Jan 22, 2020, 3:38 PM

@Pyrephox said in PB 'realism':

I always make the text description first, then look for a PB that fits it - which often means doing a google image search for things like 'young woman freckles' or something. Even once I find a potential person, I try to find a picture that gets across the character - I've had PBs where I can only really use ONE image of them, because it fits the personality of the character, but none of the others do.

That said, I don't really care about other people's PBs, and will usually go from the written description. Anime or drawn PBs don't bother me at all, but doing nothing but linking a picture in your desc, or having some incredibly generic and unhelpful desc like 'this is a person' drives me up the wall.

I tend to go in the opposite direction; I'll make my character, but before describing them, I'll find a PB and then describe that with some minor details changed. I used to put much more effort into my descriptions when I was younger, so much so that I could never find a PB. Now I feel like I'm cheating, but I've also learned less is better in most cases as far as description, so keeping it short and sweet has been beneficial.