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Only two, Clister and Klay.
And I guess the reoccurring news broadcaster makes three.
I may introduce one more character later.

Nah, “Ever” would be unfathomable :skull: I draw August A LOT. For no reason. I just love drawing him.

Actually idk if I love drawing him, but I do love it when he is drawn XD
His hair is kinda tricky and I always draw his head too big :cry_swag:

August has been in 48 panels so far! There’s only 11 panels he hasn’t been in lol.

Dude I tried to be the creator doing all the practice sketches and stuff, but I got impatient and started a bit before I was ready. To be fair, when are we ever ready?

It depends on your goal.

There are styles that are not possible to achieve without training & theory

The good thing is that everyone has their own goals and has to judge that for themselves
+ there are some things which you can get better at by trial and error

I feel ya. I had some artistic training long before I started drawing, but I was new to drawing on a tablet(slippery and small size, and was using Ibis/Medibang), so I just bulldozed through my first few episodes. (my first ep took around 16 hours to finish, 8 hours of coloring). I actually was doing it just for me, no intention of publishing until about a few years later, just to see what would happen. My practice now is to just let the comic be the practice, and it's apparent when I hadn't drawn in a while, which is fine. It's my first comic, but it also feels like a personal art timeline/journal. It grows/improves with me, and that's worth starting, even if you don't feel like you're ready.

(I just noticed the profile pic change, I like it<3)

those currently in comic
Main are brothers Evan and Owen Moriarty
Certain Threat: The Big Creature and FPS guy
Potential Threat: Big Wolf
Infected Types: Piggles the Pig, Infected Humans
Potential Comrade: Xun (currently only as a voice via walkie)

Support: Evlyn Moriarty (mom)
Minor: Evan's bandmates/buds (Ben, Fiddy, Andre), Neon Moriarty (baby brother), Doland Moriarty (dad)
Some pro-wrestler character appearances on background props but left it a mystery if they actually show up XD
Super minor: The two officers who got infected, about 5 civilians who got infected

Lots of characters eventually show up as series evolves into a battle royale, and various animals like seals, deer, bats etc that also get infected.

Not a lot—well, none, since it's not up yet. :joy: :see_no_evil: But I did draw the major characters from all three arcs as chibis the other day.

Summary

13 excluding the antagonists and tertiary characters, which'll bring the count up to 28.

I have never sat down and counted before...

Just counting named characters who have shown up in posted chapters, it appears there are 36 (I'm sure I'm forgetting some):

Iyu, Sanya, Aksana, Semchik, Dasha, Vasilij, Filipp, Artyom, Reskov, Rakhta, Pavel, Antosha, Irisha, Fedya, Nadya, Misha, Stiva, Grisha, Natalya, Mariya, Yelena, Lyubov, Ivan, Chabas, Vladimir, Sofya, Nikolaj, Alyoshka, Oleg, Andrej, Olya, Liza, Agafya, Nestor, Afanasij, Grigorij.

As for important characters, I'd say there are about 9. Which sounds like a lot. But as for real main characters, there's really just one. Which sounds like not enough!

A main duo— (Rusty and West),

Four recurring side characters— (Tim, Cash, Charlie, and Mickey),

Four minor characters— (Ivy, Delilah, Arthur, and Sean).

That’s ten total. This isn’t counting pets, or background characters who don’t factor into the plot, although there are a lot of both, hahah.

In Psychoborg, the cast goes as follows...

  • Psychoborg
  • Astra
  • The Imperial Royal Family (Malai, Rebecca, Fau and Ira)
  • King Overlord
  • Highwulver
  • Castor
  • Oya
  • Tomara
  • Pen
  • Gemma
  • Luno (he is deceased, but still matters in the story)
  • and Carla

So in total, that is 15 characters. Wow.

19 days later

Doing a character count, besides protagonist Maor (he's probably in over 300 panels).

(Chapter 1~6)
Amin: 63 (+2 in covers)
Sanariya: 76 (+1 in cover)
Jen: 5 (+1 in cover)
Tery: 13
Bounder: 11
Flutist: 8 (+1 in cover)
Tudo: 23
Sanwi: 15
Sanghee: 9

Interesting that I drew turtle boy Tudo a lot even he's just a future small plot-trigger character. :kissing:
Sanariya currently is in more panels than Amin, (she'll be off a long while after chapter 6) but I'm sure Amin will surpass 80 in next chapter.

Only counting reoccuring characters I actually have a fairly small cast for my novel:

Alicia, Kattar, Mrs. Moon, and Shannon

with a few people who show up more than once:
Jun, Juana King, Exhausted Receptionist.

12 days later

classic fantasy:

tomboy bodybuilding acrobat calliope
the love child of sailor moon and arnold schwarzenegger angelo
and miss piggy on steroids

so three

the ghoul:

characters that are alive? like, two at this point, or something, I dunno

Just Claudita and Akala for major characters in AngHell Dela Blackpill. The rest are minor characters so far...

Three for Dragon Sparking. Won't count characters that haven't appeared yet.
-Rip
-Mystery camper
-Frost Giant

Cemetery Blossoms has six
- Hitodama /dino samurai
-Oboro
-four other hitodamas

The Last Reindeer has three
-Scared Elf
-Blitzen
-Hellsnö abomination

Dragon Sparking: Dino Orphan has the most named characters of anything I've done: eleven.
-Rip
-Freya
-Vykir
-Lurhilde
-Dawn
-Ronin
-Shirohoshi
-Arthur
-Shi-zu
-Bawnk
-Malachi
-A ton of henchmen

The original run of Dragon Sparking has quite a few but it's no longer available to read currently so it doesn't exist!