Finding Appearances

[Salt Lord]

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So in every roleplay I've been in, character sheets have been a required thing. In those character sheets, appearances were required whether they were anime images, descriptions, or even both. Yet many people stuck with the images. Which makes sense--it can make a CS look pleasing and save you the trouble of describing things on your own. But there's something about finding images that never fails to frustrate me (and I'm sure it happens to everyone). I have tons of reasons for this, but something tells me that literally everyone else's will be a lot more interesting to read. <img alt=" " data-emoticon="" height="20" src="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/ohmy.png" srcset="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/ohmy@2x.png 2x" title=" " width="20" /></p>

 

[Idea]

Actually, as someone who expected a question about How to find images, I am quite interested in hearing your reasons

 

[Salt Lord]

Actually, as someone who expected a question about How to find images, I am quite interested in hearing your reasons

If you say so. :v


From what I've seen, nearly every character portrayed in said image looks the same (and no, it's not just the same character in every image). The guys all have devious squints, flirty smirks, swimmer's builds. The girls all have giant tits, wide eyes and impossibly long eyelashes, and are wearing the sluttiest things you could put on a chick.


Of course, these are all other people's preferences and choices, and I'm not gonna complain about those. It's just that there are way too many drawings shaped around those preferences. Not all of the male characters I play are perfect, nor are the females. Not all of my characters are impossibly attractive, but I can only find drawings of attractive characters. ;-;


... I feel like I'm complaining about the things I said I wouldn't complain about

 

[Idea]

[QUOTE="Salt Lord]If you say so. :v
From what I've seen, nearly every character portrayed in said image looks the same (and no, it's not just the same character in every image). The guys all have devious squints, flirty smirks, swimmer's builds. The girls all have giant tits, wide eyes and impossibly long eyelashes, and are wearing the sluttiest things you could put on a chick.


Of course, these are all other people's preferences and choices, and I'm not gonna complain about those. It's just that there are way too many drawings shaped around those preferences. Not all of the male characters I play are perfect, nor are the females. Not all of my characters are impossibly attractive, but I can only find drawings of attractive characters. ;-;


... I feel like I'm complaining about the things I said I wouldn't complain about

[/QUOTE]
Have you ...tried finding one that...


Actually, go to the artistic section of the site and ask them how many drawings they make weekly. Even on a place like, say, deviantArt a lot of artists are too busy to put more than like one thing every three days or so, at best.


In other words, artists who will waste time making ugly pictures are rare and even rarer are the ones that will just upload them. You're also complaining about a whole style of drawing, the anime style. If you dislike anime, there's nothing anyone can do about it, but it's not like people are aiming at finding perfect builds: those just happen to constitute 90% of the options.

 

[Ammokkx]

Or you could just write a description.


0% chance you don't convey what you want to convey, unless you're just bad at describing stuff. though to be fair I'm biased because I have a preference for described appearances

 

[Salt Lord]

Have you ...tried finding one that...
Actually, go to the artistic section of the site and ask them how many drawings they make weekly. Even on a place like, say, deviantArt a lot of artists are too busy to put more than like one thing every three days or so, at best.


In other words, artists who will waste time making ugly pictures are rare and even rarer are the ones that will just upload them. You're also complaining about a whole style of drawing, the anime style. If you dislike anime, there's nothing anyone can do about it, but it's not like people are aiming at finding perfect builds: those just happen to constitute 90% of the options.

Not entirely sure what point you were trying to make with the 'this many drawings per few days' thing, but I do get that I'm only complaining about one style. The one style that happens to be the most commonly used in roleplays. Also the one that I was talking about to begin with.

Or you could just write a description.
0% chance you don't convey what you want to convey, unless you're just bad at describing stuff. though to be fair I'm biased because I have a preference for described appearances

Don't get me wrong, I love describing characters and I do it whenever I can, but I'm not too big on being the only one in the roleplay without an image in my CS. Makes me feel rather isolated. D:

 

[Idea]

[QUOTE="Salt Lord]Not entirely sure what point you were trying to make with the 'this many drawings per few days' thing, but I do get that I'm only complaining about one style. The one style that happens to be the most commonly used in roleplays. Also the one that I was talking about to begin with.
Don't get me wrong, I love describing characters and I do it whenever I can, but I'm not too big on being the only one in the roleplay without an image in my CS. Makes me feel rather isolated. D:

[/QUOTE]
My point was that you could have some second hand experience as to why people just don't have access to a variety of poor -looking character images and try to justify their decision.

 

[call me rae]

Well I use just about all the styles of descriptions you can think of.


