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17 years ago
There's something that has been the same for me, concerning drawing, for as long as I can remember: whatever I draw has a personality, a story. As a child a used to draw several very similar pictures showing the course a story would take in my head.
Which is why it seems only natural for me to develop a whole bunch of characters of the furry kind as well (not that my childhood characters weren't occasionally furry, but no one wants to see that XD). Some of them might only apper on one drawing, but they have a name and I have a pretty good idea of what they're like.
Is that weird? I feel like I'm creating them so quickly that many don't get the attention (picture-wise) they deserve (measured by the thought invested in them). By the time a picture is done, I'm on to the next character. And maybe I just wanted to draw that one species once and be done with.
I'm not talking about that kind of character, that holds about the same position as a fursona (though many won't see the difference I'm sure); see, there's Jay, who's basically me (in a way), and then there're Bold and the others, whom I "just" draw.
Just going through my gallery here on FA I came up with 18 characters (that have a name and/or show up more than once), and that's not counting Jay OR any of the many, MANY characters that I have written about but never drawn.
I admit that as personalities go, many of them aren't that "deep", more like spontaneous ideas that never got developed.
So, yeah. Your thoughts on the matter?
In case you're an artist/writer: do you have more than one character? If yes, how many?
Which is why it seems only natural for me to develop a whole bunch of characters of the furry kind as well (not that my childhood characters weren't occasionally furry, but no one wants to see that XD). Some of them might only apper on one drawing, but they have a name and I have a pretty good idea of what they're like.
Is that weird? I feel like I'm creating them so quickly that many don't get the attention (picture-wise) they deserve (measured by the thought invested in them). By the time a picture is done, I'm on to the next character. And maybe I just wanted to draw that one species once and be done with.
I'm not talking about that kind of character, that holds about the same position as a fursona (though many won't see the difference I'm sure); see, there's Jay, who's basically me (in a way), and then there're Bold and the others, whom I "just" draw.
Just going through my gallery here on FA I came up with 18 characters (that have a name and/or show up more than once), and that's not counting Jay OR any of the many, MANY characters that I have written about but never drawn.
I admit that as personalities go, many of them aren't that "deep", more like spontaneous ideas that never got developed.
So, yeah. Your thoughts on the matter?
In case you're an artist/writer: do you have more than one character? If yes, how many?
And I agree with you that characters don't have the same position as a fursona...
A fursona is who you are, who you would want to turn into if you had the chance to... a character you just developed for fun is something different.
So I think you shouldn't be concerned about not paying them enough attention... maybe you'll draw a character again when you feel like it... or it'll just be one picture where he shows up... it doesn't matter
You should just be concerned when you don't pay enough attention to your fursona :3
*nods* I was recently asked wether I were a fox (and not for the first time)... so that should get me thinking, right? XD
//I think it would get boring to just draw your fursona again and again.//
Indeed, but then I would just draw some other species, it would not require me to fill that drawing with actual personality... though it might just be that I like giving things names. (And I mean *things* here...)
//the most important thing is to pay more attentions to ones fursona then to thinking that every charecter needs tons and tons of pics//
Right again. Guess when one's attention goes more towards some other character than the actual fursona, one might fall into an identity crisis. *laughs*
I don't think you need to work overly hard building up each character you draw even nearly to the same degree that you do your fursona. If you only want to draw someone once, then only draw them once! Your art should be about expanding your skills and enjoying yourself. So do what you want, and we'll just keep enjoying whatever you send our ways. :p :)
Exactly! Glad someone understands that. XD
//Your art should be about expanding your skills and enjoying yourself.//
Now here's something I'd drink to (if I weren't a teetotaler). :)
Well, I guess it's easier to come up with in comedy, because the traits can be exagerrated. In fact, more often than not they are exagerrated, because it's funnier. But occassionally I write serious stories, and in that it's pretty much the same, with the characters gaining depth from how they do or would interact with others.
The problem with that is that often the characters seem very cliche, and they can usually be summed up as the "Clever one" or "Funny one" or whatever. I still have some main characters with no personality whatsoever.
But once you start developing a character, no matter in what context, it might "force" you to come up with more characters; like Trey needed a boss, Samuel needed a sub, so he got Jake.
And a character might start out "flat", one-dimansional, but if you keep drawing him/writing about him, he will probably gain depth, almost inevitably. The more I draw Bold, the more facets of his personality I discover, espcially when I draw him interacting with others (which would bring us back to comics).