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My uninteresting OCs

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I’ve made a fair number of OCs over the years. However, I seem more enthusiastic when commissioning or working with OCs of other artists. I’m trying to figure out why that is.

 The most likely reason is that I simply find the OCs of other artist more appealing than my own. Up until like a year or two ago, pretty much all of my OCs were dragons with minor physical differences, aside from two who were lizards. There have been times I’ve tried to design new OCs and then up and forgot about them because I lost interest in them.

 Another possible factor is the story behind each OC. The OCs of mine I enjoy the most are my “big three”: Leon, Parker and Nixie, most likely because I now have a decent and solid storyline behind their existence (also due to the adorable story commissions I got from my buddy Yosh-E-O). For most of my others, however, I just threw together a paragraph origin story and pretty much left it at that.

 How to remedy this situation? For starters, I could redesign some of my repetitive character designs, though the reason I’ve stuck with this style so long is because it’s the body type I’m most familiar with. Body types like the more bulbous long-necked dragons are appealing, but I can’t seem to find a support layer for them that works. I could also just try changing some of the species, which may be a simplified solution, though I do feel kinda weird about doing it, since most of these characters were envisioned as dragons and changing them to something like a squirrel seems odd.

 I could also try to develop their stories a bit more, write some tales of them going on adventures or hijinks. I just need to think of some entertaining ideas.

 Still, I do find more fun to be had with other artists OCs (don’t worry, I don’t post anything with them without consent). What do you think?
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Reizinho
3 years ago
The best way is redesigning everything. I wish I could do that, but I got 16 characters and I can no longer run Oob's Character Maker, which I intended to use to aid redesign. My designs are pretty repetitive as well.
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