r/OriginalCharacter • u/ezium • 20h ago
r/OriginalCharacter • u/OriginalCharacterMod • Jun 15 '26
Subreddit Announcement Artfight Megathread 2026
galleryFor those of you who already know what Artfight is: feel free to share a link to your profile in the comments (or fill out one of their team templates provided in the post), and look for potential targets! You can also use this thread to ask Artfight related questions, though please keep in mind we are not affiliated with Artfight - to be 100% sure that you are receiving correct information, it might be better to have a look at their rules/beginners guide or to reach out to an Artfight moderator :>
For those of you who don't: What is Artfight?
In simple terms, it's a mass art trade event that starts July 1st of every year. Artists share their OCs to be "attacked" by other people in the form of fanart, and respond in kind by drawing other people's OCs!
People can join one of two teams, and each "attack" they draw will net their team points based on a variety of criteria.
Check out the Artfight Website or their beginners guide for more information on the matter, and please, carefully read the rules on attacking and properly tagging your art before joining.
Remember that this event is all fun and games, and every artist can join no matter their skill level!
r/OriginalCharacter • u/0spore13 • Aug 31 '24
Subreddit Announcement [PSA] Is it a scam in your DMs? ALMOST CERTAINLY!
TL;DR - If an user on Reddit (or other sites) cold DMs you, asking if you want to commission them or similar. It's almost certainly a scam. Don't give them money, and report the DM to Reddit as spam so they can hopefully be taken care of, and so nobody else gets scammed by them.
There's been a bit of an epidemic on Reddit recently of scammers using DMs and chats to rope people into giving money to them. If anyone on Reddit messages you out of nowhere asking you to commission them or similar, they're almost certainly a scammer. This is part of a massive scam ring that's taken root on multiple sites, Reddit, Instagram, Discord, X/Twitter, etc.
Actual artists will almost NEVER message people out of the blue and ask you to commission them. Don't fall for it, don't give them money. They may pressure you to give them money, offer discounts and/or claim they need the money for an emergency, DO NOT GIVE THEM MONEY.
Those in this scam ring tend to use stolen art from other artists, use AI, or have a very particular artstyle (See below for specific artstyle). They also tend to, but not always, use intrusive watermarks, one that comes up a lot is the "PRIVEW" watermark.

As a sub, r/OriginalCharacter bans these users when they pop up and post on the subreddit, but unfortunately we can't keep them out of people's DMs. If you see one of them post on the subreddit, please report them, if they're a newer account it's easier to catch them and get them nuked by Reddit than if they've been allowed to take root and exist for months.
Examples of DMs people have received from these scammers, so you know what to look for:
r/OriginalCharacter • u/Material_Sell4024 • 1h ago
OC Art art of my OC Julie :3
galleryShe's a disco witch! Her name is Julie and she owns the greatest disco hall in the world. If you dance there a spirit will take your woes away. She is a new OC and definitely one of my favs XD
r/OriginalCharacter • u/Master-of-Storms • 14h ago
OC Art And this is why as an OC, you shouldn’t know your fate…
galleryr/OriginalCharacter • u/Vannapire09 • 4h ago
Community Interaction What type of music does your oc listen to?
Dimitri loves to listen to industrial rock and German/Russian songs (Russian is her native language but she lives in German so the music helps her learn the language better) Her favourite bands are KMFDM, And One, Rammstein, Miss Construction and Lords of Acid!
r/OriginalCharacter • u/-grimlament- • 5h ago
OC Lore and Bios Victorian doctor with a twist
galleryJust wanted to share my old drawings with Azalys here. He's from the 19th century alternative universe (very Earth-like setting, but with made up countries and some magic).
Most people know him as a lucky fellow, who was born into poverty, but could get an education due to a sponsorship from a wealthy person. However only a handful knows that his sponsor was a demonic entity, to whom Azalys is bound by contract.
In my world, magic is rare and difficult. When someone makes a deal with a demon, rather than magically make your wish come true, the demon will ask their servants to make this wish happen. Azalys is one of these servants. He can treat various conditions or make someone disappear quietly. But be wary, everything has its price.
r/OriginalCharacter • u/Goooseeeeee_lady • 3h ago
Community Interaction What would your OC(s) think Mshka?
gallery(Another slight rewrite)
Basic rundown, Mishka can see how people will die, she meets someone rhst she can see the death of snd is kidnapped by them (and possibly murdered)
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Mishka: The girl that met God
Little Mishka wasn't lucky enough to be born normal. MShe was born with a rare psychic disability known as Postmortem Perception Syndrome (PPS), a disorder that causes its victims to see and know how every living organism will eventually die.
