Character Writing 101: Building a Character From Scratch! | Narrative Academy

Hope you all enjoy my new little guys! I had a lot of fun with this one- I might do more like it in the future, if folks are interested? I like making new characters!! And if you want more writing and storytelling advice, check out my book! <3 thestarfishface.com/products/how-to-webcomic

9:19 "so now we've given him some kind of important connection in his life... let's tear it away" -every angsty artist ever

Maybe Nyx's family starts trying to track him down under the guise of bringing their sweet boy home but reality its because they're afraid that he'll out the secret of his parents scandal

In the simplest terms - character creation is just a long process of asking yourself questions over and over again until you like the answers.

Maybe Nyx's former "family" was responsible for Talis's animal buddy going missing in some way? And I can only imagine they would have had SOME dealings with Asher in some way or another.

Nyx is my new son. Thank you Star for creating him.

Star : "Wild Magic" Me : sweats in Fool's Gold

ngl i love the the idea of tallis teaching nyx to fish, like a good ol’ dad and son bonding day and that nyx acts like he hates it but secretly enjoys it and maybe he confesses a few things too because he feels so comfortable in that situation? not really a story plot but just a cute lil fluff idea, could all be happening while asher is like at a meeting pitching something

I'm sorry, I'm on the lineart for character 3 rn and I just screamed "MUMBO JUMBO???" at the top of my lungs, I love him so much

"Now he has a personal connection. Lets tear it away" It really do be like that

I have a silly idea. Maybe Asher tried to make his proposition of being an inventor to Nyx’s family but got rejected and went to another family. Then when Nyx scurried away and was off on his own, Asher remembered him. That could be why he went out of his way to comfort the poor kid and raise him in a sense (other than needing someone taller than himself) since he kinda knew them when he tired to pitch his inventions. Perhaps he stayed at Nyx’s house on a ‘trial’ to see what he could make but in the end, nothing caught the nobles eye and he was cast aside, just like everyone else who didn’t please them.

If Asher’s hair was black, he would’ve looked so much like Mumbo Jumbo

Imagine talis’ old friend from the island appears again in a rare animals sale from poachers and a cool heist happens, talis wanting to break it out, nyx going with talis fighting everyone, while Asher tried to talk the saler into selling it to him for a low price not wanting to cause a scene (also serving distraction).

me: pauses video, scurries to my closet to grab paper and pen to write down tips from the video and to make a character of my own using the charts. loved the video, it was exactly what I needed to help me write the characters for the current story :)

I may be going crazy, but character 3 (the gnome) really reminds me of Professor Heimerdinger from Arcane

you may be the fourth person ever to think of an ocean-themed druid, I've genuinely never heard of a character like that before but it's awesome

Talus has such surfer dad energy and I am here for it! All three of them are incredibly charming and easy to be enamored with, but I think he's my favorite of the trio. I want to kick back and have some fish tacos with him-- he seems like he'd have all sorts of wild stories to tell lol. And thank you so much again for the shout-out at the end; it's made my ENTIRE week and I just have the biggest, goofiest grin plastered on my face rn you have no idea 😄💖

I love Asher Pennybrook's design! He looks like he'd be an eccentric noble!🧐 He looks like you'd meet him at a fancy event, and in the end, he'll have somehow convinced you to sign up as his latest test subject for his experiment of sending humans to one of Jupiter's moons! 🛸🌛

YES, PLEASE make a follow up! I've been struggling to write characters, and even once I have them making their story is quite difficult. (I also maybe just fell in love with these three)

There's a book called Fantasy Art Genesis that has a ton of roll tables for random creature generation, plus action and emotion tables. Plus a lot of instructional stuff on drawing animals, plants and minerals. I love that book. While it's mainly based on creature and item generation, it can also be used for weird character generation and worldbuilding, and I think you'd have a lot of fun with it.