#oc-tober prompts

[icannotreadcursive]

I couldn't find any OC-tober prompt lists for this year that worked well for writers as well as visual artists, so I've made one specifically meant for both!

If you use this list, please tag me here @icannotreadcursive, I'd love to see your writing and art!

Respond to as many prompts as you want or as interest you, don't worry about missing or skipping any. Remember, this is supposed to be fun.

Plain text list below the cut:

Write or draw your OC...

1) Going about an average day 2) Getting ready for a formal event 3) In a cherished memory 4) Waking up from a nightmare 5) Trying out a different gender presentation 6) Interacting with a child in their life 7) With a pet 8) Cooking, or at least trying to 9) Eating their favorite food 10) In a different time period 11) In a different story world or setting 12) With a parent or mentor 13) Having some rotten luck 14) Encountering a wild animal 15) With their partner, crush, or best friend 16) Expressing or exploring their spirituality 17) Doing autumnal chores 18) In school or otherwise being taught 19) Exploring their relationship with their body 20) Doing something stupid 21) Exploring an unfamiliar subculture 22) Having a difficult conversation 23) Enjoying a nice drink 24) Being cared for by someone they love 25) Encountering a ghost 26) Writing a letter 27) Meeting someone important to them for the first time 28) Taking some time to rest 29) Visiting a graveyard 30) Falling asleep 31) Dressed up for Halloween!

[apromptingwewillgo]

OC-TOBER PROMPTS 2024

It's that time of year again folks!

You do not need to tag me! As this is a prompts blog, I like to keep it focused on prompts, so I will not be reblogging things I'm tagged in!

Voyage

Break

Guard(ian)

Frost

Secret

Veil

Sea

Charm

Dirge

Pulse

Fragment

Hide

Forget

Hollow

City

Vine

Rite

Labyrinth

Breeze

Cold

Wander

Treasure

Riddle

Bridge

Glimpse

Sun

Found

Isolate

Mirror

Decay

Wish

plus some bonus prompts to swap out, just in case:

Puzzle, Lament, Spark, Specter, Harmony

[katiethedane12]

Decided to make my own

Yes, it is late, but who cares. It is open to anyone who wants to use it as well! If you do, please tag me so I can see! It would be awesome to look at anyone's art who used it.

[chalkrub]

dinosaur in a lab coat - would you trust her with operating the centrifuge

[stormyth-art]

I wanted to make my own prompt list for OC-tober to use for a video and thought I'd share the list if anyone else wants to do it! :D

[thepromptfoundry]

It's a double feature this October here at the Prompt Foundry with both OC-tober and Prompts That Go Bump In The Night.

For OC-tober, let's celebrate the blorbos from our brains! Write about, draw, or otherwise share and have fun with original characters of your own creation!

Feel free to combine different days' prompts with each other, or combine them with other events, like Bump In The Night or events from other communities! You can even check out last year's OC-tober to see if you might prefer some of those prompts.

If you use this list, please tag me here @thepromptfoundry, I’d love to see your writing and art and learn about your characters!

Respond to as many prompts as you want or as interest you, don’t worry about missing or skipping any. Remember, this is supposed to be fun!

If you have any questions or musings, check our FAQ, and if you don't find your answer, shoot me an ask.

Plain text list below the cut:

1 Getting up in the morning 2 Going out on the town 3 With their partner(s) in life, crime, whatever 4 In their youth 5 Learning something new 6 Alone with their thoughts 7 Alone with their body 8 In a moment of triumph 9 Struggling with something 10 From the perspective of someone who loves them 11 From the perspective of someone who hates them 12 Getting dressed up fancy 13 Spending time with family 14 Waking up from a nightmare 15 Giving comfort to another 16 Exploring nature 17 Interacting with an animal 18 Saying goodbye to someone 19 Interacting with a child in their life 20 Presenting as a different gender 21 Enjoying a nice drink 22 Taking a well-earned break 23 Reading by candle light 24 Reflecting on their past 25 Mending fences 26 In a different time period than usual 27 In a different genre than usual 28 Being silly 29 Sharing a secret 30 Cooking up treats 31 Celebrating Halloween!

[milkymarco7]

Made my own OC-tober prompt list this year since I didn't really like any of the ones I saw, but yeah! Feel free to use it and tag me ^^

[brie-draws]

New OC-tober prompt list for this year!~ Made it for myself but feel free to use : DD!! [And tag me in :39!!]

Below is the text version!

