[SamSpyroxis]

Originally Posted by 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.

That makes a lot of sense actually :o That would explain a bit I suppose XD My go to for characters is generally black or almost black hair and bright blue or green eyes. I have dark hair yes, but my eyes are light brown, although I always wished I had super pretty bright blue or green XD

Originally Posted by littl3chocobo

it's very common. i see a lot of people making the same three or four ocs over and over and over and over with just tiny tweaks but some skinny oc unnatural hair color/yellow with blue eyes and white people skin is more prevalent than all other combinations combined

That's true. I know I've been guilty of it, hence why I haven't really made a new oc recently because it always feels too samey to other designs I made/attempted to make ;u;