The recent artist discourse rn is making me legit sad.
On one hand we have “real art is from passion not $$$” + “my OC art is free real estate to any RP/DnD player on the internet”
= to artists don’t deserve to get paid for their work. Work done should deserve fair pay!

= to artists don’t deserve to get paid for their work. Work done should deserve fair pay!
Not all artists are the same however and the good thing would be to ask first.
But there’s many resources to create your character from:
https://picrew.me
https://www.heroforge.com
avatar sites: @gaiaonline
https://charactercreator.org





If you really want a custom character for you, there’s a ton of artists on twitter with a range of prices to commission.
You can take your “inspiration image” break it down to:
Drow, white hair, facial tattoos,rogue class.
Take it to 10 diff artists & get 10 diff characters
You can take your “inspiration image” break it down to:
Drow, white hair, facial tattoos,rogue class.
Take it to 10 diff artists & get 10 diff characters

This thread is also a good reas on why it night not be so simple to just get a random character art from google:
https://twitter.com/demitsorou/status/1314089213462183936?s=21 https://twitter.com/demitsorou/status/1314089213462183936
https://twitter.com/demitsorou/status/1314089213462183936?s=21 https://twitter.com/demitsorou/status/1314089213462183936
Found this entire comprehensive list of free character makers from this user on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/comments/8e1r26/i_made_a_list_of_all_those_character_creator_games/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=&utm_content=post_body
Another reason against using someone’s OC art w/o permission:
https://twitter.com/wenshark/status/1314110215575363585?s=21 https://twitter.com/wenshark/status/1314110215575363585
https://twitter.com/wenshark/status/1314110215575363585?s=21 https://twitter.com/wenshark/status/1314110215575363585
Historically a lot of the greatest works of art exist because of patrons of the arts:
Read more here https://www.google.com.ph/amp/s/www.artsy.net/article/the-art-genome-project-from-mesopotamia-to-1980s-new-york-what-art-history-owes-to-its-patrons/amp
Read more here https://www.google.com.ph/amp/s/www.artsy.net/article/the-art-genome-project-from-mesopotamia-to-1980s-new-york-what-art-history-owes-to-its-patrons/amp
More resources for free character making: https://twitter.com/drakkoholic/status/1314152847995531267?s=21 https://twitter.com/drakkoholic/status/1314152847995531267
If you want a more realistic character face, there’s this website you can use: https://generated.photos/