Amanita Muscaria

Where was your OC born, and where did they grow up?

How does your OC remember their childhood? Is this an accurate reflection of what their childhood was actually like?

If your OC could revisit their childhood, what would they want to change about it, if anything at all?

Describe three of the most important photographs your OC owns.

What is your OC's gender identity and sexual orientation? Is this also what they identify as in canon, or are they not (fully) aware?

How comfortable is your OC in their skin? Do they like who they are? What would they want to change about themself?

What is your OC's occupation?

What does your OC's family look like?

Describe a mundane day in your OC's life.

Does your OC have any physical scars? What is the story behind them?

What does your OC carry around in their pockets? What about their bag?

What is the worst thing that has happened to your OC? How has it affected their behavior, their health, and their life in general?

What is something your OC does (to others) that they would not like if others did to them? Are they aware that they do this?

Does your OC hold grudges? How good are they at letting things go? Do they believe in second chances?

What is your OC's fatal flaw?

Is there anyone your OC has lost contact with? What happened?

What are some of your OC's coping mechanisms during stressful or overwhelming periods in their life?

What are your OC's bad habits?

How does your OC handle preparing for and initiating a difficult conversation? How does the conversation itself go?

How quick is your OC to shift blame? Do they own up to their mistakes, or are they prone to start pointing fingers at others?

How does your OC handle criticism?

How good is your OC at apologizing, if they do this at all?

What is your OC like when they're angry?

What is your OC like when they're upset?

What is your OC's deepest desire? Would they ever ask for this?

How quickly does your OC reach their breaking point? What are they like when this point has been reached?

What are some assumptions others make about your OC? Are any of them true?

What does your OC think others are saying about them behind their back? Is any of this true?

What are three traits your OC has that can both have positive as well as negative qualities?

How paranoid is your OC? How does this affect their daily life?

Are there any places or people your OC is avoiding?

How does your OC handle rejection?

How does your OC handle jealousy?

What would be some of the signs your OC is starting to push people away?

If your OC had to kill someone, how would they do it? If killing is a near-daily occurrence to them, what is their preferred method?

Does your OC believe they deserve it when bad things happen to them?

What is the most common feeling or emotion in your OC's life?

What is the most recurring theme in your OC's nightmares?

What is your OC's pain tolerance like? What is the worst pain they have ever felt?

What is your OC afraid of?

Has your OC ever hurt someone, either physically or verbally?

How easily influenced by others is your OC?

What are common things your OC worries about?

Do others consider your OC to be scary or intimidating?

Does your OC keep their promises? Have they ever broken one before?

Does your OC carry any guilt with them?

If your OC had to pick a new identity and skip town, what would they come up with? Where would they go?

What would your OC do if they knew that this was their last day alive?

Does your OC fear death?

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My name is Sara, born in 2003 from Al-Shuja’iyya neighborhood. I am the eldest daughter in a family of eight, and I carried responsibility from a young age. I worked hard in my studies and graduated high school with a score of 95, dreaming of building a better future. After graduation, I got married and continued my university education. In 2022, I was blessed with my first daughter, Iman. We were living a simple, stable life, and my husband worked as a taxi driver.When the war began in October 2023, everything changed. We were displaced, and our home was completely destroyed. My husband also lost his car and his only source of income. We are now living in tents under very harsh conditions, facing fear and lack of basic needs. During the war, I gave birth to my second daughter, Masa, who is an infant and needs special care and essential supplies that are difficult for us to provide

Despite all this suffering, we still hold on to hope. Your support, no matter how small, can help me provide basic needs for my family and give my two daughters a safer and more dignified life. 🤍

Hello! For me, I personally find it pretty foreboding to put together an environment without prior research and references, so I recommend collecting a plethora of images from either Google, pinterest, or various other sources.

Creating a collage can assist you in picking out potential elements for your original envirionment. Building what is essentially a wardrobe of reference images might help develop your interiors "purpose", or intended function. For example, if you wanted to depict a futuristic living room, sleek furniture, more commonly seen in futuristic interior renders, will seem more appropriate than ornate Baraoque interior. Moreover, do you want the futuristic living room be well lived in, or relatively impersonal? This might translate into how the furniture is arranged, or if household objects are strewn about as opposed to systematically organized. It's also important to think about what shapes best represent your idea of a futuristic room. I might like drawing Laurel crown couches, but the shape is far too elaborate when compared to a typical streamlined futuristic couch.

When it comes to researching, I recommend creating a pinterest board and finding images of the specific type of room (a bedroom, or perhaps a kitchen), building, or environment you are trying to emulate. For example, my most recent project is meant to emulate an older living room/kitchen, thus, many of my references are antiquated living spaces.

This image specifically has been pulled up in a separate tab for almost the entire duration of my piece thus far.

Ultimately, even original environments are derived from real life, no matter how fantastical or far-fetched they might look. Studying the natural world teaches you interior norms, and if you understand interior norms, you can teach yourself when to break them.

A really good video on this by BaMAnimation on youtube goes into further detail on environmental design if you are interested!

But the specific thing I want to note here is how they describe backgrounds! Backgrounds/environments, according to BaMAnimation, are characters in and of themselves! Figuring out the purpose of your interior, just like how you might figure out the goal of your OC, will directly impact the visual presentation of your environment!

I recommend breaking down your idea into questions that you can answer!

1). Do you want your environment to be focused on the interior, or the exterior?

a). If its interior, what type of room, building, or indoor area do you want to depict?

b). What function does this room serve? If it's, lets say, a bedroom, what items are typically useful in bedrooms?

2). If it is an interior environment, is it inhabited or uninhabited?

a). How can you convey that it is either inhabited, or uninhabited? Is it messy, or is it very clean?

3). Is there a specific time or geographical area associated with your environment? Is it futuristic, or is it antiquated? Is it located near an ocean, or is it near the mountains?

a). What elements are associated with, for example, antiquated interiors? When looking for references, do you notice specific types of furniture, wall papers, or decorations more frequently seen than others in your references?

These are just some starter questions that might help narrow down your focus!

When it comes to actually putting your image together, I recommend playing around with grayscale mapping exercises! I like to swap out different room layouts or furniture positions when creating my environments, so grayscale mapping helps me quickly lay everything out infront of me before committing to the actual drawing. If you dont want to do grayscale mapping, however, I have heard that Minecraft can be good for creating a rough outline of your environment as well.

This video by Victor Staris on YouTube goes into more detail when talking about the actual creation process for environments! Topics like color warmth, textures, and object interaction, all elements I believe to be important when creating backgrounds, are covered in the video! I recommend looking into it if you're interested!