Childhood ocs that look like your current ocs

[Leyelle]

I remembered this little girl I drew when I was 14 and realized she has quite a bit in common with Texas. Also that I just really love this old art style

[ArtGremlin]

The oldest ocs that I can remember would be my forest children characters who I still draw from time to time. From that point on, none of my ocs could be considered similar. But before then, me and my sister would make paper dolls (I’d have to get them out and take a look at them) but now I wonder if any of them might look similar to my current characters. I doubt it though- most of them were girls and I don’t have very many girl ocs.

I don’t really think of the paper dolls or random doodles I've made as ocs because they were never named or given backstories. But I suppose, technically, they are still “Original Characters “

[Leyelle]

I have a LOT of old characters of both genders and I probably have at least one that looks like most of my characters now that I think about it. But originality is a good thing. that fact that none of your OCs look similar might just mean you have a lot of ideas

[kyupol]

Mara-Nina... my waifu when I was 15...

Now I'm older, I still got waifus obviously have similar look

[AmysGames]

A lot of my childhood OCs are my current OCs.

That said, this one blew my mind: in the first comic I ever drew with Sanori (protagonist of my old comic, Aiiro No Kunoichi), there were some generic NPCs who were apparently supposed to be Sanori's friends. And even though the character didn't exist at the time, this girl with the pigtails is totally Mimi.

[NickRowler]

A lot of my OCs are from my childhood, at least my teen years that is. But if you go way back, I guess this character sort of looks like Ken.

[Leyelle]

oh yeah, I can see the similarity. was the original character's skin supposed to be yellow or was that an odd coloring incident XD?

[NickRowler]

I drew this as a little kid who only had a limited number of marker colors. I sometimes used yellow because that was the only option.

I redrew this back in 2014, and he just has a normal skin color. Also includes the character I cropped out…

[Leyelle]

Oh, it's cool to see how much the art improved, but yeah, I can related to limited colors. often times when I wanted to give characters brown skin they ended up being kind of odd shades of too vibrant or too dusty

[Oriflamme]

It is not that some of my old Ocs look the same, it is more that in some cases they are the same character.

I had the character of Ariel in my head for a long time, but the context and some of the details kept evolving. I completely reworked the universe 4 times, changed the power set twice, and the personality slowly shifted through all of this.

Funnily enough I think the more recent incarnation is a lot more “edgy”.

Old Ariel was someone who probably autistic with a rough childhood.

Modern Ariel is minutes aways from becoming a school shooter, and by the age of 6 already had skinned alive multiple people.

[Leyelle]

I've reworked a lot of childhood stories too. sometimes we come up with interesting ideas as kids that just need some adaptation or honing here and there