What inspired your idea?

[ViktorGrim]

Sometimes it's music. I've a fantasy trilogy inspired, somehow, by Amaranth by Nightwish. (Later, Amaranthine by Amaranthe influenced it because the feel & message in the song was already in the story. It scrolled across my YT suggested.)

Sometimes it's a what if. I've a dark anti-hero novel in the works inspired by the "what if there was a story about a true sociopath falling in love and learning to deal with it?".... Don't ask why super heroes genre was what this one wound up in.

Sometimes it's from a show or manga I like. I've finished an epic-length work that started off as what was supposed to be a series of one shots based on the ideas presented in Monster Musume.

Then of course there's the D&D games. I've never made a story based around a D&D game, but I've used characters inspired by characters at my sessions. I'm a bit of a world builder, something I started doing a lot when I became the regular DM for my old group... Usually something will spark an idea, a thought, or I'd lament over something I wanna see in a setting... And then i'd make it. After I flesh the setting out to my satisfaction, I sit back and just start seeing what stories can play out in it.

[sekabead]

I'm actually aspiring to be a game creator someday. A Big RPG one. So one day I was just doodling around.
"Hey, let's draw some gorgeous character. For boss battle."
"Umm... octopus monster seems like fantastic!"
"Well, let's draw some kind of eerie demonic looking lord of underworld"
"Great, some kind of centaur to accompany them..."
"...."
"Hmmm..."
"You know what, let's throw them into a middle school. With overgrown teenagers."

So that's how Just Usual Days born

[GabiWolf]

It was a slow day at work and me and a co-worker we’re discussing how one could put body parts in the book drop. Then we continued on with other Library related mysteries and I though...what if there was a Library where weird things and magical stuff always happens and it’s part of the staff job to rail in magical artifacts and make sure powerful books don’t get into the wrong hands?

Thus a causal conversation about murder turned into, Grimoire Athenaeum.

[K-Rexo_Deactivated]

My [robot] character was created sometime in 2014 as [supposedly] a Disney character; it was an effort to bring back Zoog Disney. One of my brothers told me that "it wouldn't be a good idea to pitch your character to Disney" for private reasons.

Next year after that, I wanted to create a talk show host that would talk to characters from third-parties. My young brother drew the character for me, and I copied what the character looked like from the drawing onto PowerPoint. I later gave my talk show host a revamp, consisting of a blended Simpsons-South Park art style. It was planned that the show would be taken to Warner Bros. Television and Universal Television. I've chosen to give up on pitching the show to those two because it was hard to get in the TV Cartoon industry and it was hard avoid the political stances that Hollywood's been using.

Earlier this year, I wanted to make my series an Independent cartoon web-series. But I decided that making a web-comic is a good way to go before making the cartoon web series.

The result: Kärumtoo: Worldwide Sheriff

Jenny Wakeman meets Stan Smith (minus the politics).

And surprisingly enough, it's different from all the other web-comics in here.

[Okaishy]

I get these bursts of inspiration, and if I'm completely honest I have no idea where they could even come from! I feel like the more I write the easier it becomes. ^_^

[Lamina]

Playing a 90s point and click adventure game, and wanted to make a comic with the same fomat (my art style has mostly changed, but some of the early stuff I did was also in the art style of an old adventure game).

[tchotchkeco]

I was playing a video game and kept getting mad at my character for constantly getting addicted to drugs. That ended up sparking the first ideas for Detox.

[hannahlaine]

It started in grade school, we read a mid summers night dream by Shakespeare. I fell in love with the idea of fae. My obsession grew from there. I began reading books about the fae and faeries. Those books are what inspired me to write my own novel

Lady Death | Tapas

[Maps]

That happened to me a lot at the start of my story writing! I’d just get these bursts of inspiration and ideas would just form.