Thread: Face Claims & Character Pics Survey

Do you use pictures to represent your characters in role-plays? Yes If yes Do you use photos representing real people Why or why not? I make the choice to use models and singers. It makes it easier to find more than one picture of them. I dont always do this though. If I can find a picture of someone, and I like the picture, then Ill go with it. I use bing and deviantart to find most, if not all, of my pictures. With deviantart, I can find galleries where there are more than one picture of the same girl. How do you choose who represents your characters the best? I know this may sound crazy, but its a feeling really. I see the picture, and the character that Ive already created just seems to fit. In my mind, when Im creating a character, I usually have an idea of what I want them to look like. I keep searching until I find a picture that clicks. Do you ever use actorscelebrities? Yes. Indeed I do. My faceclaim that I use for my character Tessa Arcadia is actually an actresssinger. When using actorsactresses to represtent your characters, do youe ver base the character off of roles that actor has played? No. When I found the picture I use for Tessa, I had no idea the movie she had done as a child. I didnt even know she was a singer. I had done a search for women with white hair, and I found her. I found a picture that listed her name and went from there. It was shocking to find out the movie she had done as a child. I found more pictures of her, and some of them where related to her band. I listened to one of her songs, and shes actually as gothicemo as the character Tessa can be. So it was a pleasant coincedence actually. Other than her, my teenage girls are just models that I searched for. My faceclaim for Callie Coleman comes from deviantart. Do you use anime or art? Why or why not? I dont make it a habit to. The pictures seem fake to me. Granted they are humans, but its something that has been drawn or created on a computer. There is no real life essence to them. That character never actually took a human breath. I will use them if my partners have a preference for them. When using drawn representations, do you use other peoples art? I just do a bing search. Clearly its not my own work. I struggle with stick figures. Or do you draw your own? I struggle with stick figures. Does either matter to you? Not really. The real life pictures arent mine. So why would it bother me to use someone elses artwork? Have you ever used a canon anime picture for a non-canon character? ex like using Narutos pic and screenshots but your character is an OC No. When using picks, how often do you use them during the rp? That one depends. Most of the time, its just at the beginning to establish my character. If I have a partner that likes pictures used during the rp, then I have no problem doing that. I have never included reaction pictures and gifs. Once, and I probably would not be able to do this again even if I tried, I had a partner request very specifically that he would like for my character to show up wearing a lot of pink. I think he even wanted her to have a big bow in her hair. She would get to his house, and when it became clear whos home she was at, clearly she would not be happy. I knew that. I managed to find a picture of the girl I was using for the rp, Tessa Arcadia, in a pink dress, with a big bow, staning with her arms folded, and she was not happy. It was too perfect. I dont include the gifs because Im not good at looking for those kinds of things. I guess I only include the crucial moment pics when my partner wants them. Do you nind which type of pictures your partner use to represent their characters? Does it affect how you visualize things if you one type of picture buut they use the other like, if you have a celeb and they have an anime character? I dont mind what type of picture my partner uses. As long as theyre happy and comfortable, Im okay. Yes it does make it harder for me to visualize their character if they use anime. I will be honest about that. I will still try though. My using pictures isnt just for my partner. Its for my benefit as well. I already have my character who is living out whatever I decide within the rp. A faceclaim gives a face to name, the character, the person that I am controlling. Its not just some name I typed on the screen anymore. It helps give them more depth.