I found I have fallen off the wheel when it comes to designing characters. Of course it’s always good to explore different avenues of creativity, mediums, and subjects. But I ache for drawing characters again.
My issue is, I have a hard time finding momentum with constant creating characters, both established OCs and random drawings of people just for the heck of it. I find I overthink about the drawings of the random ones, but at the same time don’t want to kill myself over one offs for a fun illustration idea. Sometimes I’ve created OCs through this method. Sometimes they don’t become anything else.
My question for this is... how to find the momentum? I already know that for me, as someone who draws, can practice anatomy to expand on ideas of poses and moves a character can do. I can also take time to practice parts of the body to understand them and then decide how I want to transfer it to a simpler style. But is there anything else I can do to explore ideas and get some kind of momentum going?
I also have been lacking in drawing my OCs. I’ve fallen away from the story idea, and am not sure if I want to keep moving with the original idea, or even the time period (which is medieval fantasy). I feel this means I have changed from the person who started the original story plot, which means it may be time to change it up. I do want to keep the core personalities of my established characters, since I think the character dynamics works, but the problem that poses for me is making the jump; decide on which path I want. I feel I can’t really draw my OCs until I’ve decided on even a type of world or time period I want them in.
There’s also the issue of not trying to drive this to definitely get published, or seen at a large audience for profit or a career. I am open to posting the story if I feel like it, but that’s not my end goal. I like creating characters and stories and worlds. So what is the end goal of it all? What is my drive for it? I want these characters to live and thrive in something. But I don’t know what to have them live for.
So for the second part... I don’t know what question to ask to even understand how to move forward. I guess I just wanted my thoughts out there, especially knowing that there are more creators following me on this platform than any other (and on them I have more followers; weird stuff).
I could have written this in my journal and left it at that. But I felt like talking about this to an actual person, and to expand on who can see this, to hopefully get some advice or something. Of course, no one is obligated to do so. I would not be off putted if this doesn’t get any responses.
I just felt this was the best place to bring up these thoughts.
