls I designed a couple years ago. Left is new, Right is old.

I'm still trying to think of names for them. Thinking of either Vica (VISE-uh) and Versa. Or to incorporate a sun and moon theme, Solice and Versaluna. I dunno!

[infezmite]

🧊