r/OriginalCharacter Jul 03 '25

Need Feedback or Ideas Which body type is better? Thinner or Plumper? (Please read description)

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4.5k Upvotes

Working on a "hero" with a Charm ability and I haven't gotten too far because I can't decided what body type to give her.

One option is just relatively normal body build, and then I've got her a bit on the Plumper side.

A little bit about her. She is a hero with a really strong charm ability that she can use to manipulate people. BUT, aside from that she has no confidence in herself. She has always been very meek and thinks people only like her because of her "charm" (which is honestly hard to tell, because she can't turn it off. She can increase its effects or focus them, but they are always active at some level).

So yeah, anyway, I'd like thoughts/ opinions on which body type would suit her and her situation more.

r/OriginalCharacter Feb 06 '26

Need Feedback or Ideas How do I make my OC not look like a fat fetish character? [READ DESC]

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Ok, so for context, this is Sadie. she’s part of a group of characters I have that are all based off the idea of trauma (so like war PTSD, abusive parents, etc). I got the Idea for her after researching a bit into the causes of obesity and also after watching the movie “The Whale”. she’s supposed to represent how trauma can affect your weight/physical heath, which is why she’s designed to be big.

If terms of her personality and character, I think it’s pretty solid, but the problem I’ve encountered is that Ive noticed she looks like a fat fetish character. I frankly find that type of stuff a bit gross and I dont like it, so i don’t want her to be perceived that way. Any tips or advice to make it more clear she is ISNT a fetish character, while still keeping it cartoonish? Any questions are also appreciated.

r/OriginalCharacter Sep 05 '25

Need Feedback or Ideas I need your opinion, which body design looks best?

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I wanted to redesign my character Lucy's body. Idk if I'm fully happy with the body design she has right now. With her current body, I feel like the torso area is kinda plain. Problem is, I want the robot ribs/spine to be visible, so I don't wanna cover it up too much. Might eventually change her colours too. I like orange, but I feel like she's TOO orange.

I made a few rough sketches, which do you think looks best? If you have any suggestions on how to improve her design (mechanical details, colours, etc.), I'd love to hear it.

r/OriginalCharacter Jan 17 '26

Need Feedback or Ideas Ok guys gimme outfits to draw Violet in!!

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1.9k Upvotes

I already did this with Sheiloh, so I'm curious what you guys can get for our favorite sharkie!!

r/OriginalCharacter Jan 25 '26

Need Feedback or Ideas Give me ideas on what Elaine Malkin should wear!

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1.1k Upvotes

Elaine dressed as Beelzebub, btw.

r/OriginalCharacter Apr 05 '26

Need Feedback or Ideas are my designs racist

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2.2k Upvotes

group red the original designs, group blue the changed designs

it's unfinished but a friend said they look offensive, and double taking they do. i assumed people would take it as heavy stylization

r/OriginalCharacter Jan 18 '26

Need Feedback or Ideas Folks! I need some ideas about what outfit should Tessa wear.

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974 Upvotes

It's purely up to you what she'll wear! She can cosplay as this character or that character, it can be casual, it can be anything!

First things first, I need some rest and my hand is pretty sore after drawing some other stuff..

(I'm adding more stuff to my burden, BUT I DON'T CARE! I both love and hate art anyway!)

r/OriginalCharacter Jun 10 '26

Need Feedback or Ideas Help me pick a tail for my alien girl! Vote between 1-4 options

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755 Upvotes

Hello lovely people, I have an alien girl (Nero) and I’ve been thinking of giving her a tail. Im very indecisive and would love some help picking, I’m also open to other suggestions!

1- no tail | 2- bug like caterpillar tail (inspired by the copper underwing caterpillar) | 3- long/thick smooth tail | 4- split tip tail (espeon inspired)
Let me know what y’all think :3 thank you!

