Thread: Face Claims & Character Pics Survey

That's allota questions. Do you use photos representing real people? Why or why not? Yes, very quick and aids with description, some features of characters can be quite hard to explain, especially when you can ramble often like myself, so having a picture to work alongside when I'm writing a description for my character Even if I don't post it for my partner. is extremely useful. I can look at the picture and describe it as I see it, that way, I stop myself from rambling. How do you choose who represents your characters the best? Concept, Status and location. A rough ex-soldier in a post-apocalyptic world isn't going to be wearing a suit. Just as much as the son of a billionaire who inherits his fathers company isn't going to be wearing a rugged jacket and jeans more than likely When I grab a character face claim it's almost often more about how the person is presented in the picture. I'll always include the additional detail in my google search of 'Post-Apocalyptic', 'in a suit' that sort of thing as what you wear and how you present yourself can very clearly distinguish you from others. Do you ever use actorscelebrities? I've never gone super into this sort of thing, I've seen the celebrity threads but I've never gone deep into a celeb RP. It's not something I'm against the opportunity just hasn't risen. When using actorsactresses to represent your characters, do you ever base the character off of roles that actor has played? NA Do you use anime or art? Why or why not? Entirely depends on the partner, I have nothing against it, some partners are passionately against it. I can understand why, Anime proportions are sometimes drastically off but it doesn't before me entirely. When using drawn representations, do you use other people's art? Or do you draw your own? Does either matter to you? I am unfortunately a terrible artist, otherwise I'd love to draw my own characters. Have you ever used a canon anime picture for a non-canon character? ex like using Naruto's pic and screenshots but your character is an OC No, however this wouldn't be something a far shout from what I would do. When using pics, how often do you use them during the rp? In multi-character RP's I'll use pictures of characters often when the character is first introduced just to make it a bit easier on my partner getting used to the multiple characters and what each one looks like. It saves me the time of explaining the appearance of the character over and over again every time they talk I'll just instead put their name a link to their face claim. Do you just use it for the character profile and then that's it? Or do you also include reaction pics and gifs to accent your posts at crucial moments during the rp? Why or why not? I do not, often the character pic that I've chosen wont have a variety of different pictures as previously stated I've never played a celebrity which is where this would come into play most of the time. I likely wouldn't ever do it mostly due to my laziness to scour the internet for that many gifs and pics. Do you mind which type of pictures your partners use to represent their characters? I have this in my thread. This is my 'preference' however I always make it especially clear to my partners that I only care about their character being shorter than mine, anything extra just gives their character a push into my direction of preference but I make it abundantly clear that it is not necessary to tick all these boxes should they choose to RP with me. Does it affect how you visualize things if you use one type of picture but they use the otherlike, if you have a celeb and they have an anime character? No.