#originalcharacter

[hr-bananabird]

Borzoi siblings. Thelios the older brother & Timpani the younger sister.

[hydrabb]

One night one more time

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[villiedoom]

"The Black Master, who wanders between realms, neither alive nor fully gone. The shattered heart of an inquiring mind, on the altar of sacrifice, infinite potential and infinite loss, in the unending cycle of creation, destruction, and rebirth. Where blood flows and darkness reigns, his fire burns - not to devour, but to guide"

Black Master in his world where fire and darkness are united, singing with their merging flows ~

A scene of raging fire can look like a triumph of chaos and destruction, but I wanted it to rather feel peacefully dancing, being both free and in control.

Personal art of my original character.

[dansyron]

"legend speaks of a weapon buried deep within the Abyss: a sword of the gods, able to tame the horrors of the maze. The dead corpses of previous summoned blades litter the landscape as markers of the fallen mazeknights. The weapon is eternal, and in the right hands may find the end of the infinte Labyrinth, but at a cost. The knight of Omega must forfeit their soul to the Abyss in exchange for its power, and thus its wielder will return one day to the Abyss, without fail. it is their inescapable fate." Some more proper production artwork for my personal project Abysm. The giant sword has been in quite a few pictures but never really displayed properly, nor explained. The full lore is on my patreon. CSP ______________________________________________ Follow Me on Twitter | Furaffinity | Patreon | Tumblr | NewGrounds | IG

[rockandroar]

This kicks off Emma Kitteridge’s turn for new concept art! 🖤 Emma fronts her band, Scream At The Moon. The band’s about to hit the road after they win the chance to play the up-and-coming stage at the story’s equivalent of Warped Tour. It’ll be a summer that Emma will never forget, one that will bring her face-to-face with her biggest fears. Stay tuned 🎶 for upcoming posts with more details on her story! 

[laurielisboa-art]

Chanel and Crocodile🌹🐊

[partleem]

Secret Santa gift for another artist! Fun lil alien creature with a lot of texture experimentation. Love doing art / illustrations that let me lean a lot into one theme. Sketch and stuff coming soon!

Id: A citrus colored alien(patoo) with corded headphones talking to someone. A neon sign of a foreign phrase glows brightly over a messy desk, casting the scene in a neon blue light.

[ahogettena]

messing w their designs again + bonus human ska

[ouicakearts]

trade art

[galacticproblems]

Nutcracker Phoebe for Christmas!🎄I've wanted to draw her with peppermint candy hair for a while, finally did it.

[critterly]

too many of her

[hr-bananabird]

First time iPad doodles.

[sunrize-sketches]

wof sketches (jambu, luna and sundew)

[hydrabb]

evil ritual.

[imbecominggayer]

How To Write Character Flaws

One of the most important aspects when writing a character are flaws since flaws increase reader immersion, reader investment, and the overall compelling energy of a story.

Flaws are necessary in creating character arcs where either these initial problems are improved or exacerbated.

Despite the fact that flaws are important, writers can struggle with how to seemlessly incorperate flaws within their characters in an interesting and natural way without just feeling like they're throwing bad traits in randomly.

Here we go!

A) All Character Traits Are Both Flaws And Strengths

Flaws are often dark reflections of the positive qualities identified in an individual.

If your lover is a strong and determined person then you are also likely dating someone who is stubborn.

If your friend is emotional and caring then they're also overly sensitive.

This is due to the fact that flaws are really just character strengths taken to their logical extreme. As the saying goes "the dose makes the poison". An excessive amount of carelessness, curiousity, love, emotion, confidence, and every single virtue inevitably results in personality defects.

You most likely have your character's strengths somewhat laid out whether these strengths be open-mindedness, kindness, determined, and anything else.

Taking these strengths to their logical extreme, you will often find flaws such as naivety, savior complex, stubborness, and other such flaws.

B) Whether Something Is A Strength Or A Flaw Depends On Context

Character A is trusting and Character B is distrusting.

Let's put them in the situation of meeting someone in order to illustrate how both character's defining traits could be their downfall depending on who this character is.

If this "someone" is a helpful individual, then Character B's flaw of distrust create unnecessary discorse within the group and could drive away this positive influence.

If this "someone" is a manipulative someone, then Character A's trusting nature harms the group as it allows someone harmful to enter.

Whether or not a character's actions are perceived as beneficial or harmful depends on if the result is good or bad for the character's goal.

This means that when you are presented with a character who seemingly has no flaws, what you can do is create situations where these good actions result in bad results.

An open-minded character might accidentally walk face first into a cult because they were too accepting of the weird activities

A kind character might cause their allies to become overly dependent on the individual's generosity

A determined character might be so obsessed with succeeding at this specific task that they fail to see the bigger picture and the more effective solution

[streetdevil96]

"BONI" character. stupid prankster ghost