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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?