Does anyone have tips for creating character personalities?
Do you base them on people you know
Or are they completely random?
How would I show personality traits through the drawings?
Are there easy ways to create personality?
Please help. I need tips and advice.
May '19
May '19
Hmmm I decide their roles in the story. What they need to do to make things happen, and then I start to work around this.
I recomend taking a look at the 12 Jung's Archetypes, they're really usefull to organize the main roles in your story.
I have always learned that a character is a person that wants something, Badly.
That’s how I create them.
What is it they want, badly?
Then it just kind of writing itself.
Hope this Would help you.
Use your own personality and split it into traits. Develop each trait into an individual character. The dialogue practically writes itself. 
I use the personality of the people I meet in real life such as my friends or my family. Also sometimes I like using the characters personality from anime that I watch. So I think you could watch movies or read books~ Or you could even use hair color personality! Like red hair characters get angry easily, black hair are mysterious types, and pink hair usually have the unexpected duel personality, or dark blue for the clam type. It's up to you!
Well I personally think of their background. Who was their father? A rich mayor? Make your character is a spoiled little shit. How big was their family? Which kid are they? Maybe because they were the oldest kid in a poor household with a lot of children so they forced themselves to grow up. Stuff like that, after all, it's our background that forms our personality, it doesn't come out of nowhere.
Same! My characters are basically my version of Inside Out! One thing that I did use to define them was how they deal with stress. Like Destiny reads novels to ignore her own problems. Reaver acts more outragous the more stressed she is, trying to cover up her feelings of insecurity. Keira becomes more hermit like, hiding her feeling so she won't bother the others. Balin researches the problem, hoping to solve it no matter what.
My characters are designed usually based on questions. Like how Jensrichard77 stated but more world/themed focused (ex: what if our moon blew up?). Then following the domino effect of that (ex: what people would be pro/against moon explosion?).
A great foundation is using the Meyers Briggs personality traits if you need help establishing round characters.
Also, I posted a 4 part Character Development Craft talk under novels that may have information that could help.
I make personalities based on the role a character has in the story. I always feel it's good for the MCs to have varying personalities that can be categorized as flexible and inflexible. Supporting characters' personalities are based on what I need to show the MC's personality.
For me... this is a difficult question. I never really give my characters a personality. They just kind of... happen.
usually it's just i imagine the kind of people i want to be, or aspects of my personality,
and then I give them a background, using their past to add or subtract personality traits,
and then, to top it all off, I keep in mind one sentence or action that would break them,
and everything else just falls into place.
I bring the character into my mind and talk to them. Why do they like? Don't like? I imagine how they react to things. And their personality grows from there.
Maybe it doesn't matter as much what system you use so long as you have a system. In one of my favorite movies, Project A-ko, the main characters are based upon the personality traits of the different blood types. Yeah, in Japan there is an old belief that blood type determines personality which makes no more or less sense to me than personality based upon astrological signs.
In Alien Fiction, I use the signs of the Chinese Zodiac as my starting point. The rabbit sign is supposed to be sentimental and fun to be around, My rabbit character is a greatly exaggerated version of these traits.
She is also a mirror of my own extrovert side. The system didn't need to strictly define the character, just provide a starting point. The reason we use a system is so the characters come off as being diverse and not the same character in different skins.
Honestly, what I do is take two characters from random series, fuse them together, and figure out what would be their psychological center.
I find the more you know about a character and the history of the character the better you know them.
I write myself a profile and history of them to help me flesh them out and understand them a bit more
