20 Character Design Questions
🕸 1. Who’s the oldest character of yours that you still use?
⭐️ 2. Who’s the oldest character of yours, defunct or not?
💡 3. Has creating a character ever made you realize something about yourself?
🦋 4. Any minor characters that have either taken over or branched off into their own stories?
🐲 5. Do you prefer to make human, animal, monster, or _____ characters? Why?
🎨 6. When creating a character, do you come up with the visual concept or the written concept first?
📌 7. Do you have characters that you know you’ll never use, but can’t bear to get rid of/recycle?
💖 8. Is there a character that embodies your good traits, or traits you wish you had?
💔9. Is there a character that embodies your bad traits? Several characters? Which ones and what traits?
♨️ 10. Is there a character that explores your interests or fetishes (orrrr is that just all of you characters)?
✒️ 11. If you have characters that embody certain traits of yours—good or bad—has writing them changed how you view those traits? Has it affected you in any way?
💭 12. Do you fantasize about being any of your characters, or are you more detached?
🎵 13. Do you create playlists for your characters?
🎇 14. When writing for specific characters, is there anything you have to do to get into the right mindset?
🌻 15. Which character is your guilty pleasure?
🌩 16. Is there a character of yours who’s a real struggle to write/draw? Why do you think that is?
🔑 17. Which character is the easiest to draw/write?
💎 18. Is there anything you really wish you could do, character-design-wise, that you feel is outside your current skillset? A concept that you wish you could pull off but are uncertain about?
🏆 19. What’s more important to you: visual design, unique personality, a trendy character aesthetic, etc? If you’re not sure, then what’s the first thing you usually nail down in a character?
🎬 20. Do you ever plan to do anything (comic, animation, etc) with your characters? Or are you just happy to have them?
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