👉 Question About OC's? 👈

[ANETRA]

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Hey everyone!
I have seen a lot of people with drawings of characters called OC's and was always confused what they were for but never really questioned it until several years have passed (LOL), when I decided to finally figure out what they're used for.
This is probably a dumb question, but what exactly are these characters used for? What is the art used for?

Thanks!

[Kazunan]

OC stands for original character. They are basically characters that people make for themselves or to trade/sell. They can be based off of the creator or just made up randomly. Hope this helps ^-^

[AnimalAtHeart]

OC simply means "Original Character", A character that a person made and belongs to them

They can be used for whatever a person wants, and art of someone's OC could be for any reason, Maybe just for fun, just to look at, or maybe for storytelling.

if you want a small example, the art in my signature is of two of my OCs, and the art is simply for fun

[Bilaz]

I've noticed there seems to be a difference between OCs that are mainly art and OCs that are mainly written? Like there are a lot of OCs that are beautiful artwork that is traded between people but personally my OCs are all written characters from my novel and I use them for roleplay. You can tell kinda because the characters in the signature above me have a lot more special design? They are really beautiful, props to you for drawing that art! Mine is just a normal teenage boy with no special design, the ears and tail and 20s clothes are because the roleplay's theme was 1920s werewolves, that's it really. He has a complex personality and backstory though, being one of the main characters of my novel.

To make a long story short I think there's a difference between OCs by artists and OCs by writers/roleplayers

[ANETRA]

Thank you for your answers Ophidi, AnimalAtHeart and Bilaz. That makes much more sense now.

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