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Re: Writers: World-building and character designing

[(Anonymous)]

I've drawn maps, so I can sort of visualise how my place feels like and approximately how long it will take my character to walk from point A to point B and how point C is only a 6 hour ride from there again. I also have in mind the climate and flora (though I personally haven't spent much time thinking on the fauna as it haven't been relevant for my writing yet, though I probably should) I've just used photoshop or just drawing on paper for the maps. I also recently found an app for both Android and iOS called Sketchbook (from Autodesk) and the free version of that is pretty neat. I've even bought it for my iPad.

I can't really draw though, so I can't do that for my characters, at least not how their faces look and such. For that I mostly either write down facial features, hair, body type etc. or look up models. I could have used actors or other famous people, but that throws me off personally as I just get reminded of said famous person, so fairly unknown models are better in that regard. http://www.supermodels.nl/ is good for this when it comes to women as there are a wide range of models on there. I've also tried photomanips to get somewhat of the look I want, but I'm not too good at that either.

I also personally like to look to history to get a gist of how things people did without technology X and things like that, though without making my entire universe pseudo-medieval. Just stealing a couple of elements and ideas from era A and some others from era B. I am a huge history geek though so I just think this kind of research is fun. (Like, I have a book on underwear in Britain from the middle ages and until the 1900-somethings just for writing reasons). I also like looking at fashion to get inspiration.