Faceclaim Preference?

I'm an illustrator/comic artist, so I prefer to draw my own--no FC is exactly "right", anyway, so I don't really feel that attached to them. I've never minded a mix of both--whatever works for folks. I don't take the FC as like, a 1:1 representation of the character anyway. I have noticed that a lot of sites/people are really strict about it though, which is interesting to me considering my mind does not work that way at all. I actually find THAT more off-putting than anything else... Since the primary mode of expression is the written word, I just don't know why it should matter that much.

 

By far the real life fc community is leaps and bounds larger than the animanga community. The animanga community has also vastly moved to jcink sites within the past few years, and hardly any remain on proboards nowadays. I actually see more real life sites on proboards than animanga. I prefer either animanga fcs or original artwork, myself. I can do real life fcs, but I prefer not to.

 

I prefer RL face claims in almost all my writing. Even when playing comic characters I'll choose an actor/model playby to represent them since getting a real face attached to the character is a pretty vital part of character creation/development for me, the choice is less for my partner or the site at large and more for me developing my own connection to the character. The only real exception to this are monstrous and fantasy races where the amount of photoshop to make things 'realistic' takes away from the feel and magic of the character, but even then I tend to prefer realistic art rather than anime styles. It is beautiful though so I totally understand the allure.

 

I prefer face claims that are drawn/painted. But I can go almost any which way on them, depending on my interest.

 

I used to hate having to pick a real person as a face claim, much preferring to use art or straight physical descriptions. However as the years went on I got used to the majority of sites requiring real person face claims, and now it's made some aspects of profile creation easier/more streamlined, requiring less fields, and less chance of copyright issues (usually). Also can help find a voice for your character.

 

real life 100%

 

I find it easier to use a real life face claim

 

Real life face claims always.

 

i'm all for anime and manga faces. ive done RL faces before but its a bit harder to find a RL face claim sometimes because that said actor or actress might be claimed by someone else!

 

I don't really get the whole face claim thing, but then again, I'm old school, and just write up a narrative description of what my character(s) look like.

 

I only do strictly real face claims. Anime/cartoon faces are weird to me.

And don't get me started on AI faces. I'm no stranger to using Artbreeder to make "renders" of my own characters, but when you think of it like that--that means I'm making these AI images that closely resemble their real life counterpart, which could mean deepfakes galore. And deepfakes give me the ick.

 

I prefer real life face claims! I think there's something about seeing a photo that helps me visualize, but I think I also just got used to that over time.

 

I prefer not to use faceclaims at all, roleplay in my opinion is supposed to be a written artform, so I would prefer to have character descriptions over pictures, though if i have to choose, I'm going to say art-based.
In fact, I've commissioned an artist recently to do a pic for one of my OCs

 

I prefer real life FCs and would probably struggle if I had to find art. It's interesting to compare to a friend of mine, who prefers anime because it presents the details they need: hair and eye color, age, common outfit, attitude, etc. It's a very different view, whereas I see anime more plain and less detailed, and the real life FCs filling in those details for me.

Doesn't really matter to me what I'm looking at when someone else writes with their FC though, anime or real or art or mood, so long as it fits the character.

 

I used to be into real life face-claims but have started getting more into drawn and anime style face-claims.

 

I prefer real life faceclaims. I don't like the thought of using another artist's work for my characters so heavily like that, it makes me uncomfortable as an artist myself. I also just really struggle to connect with anime. I've only ever done real life faceclaims and it's likely all I'll ever do.

That said, I'm an illustrator. I could join an art site without ethical questions. I make art of my characters almost constantly to fit how I truly see them. But I can't bring myself to use it as my official stuff for them since I'm not going to expect anyone to be spending money commissioning their characters on my site (from me or otherwise) or draw their own. So, real life faceclaims is the best way to go for me.

Please don't take this as judgement on those who do use art and anime, it's all part of the scene! I don't look down on it, I just don't like it for myself.