I just did an art piece of Charla!
![Image](https://orig00.deviantart.net/48d4/f/2018/118/4/f/bath_time_by_hoffnungsstern-dca1kkb.jpg)
He also has a profile now! Check it out here:
https://toyhou.se/372949.charla (click one of the music notes to hear some water or bee sounds!)
Also did a piece of Stan!
![Image](https://orig00.deviantart.net/53a0/f/2018/105/d/9/baby_fishes_by_hoffnungsstern-dc8xdb1.png)
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what got you into characters ?Warrior cats! (you know, the book series) It's a long story and it was really coincidental like we had this magazine with books in it and my grandma told me to choose one and she would buy it for me and there was the first book of warrior cats and it seemed pretty boring to me but something made me choose this book I really don't know why. The cover was boring and I was more into dogs and dolphins anyway but yeah I choosed this book and I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed it so much that I went to the offical german site for it and it's a forum and all and they had a gallery for the users to submit their art and as soon as I saw it I just spent hours on that site just looking through pictures and thought wow I want to draw like that. And some days later I asked my mom to sign me up for that site and I started writing, drawing and roleplaying and with that there also came characters. Warrior Cats really started pretty much all my hobbies and I really don't know where I would be now if I hadn't choosen the boring looking book. I even found friends on this site and one became my best friend to this day (and funny enough this was also a coincidence as she just messaged me because the signature she ordered in my art shop was too big and if I could make it smaller)
who was your first character ?I think it was either my fursona Hope or Wasserfall which was a fox character I played in my very first roleplays I still have some sketches of her lying around somewhere I might bring her back someday.
do you have a fursona / mascot ? why or why notYeah I have! It's Hope
https://toyhou.se/249837.hope and basically I have her because everyone else had a fursona back then and everyone was known by their fursona and so I needed one too I guess. She originally was a character created out of that kitten creator game and we used fursonas gernerally to draw pictures with us an our friends in it in that warriorcats forum and i have had her ever since then.
Regarding the Add Pole why did you vote the way you did? What are your views on the matter?I voted for "Require that posts containing advertisements contribute more to the group discussion"
I just think it would be the best as I don't think seperating would do any good in terms of conversation. And in my opinion the sharing of the designes you made is kinda part of this group I like to see the new designes from users on here the problem is really just if people advertise but add nothing else to their post. It's really not that hard to reply to some people or answer some questions or anything. I think with a seperate sales thread it would rather shift the focus from this thread to the advertisement thread which isn't really adding anything to the conversation but who knows maybe it would result in more posts just with discussion. I guess a sperate thread would be worth a try!
In your time of owning characters have you gone through theme phases? What phases have you gone through? Are you in one now?I think I have my very first characters were all like boring characters out of character creator games but I guess they didn't look all that awfullbut as I said they were really boring. Then I went into that phase where I adopted everything that looked kinda interesting and was within my price range (and to clarify 20 points was a very high amount for me back then) and I guess now I'm more interested in very unique designes which aren't a closed species like monsters and that stuff I also buy more human designes as compared to the last few years in which I had none sicne i couldn't draw humans so I wasn't interested in them.
What could your fellow club members do to make you feel more welcome or more content with being a part of this group? What things would you like to see more of? More questions would be nice I really like answering them also maybe more small fun events where we trade some art? They could be on weekends or something like that and wouldn't be long just a piece of art per user or something like that
Drawing promts would be nice too! Like a weekly promt or something
I love reading about stories of the characters of other users too! (I just often don't have time to read very long texts)
Do you think there are any circumstances that allow an individual to break an artist/designers TOS/rules? Why do you think that? What are some ways it can be avoided? One of the things I can think of is if the artist/designer is unknown. I can't follow any rules if I don't know them to begin with. Could be avoided easily with a watermark wich states the name or website of the artist! It doesn't have to be big just a small but still readable name. And make sure people can find your rules on the same page as the picture and don't have to search through thousands of sites to even see that you in fact have rules for your designes/art.
Also the "don't resell" rule is stupid in my eyes. If you paid for a design you should be able to resell it especially when it comes with extra art (I think it's even legal to resell what you bought despite what the designer says but yeah I don't know if that's true I just read it somewhere)
Pick a character and show us what they look like. Do they like the spring season? What do they like/dislike? What are their favorite activities in this season? What is their favorite thing to eat/drink around this time of year?I will let a random number generator choose for me as it is kinda hard to choose off of almost 800 characters
I got Rico
https://toyhou.se/2070800.ricoHe kinda likes spring as the flowers fall into the lake he lives in and he finds them pretty! He doesn't do anything special in this season except from swimming around and maybe collect some fallen flower petals. He doesn't drink anything and he eats algae but he does that the whole year except for winter (since he sleeps then)
Do you have an odd species of characters? Show them off and give us a bit of background on them. Oooh I have a lot of weird characters. I have 10 pages of them
https://toyhou.se/Hoffnungsstern/charac ... der:258942For this question i will choose
https://toyhou.se/742922.helia (ignore her profile it looks ugly)
She is basically a cloud which suffers from insomnia and keeps people awake (who then also can't sleep) to keep her company
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@ -TheBigBlueBear-
Your fursona looks gorgeous! i love the colours also good luck with commissions!
@lunamoth19
Tsuki is so beautiful! Also that emojis are really cute!
@Violenca
Oooh that base looks stunning! I might order one later! Isla looks very interesting too!
Those chibis look so cute I especially like the one of Kilian!
@Error
Welcome back! Aurous has such nice colours!
@MayaDaBanana
Amaryllis doesn't look quite as messy as the characters I used to find cool haha
I love the colours of Maya! Such nice brown tones.
@Peachy Tea
can't see your new kia that cactus dog looks interesting though! Hope you get some nice offers!
@pinebones
Such neat designes! Good luck with offers!
@TheSongOfTheStars
Aah yeah that's exactly the reason I don't really own a lot of closed species adopts I never really know whats allowed and what's not and it's not really fun for me even though the characters look really cool. Naygavi looks so interesting!