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Note: Please see the Writing Resources Page for overall navigational notes on my directories.
Just making a quick directory for my character building and writing in this post, nothing fancy to show off here! Not a comprehensive list since I’ll build more along the way.
📝 Note from Blazi:
▪️ This is a fantasy-adventure focused compilation list, but can be used in general anyway.
▪️ This serves as both a visual and writing resource, it is primarily writing focused.
💟 CHARACTERS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
🔳 Character Creation
▪️ Generators
▪️ Character Design
▪️ Colours
🔳 Character Expansion
▪️ Character Building
Related resources:
🟥 Visual + Writing Resources (Environment and World Building)
🟥 Visual Inspiration
💟 CHARACTER CREATION
This section is dedicated to whatever is used to help create and describe your character(s), getting down the basics of who and what they are and just getting started. This section of links may be used to help expand the character as well.
No concrete order is done in making characters, everyone makes a character at whatever interval they wish to make them (E.g. When something specific happens in a story, creating a character for the sake of making a character). What I personally do is research + write out the character, give a name (generate a name or research for one), research/search up for design inspiration, do a rough chibi design sketch, and make a refined character concept art design.
💟GENERATORS
💡🏷️ Ideas, inspiration
- Coolors
▪️ For generating colour palettes - Fantasy Name Generator
- Fantasy Name Generators
▪️ Has more options than the above, such as locations and company names - Name Generator
- Word Unscrambler
▪️ Word Combiner - RanGen: Personality Generator
- Job/Occupation Generator
▪️ Best used for modern settings. - Fantasy Professions Generator
- Character Traits Generator
- Character Archetypes Generator
- Appearance Generator
▪️ Note: Not visual based, this is text only. - Character Generator
- Motive Generator
- Love interest Generator
- Dialogue Generator
- 101 Quick NPC Personality Generator
- Behind the Name Random Name Generator
▪️ Includes names across cultures - Rinkworks Fantasy Name Generator
▪️ Generates a large quantity of names at a time, great for minor characters - Random Backstory Idea Generator
- Backstory Description Generator
- Player class & NPC type Generator
💟CHARACTER DESIGN
🖼️💡🏷️ Design, idea exploration, inspiration, tips, references, tutorials
📝 Note from Blazi:
This section is a mix of both visual and writing based sources.
- 💡OSF Costume Rentals
- Knight armor
▪️ Composition - 💡 Fashion Guide for Women
- 💡 Shoes
- (desket) The Psychology of Colors by Carey Jollife
- Tutorial: Character Design by Kynim
- Unique Character Design Tips by thundercake
- 638 Primary Personality Traits
▪️ List of descriptive words (positive, neutral, negative), but it’s good for vocabulary! - Examples of Personality Traits
- 3 Ways to Know (or Choose) Your Fictional Character’s MBTI Type + An Overview of the 16 Types by Mandy Wallace
💟COLOURS
🏷️ Colour terms for describing physical traits.
- HTMLcolorcodes
- Wikipedia: List of colors (A-F)
- Wikipedia: List of colors (G-M)
- Wikipedia: List of colors (N-Z)
▪️ [Can also navigate to color topics] - PerBang
▪️ Colour conversion tool, it can give a name to a selected colour!
💟 CHARACTER EXPANSION
🏷️ Guides, tips, resources, prompts. Resources dedicated on helping expanding your character(s) a bit more.
💟CHARACTER BUILDING
🏷️ Going from relationship building, describing character traits, anything related to character development
- Developing Strong Character Relationships in Your Novel [8 Types]
- Romance: Why can’t they be together now?
- Romance: The Kiss Rule
- Fantasy Job names for characters
▪️ That aren’t just ‘knight’ or ‘peasant’ - Mini Collection of Tips for Writers
- Describing what your character is wearing
- 33 Ways to Write Stronger Characters
- 75+ bad habits for your character
- 30 SCENE IDEAS FOR CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
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