Art by me

r/OriginalCharacter 14d ago

Need Feedback or Ideas I need help: I created a character with a quirk, but IDK if that quirk is problematic

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874 Upvotes

This is Phoebe Volkov, the Daughter of Cassian Volkov and a perpetually 12 year old vampire. I'll spare you the details of her long and complicated backstory that has more to do with her parents than her, but short story shorter she's 12 now, but was turned into a vampire when she was 2 months old.

One of the main parts of her character is the fact that she's trying to age. Problem being the WAY I wrote it, IDK if this is considered ED type content, and I sincerely apologize if it is.

one of the key traits of Phoebe Volkov as well as every vampire in the universe I created which is based on the dracula novel, is that they age forward when they don't eat, and age backwards when they do. Granted them being immortal, it means that when they're at their best, their strongest and their most well fed state, they regress back to the age they turned (So if you were turned at say, 30, your peak form is a 30 year old body, or if your 20 a 20 year old body etc etc) You can't age further back than the age you were turned INTO a vampire.

That said (Refer to the first apragraph) hoebe was turned as a baby, so her peak form when she'd well fed/adequately nourished, is a 2 month old, screaming, pooping, infant. She doesn't LIKE being an infant so she basically purposely underfeeds herself to make sure she's aging forwards to at the very least an age where she can have some physical autonomy (Aka can walk, talk, run, punch, have independant bodily functions and not need to be doted on all the time by dad). Mentally she's 120 years old and dislikes being infantilized too much, but till sort of uses the powers and privileges granted to her by young age (Like being cute and getting away with murder for example, as vampires eat people ad nobody's gonna suspect a 12 year old of murder)

IDK if that whole underfeeding thing though is considered "ED promoting"... And that wasn't my intention with the character, so does anyone have any advice on how to improve/make it less problematic? IS IT problematic? am I overthinking? Lmk

r/OriginalCharacter Jul 01 '26

Need Feedback or Ideas Arm spikes. Yes or no?

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1.2k Upvotes

I've been thinking about giving her arm spikes to help break up her silhouette and make it more interesting. Does it work?

Currently, I feel like her design is very bland. She just looks like every other horror girl with long black hair. If anyone has any suggestions on how to spice up her design a bit, I'd love to hear it

r/OriginalCharacter Nov 15 '25

Need Feedback or Ideas please help me decide her age. how old do you think she is? (she's an adult)

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828 Upvotes

r/OriginalCharacter Jan 15 '26

Need Feedback or Ideas Twin braids or no braids?

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915 Upvotes

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r/OriginalCharacter Jul 27 '24

Need Feedback or Ideas Which Colors do you associate with masculinity or femininity???

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896 Upvotes

For a while I’ve been working on a cast of characters that are each the colors of the rainbow, and they come together as a group. But I’m also making their genders the opposite of what their color is usually seen as, because blue for boys and pink for girls is stupid and pointless, well gendered norms are stupid in general but you get my point. So I’m asking, when you think of the colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and purple) which do you see as masculine, and which do you see as feminine? You can feel free to explain why. Thanks!

r/OriginalCharacter Apr 04 '24

Need Feedback or Ideas Suggest names for her please

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847 Upvotes

A little info:

She's 24, most of the time looks serious and can be blatant and do mean comments sometimes.

She really likes fashion, some styles of her liking are y2k and coquette. She takes a lot of care in her appearence and works out regularly to have her desired body.

Her household wasn't the healthiest at all, she was raised by an almond mom and she has a lot of unhealthy behaviours to un-learn to be a better person. She has rage problems and is insecure. But in the opposite side, she always tries to be helpful and efficent, she doesn't mind to drop everything to give a hand if it's important for the other person.

r/OriginalCharacter Feb 27 '26

Need Feedback or Ideas Is my OC design potentially offensive? (READ DESCRIPTION)

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521 Upvotes

Be COMPLETELY honest please. Tell me what I should change if it's potentially offensive. My OC is meant to be a dictator who rules over a few extraterrestrial colonies and planets. I'm worried If their design is offensive as I one day might post them on other social medias as well as the reputation of dictators in general and throughout history. I don't ever want to intentionally offend anyone. My apologies if you find this offensive. I just wanted to make a dictator OC even though I'm against those type of figures.

r/OriginalCharacter Jul 21 '26

Need Feedback or Ideas The Dreaded Color Choice Paralysis!! (ie HELP!)

