User blog comment:Kaeldradragon/New OC?/@comment-10233964-20150722180848

Hey!

I do not know your OCs or why they cause drama, but I can tell you, how you could make a cool OC. Just follow this rules

1. Choose a monster parent First and most importand step. There are many OCs where already this step was made wrong. Murderers, Meanies and so on are no monsters. They are Normies. And the only Normies who are goot parents are mad scientist, geeks, alchemists and other crazy ppl who create monstrous life.

Also try to not pick monsters like vampires or werecats - there are enough already. BUT if you want to create one, follow the second rule:

2. No relatives to Canons, especially siblings. That would not be an imaginative OC.

3. If you have your monster parent/ monster origin...go over to wikipedia and read. You don't have to read everything, but the part on how they are said to look alike and what powers and weakness they have and maybe even where they usually were seen can help you with the design as well as with the flaws.

4. The Character A good mix between good and bad characteristics. If your character is too perfect or to imperfect, it's a so calles mary-sue/gary stu, what makes the OC boring~

5. The Design Try not to use bases, try to draw something by yourself! Even if it's not perfect, you will gain experience and get better over the time. If you use bases, this will not happen. But If you use a base anyway, then try to put some time in the hair and the clothes and don't make some strokes here and there to betoken clothes~

And thats everything. If you follow this rules everything is fine :)