Anime / Illustrated Realism / Cartoon / Real Models / Cosplay / Body Art / etc.


And to be honest I think the quality of the pictures is a lot more varied than - everyone looks the same and they all have the same body type.


Even in Anime if you put some effort in you can find subtle variations - or at least more realistic variations of people.


It's just a matter of personal preference and putting the time in to search for a kind of picture you like.


If you need help finding specific anime pictures there are a few face claim helper threads in Tutorials.

 

[Salt Lord]

My point was that you could have some second hand experience as to why people just don't have access to a variety of poor -looking character images and try to justify their decision.

Oh, wait, You must think I'm complaining about there being less ugly characters being drawn. I think.


No, it's that there aren't enough average characters.

Well I use just about all the styles of descriptions you can think of.
Anime / Illustrated Realism / Cartoon / Real Models / Cosplay / Body Art / etc.


And to be honest I think the quality of the pictures is a lot more varied than - everyone looks the same and they all have the same body type.


Even in Anime if you put some effort in you can find subtle variations - or at least more realistic variations of people.


It's just a matter of personal preference and putting the time in to search for a kind of picture you like.


If you need help finding specific anime pictures there are a few face claim helper threads in Tutorials.

I think this thread was a little misinterpreted.


I appreciate the attempts, really, but I never asked for help nor did I expect to get into discussions. I just wanted to read other posts about people getting frustrated by these things, but at least I learned something from it. I'm just an easily frustrate-able person. :v


If I could close this thread, I would, but I can't. Could we do the next best thing and not post again, since it didn't exactly go as planned and probably never will? :::V

 

[Idea]

[QUOTE="Salt Lord]Oh, wait, You must think I'm complaining about there being less ugly characters being drawn. I think.
No, it's that there aren't enough average characters.


I think this thread was a little misinterpreted.


I appreciate the attempts, really, but I never asked for help nor did I expect to get into discussions. I just wanted to read other posts about people getting frustrated by these things, but at least I learned something from it. I'm just an easily frustrate-able person. :v


If I could close this thread, I would, but I can't. Could we do the next best thing and not post again, since it didn't exactly go as planned and probably never will? :::V

[/QUOTE]
It's the same point. I won't argue further since you don't want it, but seriously speaking my point stands: there are practically only gorgeous pics because those are the pics taht get drawn. The others are a ninche, which means their variety is way more limited, and would restrict the options on aid eyes people think more relevant.

 

[Salt Lord]

It's the same point. I won't argue further since you don't want it, but seriously speaking my point stands: there are practically only gorgeous pics because those are the pics taht get drawn. The others are a ninche, which means their variety is way more limited, and would restrict the options on aid eyes people think more relevant.

Oh, now I see what you're getting at. I apologize if I seemed ignorant D:

 

[Idea]

[QUOTE="Salt Lord]Oh, now I see what you're getting at. I apologize if I seemed ignorant D:

[/QUOTE]
Not at all. It's a legitimate complaint and Was I not in deviantArt myself, I would probably never have come in contact with the people who taught me such things. Without that knowledge, your complaints had their legitimacy: if people were indeed continually going for those images on purpose, then that would be an awful mistake from their part. Simply, they don't happen to be. My only goal was to try to help you understand and maybe make it a bit easier for you to deal with it (also to show off a bit, I suppose? I think I may be just argumentative... Heh).

 

[MISTER UN. 0W3N]

I'll say this: it's a goddamn gamble in finding characters. For me, I don't start off with the look or some small background idea of a character. All of my ideas start from the music I'm listening to. Trying to find an image that fits the music that inspired me can be tough work. Albeit, I pretty much stick to the same models these days because... lazy and a lot of work. xD But, yeah, I feel you in trying to toss up different characteristics and appearances of a character. Sometimes I luck out with some of my friends. We regularly exchange and point out models that I may be looking for that doesn't fit the standard mold or has a particular thing that catches my eyes (and, I ain't talking about the boobies or the booty). I think it's a bigger challenge for those that use real image models to find something that invokes certain characteristics moreso than drawn (just my opinion and what not). Besides that, I honestly wind up getting lucky if I'm looking for something that isn't the usual look for drawn and real image models. That and... describing is my bestest best friend. I understand why thread owners ask for images (I do that and ask for written as well). It just easier to give the first once over and capture what the character is vaguely about.


But, yeah... for not so average or different images, it could help to hook up with users and exchange images/names of artists to help ease up that burden of finding someone that's not so cookie cutter.


... THE END! :U