[Tohopekaliga]

I think it's sort along the lines of something my dad pointed out to me one day (walking through the artist alley of an anime convention, lol):

If you're not specifically thinking about avoiding, you're going to put some of yourself in pictures you make.

The examples he pointed out were this black guy who made excellent pictures, but all of them, no matter what race was being depicted had a bit of a "black" structure to them (the noses especially), this raver-looking girl whose, uh...yaoi images looked rather similar to her, and, uh...others that I forget.

He actually asked that girl if a picture was meant to be her, and she said it did not. And it was in that conversation that he made that observation.


I think the same thing applies to OCs for things. People are naturally inclined to invent characters similar in some way to themselves.