How to Take Your Ocs to The next Level!

Hi everyone, my name is midnight cross. Welcome back to my channel everyone in today's video I'm going to be showing you how to take your OCS to the next level and By that I mean not just your regular basic OCS in today's video I want you guys to be able to make these amazingly detailed OCS with these incredible backstories and in today's video. I'm going to give you some tips and tricks on how you can do it The character I am drawing in the background of this video is not my own I see This is actually a character for a Secret Santa event. I'm in on debian arts And so this character is a character by honey H0n II - why I will put a link to their Deviantart page in the description But their character is named candy And so I thought she would be the perfect character to draw First video and I thought since I had the footage for this I thought it'd be a good chance to use it in this video And this character is so nice. So like why wouldn't I want to show it in this video? Anyway, without further ado. Let's get onto the video how to take your o'seas to the next level My straight up first tip to you Which is something I see a lot with OCS and it's more of a side note really just to keep in mind while I'm giving this tutorial don't make your OC a Mary Sue or a Gary suit and Mary Sue is an idealized and a Perfect character like a character with absolutely no flaws They can do everything perfectly And you won't find anyone in real life who is absolutely perfect and never makes mistakes So this tip is just don't make your character someone who is perfect because everyone has their flaws Instead when you are making NRC think about the world your character is in So this tutorial is assuming that you already have a basic RC or you might be just thinking about creating an RC One of the first tips that I like to think of when I make OCS is to think about the world. Your OSI is in For example, your character might be in a regular world and go to school. That's fine But think about if your character is in in an apocalyptic world Your character would dress differently and act differently to survive in that sort of world So that is something I want you to keep in mind when you are creating your character you think about that universe? Also think about their backstory and who they were before Another example going along the apocalypse theme is that maybe they lost their parents in the apocalypse and Now they are super Distrustful of anyone else just Think about what happened before? What were they like before they got to this place? What were they like when they were younger? Think about all of these things and that will help make Yossi's much more realistic Keep their age in mind as well and make sure they act their age Depending on what sort of environment they're in again, like for example If it weren't in an apocalyptic world your character Even if they may be young it might have to act older than they are to adopt adapt with the new landscape or Think about the fact that they may be a certain age, but they act younger for some reason Think about their personality, so give them good traits, but also think about flaws so don't make all of their traits something simple like kinds nice helpful Generous try and think of some more creative traits You might have some bad traits and you might have some good traits for example a good trait might be that there a Well, I can't think of any good traits at the moment I didn't write examples a floor might be that they are distrustful a floor might be that they get angry really easily or they might get jealous really easily a Good trait might be that they are Welcoming and Accepting They might be a more accepting character who accepts other people's flaws because they have flaws themselves Think about how their backstory could influence their current traits and good habits and bad habits This is one of my biggest tips for making your OCS really realistic and deep characters all of these things have to relate to each other because if you just give them a Bad trait for some reason you have to think about why they have that trait why they might have this bad habit Why they might like this thing, but dislike this other thing As an example one of my other o'seas named Amelia Grew up to dislike men because of the way her father treated her you could also think of a silly reason to have a small phobia like a Character who had an apple fall on her head is now scared of apples think about things in their backstory their universe and all of these kind of things because all of these little things all mixed together and make your character the character they are Think about the type of creature your character is Now a lot of my characters are human, but I have other characters who are creatures as well and when you do this Make sure the universe they're in also suits this maybe you have multiple universes or realms to fit in each different type of character They might be a human or an alien or a vampire or a werewolf, whatever kind of creature you want But if you make them a certain type of creature or a certain type of mythical being make sure it fits in with your characters backstory and family and That's really really important. Don't just make it something like this character is an alien, but their parents are human and Yes, something weird is going on there Make it so it actually makes sense maybe a certain type of storyline if you did want to make an alien character is that If they didn't already have alien parents Maybe you could make it that that aliens parents Are humans on earth and they found like this egg with the alien character inside it? I don't know but what I mean by this tip is just think about who your character is and whoever