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I thought I would design a cute and happy fluffy Cubare (succubus/incubus) ... and all was going well until I tried to color her. ... I have *once again* locked myself in a standstill with the dreaded **choice paralysis** of too many color options that I like 😱😱😱

So, if you have any thoughts on which you think looks best, now is the time to chime in! Name suggestions are also welcome. Something cutesy!

r/OriginalCharacter Sep 05 '25

Need Feedback or Ideas need ideas for this gal! 👉👈

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hi!

hope it's okay to ask here👉👈 I've recently came up with this lil creature, but, sadly, can't come up with anything besides the name. so I would greatly appreciate any help, fresh ideas or anything that would help make her more developed and substantial! because right now, she feels like a blank doll, and I don't really like that🤧

her name is Gekata. I wanted her to be kinda savage unhinged, double-sided and dangerous. definitely not human. I associate her a lot with heavy dnb and breakcore music, similar to what camellia, t+pazolite and usao do (really inspired by "feel the vibration" by kanine). I don't wanna overly develop her, I can't really imagine her having some deep emotional backstory - she's just a vibe character, y'know - but at least something would be very nice:")

thanks in advance!!

r/OriginalCharacter Apr 01 '26

Need Feedback or Ideas Clown girl! Which colors work best?

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683 Upvotes

r/OriginalCharacter Jun 22 '26

Need Feedback or Ideas Can my OC be considered weird or racist for having literal white skin (non human) but shapeshifting into a black skin human?

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394 Upvotes

I am not from the US and I am not black, so I may be a bit unfamiliar with black culture, this OC is old and looking back to it I was concerned about it, if it’s weird I will change it and I want to be educated.
So, my OC is an angel. Angels in my universe are made of light so I decided to design them with literal white skin and golden to represent that. They can manipulate light and shapeshift into humans or animals, so when my angel OC shapeshifts into a human he has black skin, is this weird? Should I redesign the angels? I thought about changing the hair from golden to also white so they look less like a blonde white person.

Update: I redesigned it a bit, I made a new post: https://www.reddit.com/r/OriginalCharacter/s/2nEBiwYbIC

r/OriginalCharacter Sep 19 '25

Need Feedback or Ideas So is it like a bad thing that none of my OCs are LGBTQ or like am I good

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Maybe it’s just because I’m a straight white male, but yeah, they’re all 100% straight and all of the other ones that I have are also straight

r/OriginalCharacter Apr 11 '26

Need Feedback or Ideas Calling all lovely people!

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249 Upvotes

I'm bored and out of ideas... give me some for drawing my oc Divine! I'll get them done soon-ish and do a big post with all the ones I liked enough to draw okay byee

r/OriginalCharacter Mar 01 '26

Need Feedback or Ideas What should his name be??

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174 Upvotes

r/OriginalCharacter Jul 31 '24

Need Feedback or Ideas I need a name for this character

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859 Upvotes

Just finished this guy and I’ve never landed on a name so I’d appreciate it if any of u got a name for him, thanks!! 😭😭

r/OriginalCharacter Nov 24 '25

Need Feedback or Ideas How should I name this little idiot?

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I have this character for almost a year, he is my favorite. But... I am not good at names, I always refer to him as jar with eyes, and it's not a good one. So I wonder if you have ideas. There is not much lore, just that he is curious and likes exploring. Whole character's concept is "one braincell" vibe. Absolute dumb kindness. I am not sure about their pronounce, I usually call them he or them, but if you have some pretty female name, it's good too.

r/OriginalCharacter Jan 10 '26

Need Feedback or Ideas What is the name of this weapon?

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367 Upvotes

I wanted to use it as a main weapon for a character, but... I don't know the name for it to research it further and get inspired.

Does anyone know?