Yes Toyhouse fam, I bit the bullet and re-organized my character folders!!!!

I've been whinging about whether I should keep my characters organized by species (as I had been doing) or by story for a while now. But the more time I've spent browsing galleries on Toyhouse, the more I've come to seek others' characters that are part of stories, rather than just great designs. And I'm a person who wants to do things in a way that I'd like them to be done for me. Hence, the inevitable restructuring. 

NOW if you go to my gallery, you'll be greeted by a bunch of folders for different stories and different worlds! Please delve into them and read the summaries I've put together for each story. Let me know which ones sound interesting to you! 

If you're feeling real generous with your time, I'd love a question about a story/world/character... as a treat <3

Hi all! Hope you guys had a fun Art Fight if you participated <3

People use Toyhouse for all different things. For me, I use it as a place to store information about my characters that feature in my stories, as well as one-off designs that I've either made or adopted. The other main thing I do on Toyhouse is participate in the I Want To See a Character Who... forum game. I've been part of this forum game for as long as I've used the site. It's a great outlet for someone who likes to go, "Oh, me! Me!" when someone brings something up that I relate to XD

Lately I've been browsing the Service Reviews section of the forum. Reading personal drama is a guilty pleasure of mine. It's why I love sites like Not Always Right (aka the Bad Customer Stories site) so much. The intensity of the drama on Service Reviews fluctuates a lot. There are legitimate grievances to air, and unethical or unprofessional business practices to expose, but there are just as many threads decrying an artist for drawing something the OP doesn't like. 

Anyways, I wanted to ask, do you use the Toyhouse forums? And how do you use it? Let me know!

UPDATE: It's over! I'll be adding the images I got to Toyhouse soonish.

Guess I'm doing this again! You can find my profile here!

When a cool character catches my eye on Toyhouse, I like to go to their page, read about them, and see their galleries. I'm also curious about that character's story. If they're part of a larger narrative, what's it about, and what's their role in it?

That made me reflect on the way my characters are organized. Right now, I have my OCs separated into folders based on their species: Anthro, Creature, Ghost and Human. This makes it easy for me to navigate the folders to find the character I want. But it doesn't give me a lot of room to describe how these characters all tie together (though I do have a piece in my Library for the Offsprings, I dunno how many people make the step to navigate to it). If the characters were organized by story, would that make learning about them more accessible to visitors?

Then again, this is MY account, and I'm the one who navigates it on a regular basis for forum games and the like. If it works for me, that should be the end of this discussion. 

Still, I'm curious what you guys think! When you're looking at a character on Toyhouse, do you want to know more about the story they're part of?

And let me know how you guys organize your folders, and why!

EDIT: Art Fight is over. Thanks to everyone who drew me something! I will be uploading the pieces I received shortly.

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I'm joining Art Fight this year! I'm on Team Bloom.

Here's my Art Fight page.

I dunno how many pieces I'll make (since I do have comics to work on) but I'll try to pick some characters for warm-ups.

Hiya Toyhouse...!

Though I update my characters with new art pretty frequently, I haven't posted a new bulletin in a long time. But I've got a question that I'd like to take to my subscribers.

Many of my OCs, especially from my main story universe, are quite old. Like, 10+ years old. But when I created their Toyhouse pages, I only posted recent art I had done, leaving a huge backlog of old art unposted. And since I'm not really using my tumblr anymore, AND because you can create subgalleries within a character's gallery, I think now might be a good time to add that old art back.

But it would be a big time investment for art that is mostly out of date, design wise. SO... instead of putting my time towards uploading old art, I could put my time into uploading pages from my webcomic that showcase the characters. It would be a smaller # of characters who could receive additions to their galleries, but the art is more recent and also it's from my active comic (you should read it fyi).

Either of these things would be a time investment. But would one be more worth my time than the other? Answer the poll and let me know! Thanks!

I have a webcomic and I think anyone who enjoys what they see here will enjoy my comic!

HEROES OF THANTOPOLIS is an all-ages Fantasy Action/Adventure story. When 12-year-old Cyrus arrives in the City of the Dead without his memories, the only thing he is sure of is that he's alive. But rather than send him back to the Land of the Living, Queen Helene decides to make use of his unexpected arrival. As the Queen's Champion, Cyrus fights to banish three evil ghosts bent on taking over the city. His adventures take him through a world of mystery, history and magic along with a group of ghostly friends. But was Cyrus's arrival in the city random, or is there more to his story than it seems...?

SOME THINGS ABOUT THE COMIC THAT MIGHT CATCH YOUR INTEREST:

• There's over 200 pages of the comic already posted, and it updates consistently on Mondays and Thursdays
• The protagonist, Cyrus, is aromantic and asexual, and so are all the ghosts and spirits.
• There's a lot of pop culture referenced throughout, including music, recent history, books, video games, ect. 
• It's kid friendly, so you can show it to your younger siblings or relatives
• A strong myth arc drives the comic, and each chapter adds onto the story line in an episodic fashion
• The art and writing are both realy good (and I have people's words to back that up)
• It's in the vein of TV shows like Steven Universe and Adventure Time, minus the filler

So check it out! Yeah!