1. Newest OC + Oldest OC 2. Favorite OC 3. OC who needs more art  4.  OC with an intricate design 5.  OC who likes magazines (Bonus: what type) 6.  OC who enjoys cooking 7.  OC who’d love to get iseaki’d 8.  Vampire OC/ OC as a vampire 9.  OC in lolita fashion 10.  OC who scares easily 11. OCs who are related 12.  OC who plays an instrument / OC who loves music 13. OC who’s most likely to get lost in the woods 14. 2 OCs in a style swap 15. OC who likes dolls 16. OC who plays MMOs / would play an MMO (Bonus: Their Avatar) 17. Angel + Devil OC(s)/Theme 18. OCs who don’t get along 19. OC who loves idols 20. OC pairing 21. OC in fall clothes 22. OC who’d be the best protag of a horror game/movie 23. Medical/Mad scientist theme 24. OC x Flowers 25. OC who’s a youtuber/OC as a youtuber 26. Ghost/Undead OC or Theme 27. OC who’s a streamer/OC as a streamer 28. OC who’d explore an abandoned house 29. OC who spends a lot of time on forums/online 30. Trick r’ Treating 31. Halloween

[hazza2404]

Day 1 - Perspective

[bolest-kosti]

Day 8: Tease (ft. Roz & Benny).

Even mentioning the cowlick is like wrangling a bull by the horns.

[puncake-paradice]

INTRODUCING... OC - TOBER

(The idea came to me late at night and I couldn't stop giggling at the name pun.. and I still am.)

My bestie @ruvikkin-art and I decided to make our very own october art challenge for the people that can't stop making OCs or have way too many of them!

This challenge is all about YOU and your characters!

There are no rules except one: you need to draw your own characters.

These characters can either be already existing OCs or you can make up entirely new ones for the themes! You have complete freedom of how to tackle the themes and anything is allowed from drawing an astronaut for the "Space Theme" or just an OC who's stargazing!

Please do share your amazing art with us and use one of the hashtags #oc-tober or #oc tober !!

To make it easier you can also tag any of us so we can reblog your art!

[jayfitzmaurice]

"Sipping a drink of choice and judging someone"

As Jaheira knows, Thirkuir doesn't imbibe, but it's easier to blend in and judge people if they think you are.

[chalkscrub]

chalkrub stuns in new oc-tober prompts

it's a text-heavy update...i love rambling

day 11: symbolism/themes/visual metaphor i.e my favourite things in the world - eng lit nerds make some noise!!!!!

goin back to day 11 with my favourite thing in the world: an unfinished sketchy concept. and also SYMBOLISM and themes and metaphor…and also dark green

so mika and heidi's story is haunted by one time they happened upon a drowned fox and pheasant in a disused canal, something which came at a weird time in their lives and which heidi made weirder by making cryptic suggestions about the whole thing, especially playing on mika’s (former) religious beliefs about spirit connections. Over time, it’s infected mika with budding paranoia in the form of nightmares, hallucinations and latent aquaphobia, all of which she begins seeing as premonitory

shan’t overexplain the symbolism even though my brain wants me to, but this was all inspired by seeing literally the exact same thing on a walk with my great aunt when I was like 6 or 7. the canal water was all covered in algae/pondweed so i’m guessing the fox chased the pheasant, they both mistook the canal for grass, then fell in and drowned together. even as a little kid I was like wrow this is so poignant and tragic and heavy with the potential for on-the-nose symbolism….. or alternatively it just looked cool as hell and felt kind of rare and special. either way, like 15 years later I was developing a new direction for a couple of initially completely unrelated ocs, i.e mika and heidi, and at some point in their story development, I was like now wait a second….this is just like that one time I saw those animals who chased each other into an early shared fate and drowned together…… and it fit them really well and also made everything click into place for the main story, it was kind of uncanny. Thank you nature for showing me cool things every day, and rip to the fox and pheasant you live in my mind forever and always

day 12: future

BEAS!!! beas i love you beas. initial beasley flavour on the left and future flavour on the right. his whole deal is he wants to start a cult, so he ventures to The Big City to make a name for himself. then he realises imps like him are a dime a dozen in the city and nobody cares about him, so he has to scrape by working a minimum wage job as a cashier in a tiny corner shop. he’s from a comic I (partially) made for uni, idk how his story goes exactly but I guess it probably ends with the typical sappy message of being yourself for yourself and not for fame or fortune or whatever. he gets up to hijincks, feels sad and depressed, and goes through the torment of living with his own mediocrity in a world that demands greatness. imps grow with power, not with age, so at the start of the story, even though he’s an adult, he’s still as small as when he was born/summoned/spawned/whatever. he’s got some shapeshifting prowess, so his future form is more an example of the kinds of feats he can pull off when his powers stabilise, and also his cool badass flaming eyes.

day 14: inspiration.

