Technically this code is for adoptable wishlists, but I've also seen it used as character preferences, so I'm doing it more that way! For me this would not only be "art/designs I would want to buy," but ALSO "characters I'd like to draw/design," as with the case of art trades, art games, Art Fight...etc.
There's also the RP comfort meme I already did for roleplay-specific stuff. RP is a bit of a different beast, I feel.
GUIDE
❤ Favorite of all time!
☀ Strongly enjoy- ☁ Neutral or "depends"
✖ General avoidance
STYLE/COLORS
- ❤ Blue/gold/white; purple-to-yellow sunset gradient; black + any sort of "neon" colors; stark monochrome black/white
- Relatively big eyes; general expressiveness; multiple body types/facial features
- Both anime and western cartoon-esque styles; colored outlines; colorful highlights/shading
☀ Single color monochrome (like all red, all blue, etc.); full grayscale or mostly gray + one saturated color- General contrasting colors and some saturation; stylistic experimentation with brushes, effects, or colors
- '50s-'80s-era "nostalgic" art styles/designs
- ☁ Brown + pastels; greens + reds/oranges; purple/pink
- Art styles that are clearly copying an existing piece of media's art style--depends on what the media is.
✖ This is gonna sound weird but anything particularly excessive leaning into one style too much. TOO anime, TOO western comic book, TOO cartoony, etc.- Excessively "cutesy" to the point of looking infantalized
- Obvious low-effort shortcuts such as drawing eyes over hair, arms behind back, legs cut off at bottom, etc.
- Shading using transparent black only
SPECIES
- ❤ Humans, ghosts/souls inhabiting objects, androids/artificial humans, cats, rabbits, ferrets/weasels, "were"-creatures, half-human half-(scary thing); sentient zombies; (non-horror) dolls; Irish myths
☀ Humanoid or anthro-esque aliens. robots, cyborgs, AI, elves/fae folk, dinosaurs, dogs, horses, dragons, elementals/spirits, deities/demons, "colony" beings or parasites, vampires, golems, sentient locations, biblically accurate angels/eldritch beings; Greek myths- ☁ Other species kemonomimi & anthros, classic movie-era monsters, most other typical fantasy races, object heads; has two forms of some kind
✖ ALIEN aliens, MONSTERY monsters, kaiju, mechas, ferals; slimes/worms/blobs/simple shapes- Anything that feels like it was made to be outrageous and complicated just for the sake of looking unique.
THEMES/AESTHETICS
- ❤ Magic; science; the solar system; the 88 constellations; '90s/Y2K era; "mad scientist" (goofy); cyberpunk (both retrofuturistic and modern); sci-fantasy; twins/characters that come in "sets"; time/spacetime; outcasts of society; psychic powers/psychology; shadow vs light/chaos vs order; casino/magician/playing cards; glitches
☀ Horror (cute/goofy); electronics/computers/Windows 9x; general "outer space" themes; trauma; morally conflicted characters; chemistry/chemical elements; minerals; romance; space opera/classic sci-fi; post-apocalyptic; high fantasy; steampunk/Victorian; superhero; hallucinations/dreams/psychedelia; symbiotic relationships- The romanticized pop culture versions of cowboys, pirates, samurai, etc.; creepypasta (goofy/ironic)
- ☁ Light (actual) horror themes; chaos beings (depends on the level of "lolrandom"ness); "really 239486345 years old but looks 10" (HIGHLY depends on how sexualized such a character looks...☹️); flowers/nature/ocean
- Characters inspired LOOSELY by existing media franchises (like in palette, patterns, or in their species concepts, entirely depends on the media we're talking about)
✖ Extreme horror themes; "mad scientist" (edgy) (aka using mental illness to make a character "lol so crazy"); creepypasta (unironic)- Characters inspired directly & aesthetically by existing media franchises (direct references in their outfits/accessories, being AUs/genderbends of a canon character, etc. Nothing personal, just doesn't appeal to me)
ELEMENTS/CLOTHES
- ❤ Long tails/ears; pointy features; markings/patterns of some kind; floating or separatable heads/limbs; facelessness/surreal absence of features; scars/stitches; glowing elements; weird eyes/heterochromia; fangs (cute); artificial limbs (cybernetic or magical); big hair/wavy hair; androgyny
- Suits (fancy); ties; uniforms; kimonos; gloves; fancy jackets; the specific combination of hat/goggles/jacket; collar/scarf that blocks the mouth; polearms
☀ Visible joints or internal electronics; made out of artificial material; horns; spots or freckles; big noses or snouts; extra eyes; fangs (scary); blood; fluffiness/fluffy tails; weird hair color (fairly desaturated colors); "hair" that isn't hair (fins, leaves, wires, etc.); artificial limbs (prosthetic); glasses/goggles; gap tooth/chipped teeth; bowlcuts- Suits (ill-fitting with stupid patterns); "magical girl"/"idol"-style outfits; ridiculous '90s/'80s outfits; emo/goth/punk/grunge styles; bowties; hats; bandannas; fantasy armor; laser guns; swords
- ☁ Candy gore; weird hair color (saturated colors); fantastical limbs used as a species characteristic (like "this species has toolbox tools for fingers" etc. I'm not sure how to better describe this)
- Food (aesthetically as part of an outfit); bathingsuits; belts n' zippers
✖ Food (literally as part of a body); GORE gore; nudity or near-nudity- Something so overly complicated I can't tell where one accessory ends and another begins
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