I am so happy if they inspire you, just use common sense when using them as such - a good rule of thumb is to pick your favorite few aspects of a character and completely change what you can live without.
Heavily referencing/tracing for practice is only okay if you KEEP IT STRICTLY TO YOURSELF.
I'd rather not hear about *serious* kinning of my characters - largely because it raises concerns over stalker-ish behaviors, ownership stuff, and causes worries that character alterations may have extreme reactions.
I'd rather my characters not be used for random things you do online (roleplays, profile pictures, face claims, re-uploading, etc) because that takes a lot of things out of my control and worsens many issues: random, uncredited, unlinked instances of my OCs are more likely to get picked up, claimed, and stolen by other people, get scraped by AI bots and so on, etc. Please let me be responsible for my own character's online presence. Use my art as a phone background for all I care - just don't be the middle man that gets my characters stolen :/
I generally don't vibe with it or really know how to respond
I love any interest in my characters :) I may not have an answer for everything, but it could be helpful for character / world development. Please, no menial "when's their birthday" questions or creepy/sexual stuff (could be about an lgbt related struggle, but not xx)
I will try to read most things in a nuetral or positive tone given the language, but you can get away with a lot more (like rude humor) with tonal indicators to accert good intentions
I typically do not ghost intentionally - it is likely that I either haven't seen your message or I wanted to think on it and forgot. Either way you can try and send a "push notification" by contacting me through twitter, instagram, or discord
(as long as it's not AT me, ya know?) I swear quite a bit with friends sometimes and watch a lot of content that has swearing so you really don't need to worry about censoring yourself
1) Not everything I've made for/with/of that character has been published or will be, some stuff is messy wips, some are loads of concepts that I haven't decided on, some have tons of scribbles in a notebook that'll never be posted... not everything goes to Toyhouse
2) I appreciate them. Even if I have not made art, bios, or entries for them - maybe I daydream about them. Maybe I enjoy imagining them as one of the many members of another character's extended family. Maybe I enjoy seeing them as a background character that silently watches the chaos of my main storylines unfold. A character's profile isn't necessarily a direct reflection of a character's worth to me.
When I design a character, I am more concerned with presenting a
certain personality trait or demeanor over presenting as a certain
gender, so it's okay to not know one of my character's gender or even
not care (I know I don't), however, do not accuse me of intentionally
creating "traps" or inform me that I am drawing females "wrong" and that
you are angry you couldn't tell their gender immediately. It's intentional.
I don't care if you misgender me, my sona, or my characters - they are just
living their life and they look how they look. If you "don't want to have to
think about it too hard", that's cool - any of my characters can be referred
to with gender neutral terms like (they/them)
Even low-effort shitposts or unfinished sketches would make me smile :)
Characters with the "art wanted" tag on my Toyhouse are ones that have decent enough reference to go off of and
it also means they won't be redesigned or for sale in the foreseeable future.
You can draw my character with yours for fun/in a casual or friendly way. I'd just ask you avoid doing more serious stuff like imply a romance between my character and yours or have them killing each other or something crazy like that.
I'm generally not gonna be super picky over stuff like that (I used to be like that with some charactres but I got over it because it was sucking all the fun out of commissions and trades!)
I love seeing different styles from exaggerated to "indie video game" to cave painting to 90's pop illustration!
Themes are really cool and I especially favor things like tropical/chill, vaporwave, outrun/synthwave, 80s neon and movie motifs
Especially if you are even slightly fashionable, but please stay true to the
spirit of the character's style (unless you're literally just shit posting lol)
I usually don't mind, I'd just hate for you to draw, for example, Century in a
super cool and detailed fullbody art piece, but in a feminine outfit - since
them being a female that dresses more masculine is an important form of
self-expression for me
I mainly just don't want to see a picture of my characters being tortured just to be tortured and overtly terrified (at that point it comes across as a disconcerting fetish or power trip which I'd feel uncomfortable with my characters being the subject of)
I'm very okay with things like injury implied from a fight or ordeal or aesthetic gore (where there *isn't* a creepy amount of detail in the character expressing terror)
While gender doesn't matter for most of my characters, explicitly changing or adding sex characteristics to make them into a different biological sex is a bit weird to me.
I understand if you have trouble exaggerating and go middle of the road with all your body types or you have a particular art style, but otherwise please don't intentionally make chubby characters skinny, short characters tall, and vice versa