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Here are a handful of quick tips to help you write believable characters! 

1. A character’s arc doesn’t need to grow linearly. Your protagonist doesn’t have to go from being weak to strong, shy to confident, or novice to professional in one straight line. It’s more realistic if they mess up their progress on the way and even decline a bit before reaching their goal.

2. Their past affects their present. Make their backstory matter by having their past events shape them into who they are. Growing up with strict parents might lead to a sneaky character, and a bad car accident might leave them fearful of driving.

3. Give reoccurring side characters something that makes them easily recognizable. This could be a scar, a unique hairstyle, an accent, or a location they’re always found at, etc.

4. Make sure their dialogue matches their personality. To make your characters more believable in conversation, give them speech patterns. Does the shy character mumble too low for anyone to ever hear, does the nervous one pace around and make everyone else on edge? 

5. Make your characters unpredictable. Real people do unexpected things all the time, and this can make life more exciting. The strict, straight-A student who decides to drink at a party. The pristine princess who likes to visit the muddy farm animals. When character’s decide to do things spontaneously or in the heat of the moment, it can create amazing twists and turns.

6. Give even your minor character’s a motive. This isn’t to say that all your characters need deep, intricate motives. However, every character should need or want something, and their actions should reflect that. What’s the motive behind a side character who follows your protagonist on their adventure? Perhaps they’ve always had dreams of leaving their small village or they want to protect your protagonist because of secret feelings.

I’ve seen a lot of posts on my dash tonight about users who are threatening suicide, with other Tumblr members posting in effort to try to get ahold of them. I think you all should see this:

IF THERE IS EVER A TUMBLR USER WHO HAS POSTED A GOOD-BYE MESSAGE, SUICIDE NOTE, VIDEO, OR ANYTHING OF THE SORT, PLEASE FOLLOW THIS POST.

1. Scroll to the top of your dashboard.

2. See the circular question mark icon at the top? It’s the third one over from your home symbol. Click on that, and a screen similar to the one in the picture will come up.

3. Where you can type in questions, the box with the magnifying glass at the top, type in the word “suicide.”

4. Click on the first link that shows up. It should say, “Pass the URL of the blog on to us.”

5. Type in the user’s URL and tell Tumblr admin that the user is contemplating suicide and has posted a message indicating that they are going through with it or will be attempting. Hit send! Tumblr administration will perform a number of actions to contact the user and take the necessary steps to prevent the suicide.

TUMBLR: THIS COULD SAVE A USER’S LIFE. PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE SUICIDE THREATS.

help.

Here's how it works on mobile:

I have to say that it's really awesome of Tumblr to automatically bring up the needed information just by searching it, they even send you a direct message from @kokobot to make sure you have the help you need. Also, here's the direct link to the post from Tumblr themselves: https://support.tumblr.com/post/74751945752/everything-okay

So if you or someone you know is struggling, please take advantage of the tools provided in this post thread.

I redid this list because broken links 💀

General Tips

Stretch your fingers and hands

Art is for fun

Never too late to start/improve

Using a tablet

Editing software: pictures & video

Moodboard resources

Comic pacing

Watercolor

Coloring

Color Theory (not children's hospital)

Gold

Dark Skin undertones

Dark Skin in pastel art

POC Blush tones

Eyes colors

Human Anatomy

POSE REFERENCES

Wizard Battle poses

Shoulders

Tips for practicing anatomy

Proportional Limbs

Skeletons

Hair Directions

Afro, 4C hair

Clothing

Long skirts

Traditional Chinese Hanfu (clothing reference)

CLOTHING REFERENCE

Sewing information

Animals

Horse -> Dragon

Snouts: dogs, cats, wolves, fox

Foot, paw, hoof

More

Drawing references sources

Art tutorial Masterlist

Another art tutorial Masterlist

Inspiration: father recreates son's art

Inspiration: Lights

ART BOOKS

Entry 1

01/12/2022

At the moment I'm not entirely sure how the people of Teyvat measure time or indicate their timelines, so I've resorted to what I know. Anyway, I decided to keep a journal of my time on Teyvat, ( I probably should've started this when I got here, oh well). I'll have to back track later.

On the plains of the nation called “Monstadt”, I was investigating a disturbance in the area, tremors or something like it. My investigation led me to a Ley Realm, or what the residence call “Domains”, it was monster infested, they seemed agitated by some kind of energy in there. I had to deal with them to investigate further. The “Domain's” path was riddled with puzzle-like mechanisms, they weren't a challenge. I reached the innermost sanctum of the “Domain” to find a sort of corrupt Excavator Field Tiller, it was slightly smaller than what I'm used to, the people of Teyvat have it easy, "easy" being a relative term. Though this corruption didn't take away its ferocity.

The battle was long but not very exhausting, I figured I might as well learn as much as I could about this condition, but as I was about to end the fight, a giant pheonix took that pleasure, or more accurately, the one who launched the pheonix did, seems like I wasn't the only one interested in the disturbance. I thanked him for his assistance, and seeing as the problem was solved, we went our separate ways.

I recalled some adventurers talking about a city to the north of Monstadt, I hadn't been there so I decided to head there next to expand my map and to rest up. Along the way, I saw a giant tower of a tree, as I went for a closer look, I saw statue next to it. It surged with a rejuvenating energy as I stood next to it and I felt healthy again, as I was intrigued by the statute, I heard a melody coming from behind the tree. I went to check it out, and I saw a... a "bard"? I think that's what they were called. He greeted me... in song. He told me of the tree and the history it carried... in song. I attempted to leave, but he stopped me and asked where I was going, I told him. He told me he was happy to give me a tour of the city, I... agreed, reluctantly.

It was late though, so I suggested we do it tomorrow in the morning. He seemed to have an idea for where I could spend the night, but he insisted we go somewhere to "unwind" first. He showed me to what looked like a café or bar, I entered to find the same man from the Ley Real— Domain behind the counter. He introduced himself as Diluc, and the bard as Venti. Diluc is apparently the owner of a winery, thankfully he serves non-alcoholic drinks, I hate alcohol, Venti doesn't seem to mind it at all, he even ordered one for me before I could say anything.

I realised something about Venti that felted familiar, could it be he's like.... No, I'm probably just homesick, I'm almost starting to actually miss my sister's nagging, almost. I hope she isn't in too much trouble because of me.

I better sign off, I have to get answers.

- Kinsey