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Dnd classes…. but as frogs!! 

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A little sketch of my MC, Lila, done between drafting days.

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HOW TO GIVE PERSONALITY TO A CHARACTER

Giving personality to a character is an essential part of character development in storytelling, whether you're writing a novel, screenplay, or creating a character for a role-playing game. Here are some steps and considerations to help you give personality to your character:

Understand Their Backstory:

Start by creating a detailed backstory for your character. Where were they born? What were their childhood experiences like? What significant events have shaped their life? Understanding their past can help you determine their motivations, fears, and desires.

2. Define Their Goals and Motivations:

Characters often become more interesting when they have clear goals and motivations. What does your character want? It could be something tangible like a job or a romantic relationship, or it could be an abstract desire like happiness or freedom.

3. Determine Their Strengths and Weaknesses:

No one is perfect, and characters should reflect this. Identify your character's strengths and weaknesses. This can include physical abilities, intellectual skills, and personality traits. Flaws can make characters relatable and three-dimensional.

4. Consider Their Personality Traits:

Think about your character's personality traits. Are they introverted or extroverted? Shy or outgoing? Kind or selfish? Create a list of traits that describe their character. You can use personality frameworks like the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or the Big Five Personality Traits as a starting point.

5. Give Them Quirks and Habits:

Quirks and habits can make a character memorable. Do they have a specific way of speaking, a unique fashion style, or an unusual hobby? These details can help bring your character to life.

6. Explore Their Relationships:

Characters don't exist in isolation. Consider how your character interacts with others. What are their relationships like with family, friends, and enemies? These relationships can reveal a lot about their personality.

7. Show, Don't Tell:

Instead of explicitly telling the audience about your character's personality, show it through their actions, dialogue, and decisions. Let the reader or viewer infer their traits based on their behavior.

8. Create Internal Conflict:

Characters with internal conflicts are often more engaging. What inner struggles does your character face? These can be related to their goals, values, or past experiences.

9. Use Character Arcs:

Consider how your character will change or grow throughout the story. Character development is often about how a character evolves in response to the events and challenges they face.

10. Seek Inspiration:

Draw inspiration from real people, other fictional characters, or even historical figures. Study how people with similar traits and backgrounds behave to inform your character's actions and reactions.

11. Write Dialogue and Inner Monologues:

Writing dialogue and inner monologues from your character's perspective can help you get inside their head and understand their thought processes and emotions.

12. Consider the Setting:

The setting of your story can influence your character's personality. For example, a character who grows up in a war-torn environment may have a different personality than one raised in a peaceful, affluent society.

13. Revise and Refine:

Don't be afraid to revise and refine your character as you write and develop your story. Characters can evolve and change as the narrative unfolds.

Remember that well-developed characters are dynamic and multi-faceted. They should feel like real people with strengths, weaknesses, and complexities. As you write and develop your character, put yourself in their shoes and think about how they would react to various situations. This will help you create a compelling and believable personality for your character.

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unfortunately the awful little freak everyone hates has saved the world so now we all have to try to be nice

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hey, don't cry. one cup heavy whipping cream, two tablespoons granulated sugar, three tablespoons cocoa powder and whisk until stiff peaks form for three ingredient chocolate mousse, okay?

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HAPPY JONMARTIN DAY EVERYONE

#the magnus archives #tma #relistening to TMA JUST IN TIME #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jon sims

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snoopy's brother, spike

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For some reason this scene really scratches something in my artistic brain and I feel the need to draw it every time.

#tma fanart #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #jon archivist #jon sims #episode 102

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Art by Mengxuan Li

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Wolfwalkers (2020) dir. Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart

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Shut up m'dudes, it's a national holiday

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Damn, I love him so much.

#pokemon #larry #spongebob #animatic #wow look at this! #I love him

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POV you’ve been invited to a very strange house party (You’re also a virgin)

#wwdits #what we do in the shadows #wow look at this #amazing!

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YOU KNOW WHAT DAY IT IS

#dragons #dragon #wow look at this!

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The final battle in Pokemon Scarlet is weirdly very good. I had to paint it. Boy howdy Koraidon is a real complex design but I wanted to do it right. I learned a whole ton on this one, took around 67 hours of paint time. That does not include despair time.

#pokemon #koraidon #illustration #wow look at this! #amazing!

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Wagner Moura as Big Bad Wolf in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)

#puss in boots: the last wish #puss in boots 2 #wow look at this! #animation

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RISE STUDIEEES

Thought I’d post these, the third one is just kind of a tangent, but why not share?

I might make another part on the show’s mouths but that’s pretty basic stuff, idk what I’d write. So it’s a strong maybe…

#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt #wow look at this! #art tips #very helpful!