here's a convoluted block of text explaining the heretic's main inspiration, which isn't very apparent in the design at ALL but nevertheless: they’re kind of inspired by the concept of a closet costume. like how you can throw a bedsheet over yourself and cut out some eyeballs and voila. You’re a ghost. Or put a big furry coat and a mask on and you’re a werewolf now. almost all of their design links back to this in a roundabout way: the fur is meant to look like a rug/coat/furry thing draped over something. I used to have a sheepskin rug when I was a kid and I’d always hide under it and crawl about and pretend to be a monster lmao…this is what i looked like in my head maybe. The normal shoes poking out are the human element – like how halloween costumes will sometimes be mostly themed but the shoes are just practical, or you see shoes poking out beneath one of those two-man horse costumes. The face is meant to look mask-like – the glassy unfocused eyes, the fixed toothy grin, the simple cone shape. The black eyelids are meant to be like those Halloween masks that have eyeholes above/below the eyes, covered with that black fabric to make it less obvious there's eyeholes. And the ears are floppy to be like socks or something; they have those two black lines because they remind me of loose stitching. Also just some animal influences thrown in – possums, goats and bulls…..none of the closet costume stuff is meant to be noticeable or apparent in the design, so why did I put so much thought into it? who know… but this thing is one of my favourite designs I’ve made so maybe it was all worth it

[elfroot-and-laurels-moved]

Seen a few of these prompt lists and I wanted to give it a go myself! Aimed for a range of prompts that will work for both artists and writers, and for all sorts of OCs as well as the Warden, Hawke, and the Inquisitor.

If you use, give me a tag! I'd love to see what you create.

Prompts listed under the cut 💚

Week 1: Origins

1. Family 2. Allegiances 3. Faith 4. Memories 5. Home

Week 2: Legacies

6. Inquisitor 7. Champion 8. Hero 9. Agent 10. Friendship 11. Beloved 12. Youth

Week 3: Travels

13. Fade 14. Sea 15. Palace 16. Blight 17. Mountains 18. Crossroads 19. Deep Roads

Week 4: Endings

20. Epilogue 21. Archdemon 22. Remains 23. Loss 24. Griffon 25. Battle 26. Remembrance

Week 5: Ghosts

27. Well 28. Abyss 29. Ostagar 30. Eluvian 31. Veil

[alionanight]

OC-tober Day 15: Bravest OC

Blixer. Definitely Blixer. You have to be pretty brave to decide to break into the most heavily guarded City, get to the center without being killed, and corrupt the Tree of Purity. He pulled it off despite being drunk, having an injured shoulder, and only a single gun with 6 rounds.

I referenced this pose, there's no way I could do that perspective/foreshortening without a reference (I'm including the sketch with this one because I kinda like how it looked before I added his clothes better)

Still a day behind, I didn't have time to get caught up today. Maybe I will tomorrow (probably not)

[oc-tober2023]

I got too excited so you can have this year's oc-tober art prompts!

IMPORTANT! It has been brought to my attention that this years mistake is me writing the word ritual twice, once on the 2nd and once on the 23rd, so to combat this, please use the first ritual as something the oc does on a daily basis and the second one as an actual ritual, I deeply apologise for any confusion this may cause 😔

Please tag me in your art so I can reblog it without having to rely on tumblr's horrific search engine

Anyway! Please don't overexert yourself and remember to have fun!

Transcript below:

#OC-tober2023

Day 1: "Home" Day 16: Storm

Day 2: Education Day 17: Fun

Day 3: Ritual Day 18: Found family

Day 4: Blood family Day 19: Hobby

Day 5: Choice Day 20: Rebel(lious)

Day 6: Prison Day 21: Poison

Day 7: Hatred Day 22: Charm

Day 8: Saviour Day 23: Ritual

Day 9: Promise Day 24: Unexpected

Day 10: Mercy Day 25: Artificial

Day 11: Birthday Day 26: Weapon

Day 12: Foreigner Day 27: Souvenir

Day 13: Food Day 28: History

Day 14: Mask Day 29: Excuse

Day 15: Flashback Day 30: Halloween

Day 31: Free choice

#OC-tober2023 Rules

Rule 1: Tag me @oc-tober2023

Rule 2: Use the tag #oc-tober2023 and/or #oc-tober

Rule 3: Don't exhaust or overwork yourself

Rule 4: You can skip days and prompts

Rule 5: Get creative! Write, draw, use crafts, do anything you want!

Rule 6: Bend the prompts as much as you like

Rule 7: Share the love with the other artists

Rule 8: Be kind, respectful and properly tag things that need a TW or CW and please keep in mind that I willnot be reblogging NSFW art because children might participate

Rule 9: If you want your art to be featured on an end of the month youtube video use the #oc-tobervideo or message me!

Rule 10: Have fun!