When do you post a new character?

My choice is kind of combining between 'whenever I stop being lazy' and 'finally draw their 'good' portrait once'. (good means non-chibi with full paintery-ish shading and I have like, thirty OCs who are stuck in this process. They got everything ready EXCEPT their portraits because I procrastinate like a world champion.   )

Even so, there are still several OCs I have yet to upload to TH although I already have a few art piece of them because I'm really lazy at writing their history section. When I make a profile for an OC on TH, I like to make it as complete as possible, which means their history needs to be written at the same time I upload them. This is especially exhausting for Hetalia-inspired OCs because it means I have to write a summary of several hundreds to over a thousand years of history in one go.   

Mostly I wait until I have at least one drawing and their backstory figured out. I'm kinda lazy when it comes to writing out my bios, but as long as I know enough about that character to know what I'm going to write once I do finally get around to it, then that's usually when I'll post a character. 

I do have one character who I uploaded a bit prematurely. He's still in development, but I have his backstory mostly figured. Right now his bio is just a bunch of bullet points. I guess I just don't want their profiles to be empty. 

I want to say I post them as soon as I have a full description but most of the time I can't wait and post them when I have reference art of them <:3

It takes me approximately 30 minutes to fill out an entire character bio but 4234 years to draw art for them, so I have a big stock of characters I have but who need a new design and better art first rip. I feel really pressured to have art and PROPER art for my OCs on TH considering how art oriented this site is and I live for external validation 

As soon as they're definitely mine! I can come up with names on the spot, so no worries on not knowing a name for them.

As soon as I get it! TH is basically a storage/organization box for myself, and anyway I don't rly like it when ppl read my profiles go awayyyyyyy

When they have at least one piece of art (including the ref if I buy the design), a name, a role in some story or universe, and I have some basic idea of their background and personality.

If it's a project character or one that's really in the works, I have them hidden/private until I can get the name, design, and general feel of them done first before making them public (and at least a good profile to start with as well). I don't really like looking at very empty character profiles, so I try not to do that too much myself. It also matters, to me, to have at least one photo for reference in the gallery to start with. :)

I post adopts immediately, just so that I don't lose them. For my own characters, I basically just draw a headshot whenever I have time and then smash out a paragraph, label it 'wip', and come back later to finish it properly. I don't know if this is necessarily the best method, but for me it's the most fun. Most of the OCs I post here are at least 10 years old and have absolutely endless heaps of information, so I really enjoy pulling a couple facts off the top of my head to try and describe them as succinctly as possible.

Thankfully all my OCs havepopped in mind at different times so I can kind of figure where I want them. I wrote down some profile on a document along with some decent art ,I usually have my profile filled out more and it is easier to do that than find inspiration for art a lot of times.

Just whenever I stop being lazy, come up with a design, or got one as a custom from someone

Generally I prefer to post a profile when I’m ready to work on it, so that means a complete (or mostly complete) profile, and at least one image. But sometimes I’ll post a profile even if I don’t have any images, especially if I’m inspired to work on all their info. I just make it private or authorized until I get an image.

Conversely, I’ll also post profiles if I have art (usually adopted designs), but no story or info yet. I try to stick a sentence or two with my idea in the profile, at least.