they are make sure it all fits in with the universe and Who your character is and who your characters family is and the backstory? We're making an OC I would suggest to give your character friends and family and It's fine if they're an orphan, there are lots of orphan characters But still make sure to think about the family that they had and what happened to them They don't have to have friends either, but maybe someone they can trust Or maybe someone they admire or they can open up to or they look up to You don't have to create o'seas for them, too but just think about them while you write the characters backstory and think about the and other things Another thing which I think is really commonly overlooked is giving the character a suitable name for the culture And I can't really speak for myself because much of my RCS were made when I was like 13 and they all have these odd Japanese names but what I mean by this is don't give them an ultra long name unless it fits in with who they are if They're from like a wealthy family. Then they probably would have a really really long name But if they're not or if they're a character from maybe an alien planet, they might not even have a last name Also think about this if you want them to be more realistic Try and consider not giving them a Japanese name to a character who is from England for example Unless they are originally from Japan Give give the proper type of name to the proper type of character and that will make your characters a lot more deeper and a lot more realistic because For example, you don't see anyone from like Australia with the name Sakura unless they're from Japan Try and stay away from cliches. You see way too many characters these days following cliches And so what you really want to do is make your characters unique You see way too many characters who are soon there's early Andrei's orderid areas or smart characters that were classes childish characters that wear pink Think about these cliches and try to make your characters unique Don't just say okay. Well, they've got a yandere personality. Maybe they do have a Aundre personality traits But don't straight up calling me Andre try and think of some things that can make them unique For example, if you do like the Andre personality You could make a sort of a Andre character that has a childish side or a character that wears glasses for other reasons rather and Being actually smart. Maybe they think it looked makes them look smart or Maybe it helps them to fit in Or maybe the glasses are some kind of magical portal where they can see ghosts and things for their glasses Try and put your own sort of unique twist onto these cliches and that is when you'll be able to create this really awesome and unique character Don't make your character too similar to an already created character from some popular series For example, you might make a wizard character who wears glasses and discovers. He's a wizard and goes to a magic school Does that sound familiar? or you could make a magical girl that goes around fighting evil in the town if You feel like your character is too similar to an already cunning character then do something to make your character special This is similar to the Mary Sue tip I gave at the beginning of this video, but don't make your character a god unless There is an actual reason for that character being a god because in a roleplay battle if you plan on doing role plays with this character or even if you don't You want both sides to fight equally you don't want to make your character So powerful that they can destroy something in a single blow One punch man. Does it in a good way because even though Saitama can defeat people in one punch the world he is in is Exaggerated and he trained really hard to get where he was See what I mean about universe Even though Saitama is super strong and he can defeat people in one punch his whole universe is also very exaggerated and there are a lot of exaggerated monsters and villains Don't make your character suddenly super powerful but not have any reason for it Make sure your character has some weaknesses as well as being ultra powerful if you plan on making a powerful character If you need some help there are plenty of OC sheets on Debian arts that ask questions to help you flush out your ACS You can write down answers to the questions and it should help you add more realism to your SES In this video I talked about how to add realism to your characters and how to take them to the next level But one thing I should also mention is the design of your characters Make sure when you're designing them that they fit in the universe that you have created for your OC Make sure that the clothes they wear fit with their age and their personalities For example if your character is a tough sort of character It's unlikely that they'd be wearing cutesy sort of clothes unless they had a certain reason for wearing that kind of clothes In an apocalyptic world, maybe your character would be wearing things that would help them. Say Steve Like carrying ropes carrying knives or things like that It's just some thoughts But I want you to take these tips and think about them with your own o'seas so that you can create your very own OCS and take them to the next level think about what you can do to make your characters really unique and make them stand out from the crowd and That is when your OCS will really shine So thank you so much for watching my video today everyone. I really hope it helped you and you enjoyed it I'd love to see your OC So please show them to me in the comments and please let me know if this video helped you everyone I really really hope it in So again, thank you so much for watching my video today, and I will see you in the next video. Bye