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<blockquote data-quote="Chain Lightning" data-source="post: 1081706" data-attributes="member: 6791"><p>Speaking as an artist, I'd like to make some small suggestions.</p><p></p><p>It really helps out the artists if you put down race, height, weight, build, hair color, eye color, comeliness (ugly? handsome?), and stuff like that. </p><p></p><p>If you forget, the artist that sketches your character will fill in the blank for you. When that happens, what you get back may be kinda far from what you imagined. Or sometimes an artist may not even pick your character to draw because it lacks certain basic visual descriptions. They may be afraid of going through all the effort to draw a character only to end up reading some reply from the creator saying something like, "oh....not to be ungrateful or anything but I imagined her with long braids, not short hair."</p><p></p><p>So, don't forget some of the basic stuff too okay? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Sometimes its more important for the artist to know that than the name of the character's foster father.</p><p></p><p>Once I get my new scanner installed, I'll try and sketch one of these characters in this thread.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chain Lightning, post: 1081706, member: 6791"] Speaking as an artist, I'd like to make some small suggestions. It really helps out the artists if you put down race, height, weight, build, hair color, eye color, comeliness (ugly? handsome?), and stuff like that. If you forget, the artist that sketches your character will fill in the blank for you. When that happens, what you get back may be kinda far from what you imagined. Or sometimes an artist may not even pick your character to draw because it lacks certain basic visual descriptions. They may be afraid of going through all the effort to draw a character only to end up reading some reply from the creator saying something like, "oh....not to be ungrateful or anything but I imagined her with long braids, not short hair." So, don't forget some of the basic stuff too okay? :D Sometimes its more important for the artist to know that than the name of the character's foster father. Once I get my new scanner installed, I'll try and sketch one of these characters in this thread. [/QUOTE]
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