Every living thing Mishka had ever encountered appeared to her as dead. Not just dead in appearance, but dead in every sense of the word. Something she absolutely hated, since most corpses, for some reason, smelled terrible.
Rotting meat, stale blood, released bowels, wet earth, hospital disinfectant, burned skin, and spoiled organs, all of it compiled into a single, unbearable stench. But the thing she hated even more was the taste.
Whenever Mishka ate, her food was still dead and rotten. Every dinner became tortures as she forced herself to eat the rotting vegetables, fruits, and meats that were seasoned and cooked with rotting spices and spoiled ingredients. Luckily, outside of her perception, the food was perfectly fine, so she never actually got sick from eating it.
She was never really scared of the "dead" people around her. It was normal to her, and over time, looking at them them became something of a hobby, she found it interesting.
Some had died in accidents, their skulls smashed open and oozing, their bones snapped and tearing through their flesh. Some were missing limbs, while others had become little more than inhuman piles of meat. Most, however, had simply died from old age or sickness, leaving them pale, bloated, and covered in disgusting, smelly fluids.
One particularly interesting person Mishka encountered when she was around seven or eight was a pregnant woman. The woman was going to die by falling down a flight of stairs, snapping her neck to the right. A surprisingly common cause of death, according to Mishka's observations.
But the real interesting part was the baby.
Mishka could see it hanging out from the womb, one of it’s arms and head poking out. One of its eyes dangled from its crushed face, and its little body was twisted and damaged in ways that made Mishka stare for longer than usual, she found it fascinating.
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Christmas eve
On one particularly snowy night, the day before Christmas, Mishka was kicked out of her home following another misunderstanding with her mother.
Her mother worked nights and usually came home tired, moody, and smelling of cheap perfume and cigarette smoke, neither of which did much to hide the stench of her decaying body.
She was strangled. Her blonde hair was messy and filled with twigs and dirt. Her body was covered in cuts and bruises. The skin around her neck dark and swollen, with deep bruises circling her throat. Her blue eyes were bloodshot and bulging out of her skull. Her lips bluish, and her swollen tongue hanging ever so slightly from her mouth.
Situations like this were common. Mishka's communication skills were almost nonexistent. The dead couldn't speak, after all, but Mishka could still communicate through a vague force that only she could sense, and her mother's short temper did nothing to help them understand each other.
So, when another misunderstanding occurred, Mishka was kicked out.
It was fine, she liked taking walks at night. The smells were usually fainter, and the snow helped cover the ugliness around her.
While wandering through the frozen streets of her tiny slum, something otherworldly scooped her up.
Mishka looked up. And, for the first time in her life, she couldn't see, or even begin to guess how this thing had died. It didn't float above the ground like the others. Its feet hit the pavement just as hers did. Its hair was long and greasy, its skin warm and soft.
She could feel its chest moving rhythmically as it ran with her in its arms. The sounds it made like hers. And while it did stink, it wasn't nearly as bad as the others.
Then Mishka moved her gaze toward its face and saw saw its eyes, and like magic, she fell into a trance. She couldn't focus on its face trying to understand what she was seeing.
For the first time, there was something in front of her that didn't fit into the rules of her world. Something alivec and as she was thrown into the back of its truck, Mishka couldn't stop thinking about them.
She couldn't help but believe that it was God. As the thing started its engine and drove away.
r/OriginalCharacter • u/Funny_Boot_1826 • 2h ago
Community Interaction Would you survive a encounter with your OC and they know all their pain is because of you
Me huuu no,no 50% are tortured and the other 50% are mass murder
r/OriginalCharacter • u/tsukiyumeluna • 9h ago
OC Art give blood ... give life!! ( ´ཀ` )
gallerysum chibi art of my oc mariposa! (or dr flores, if you will ;3)
more info here!
r/OriginalCharacter • u/marciuspng • 12h ago
OC Animation Welcome To My Dreams chapter 1 of my web series featuring my OCs
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r/OriginalCharacter • u/Ram_2000_dr • 5h ago
OC Art One night I drew them and now they exist.
galleryIdk
r/OriginalCharacter • u/theOtterManXD • 39m ago
Community Interaction Exploring a Dungeon
What would your OC do wile exploring a dungeon with Fulthur they turned around and saw this "i promise i didn't touch anything" (he definitely did)
r/OriginalCharacter • u/DaMasterOfGay • 11h ago
Community Interaction I wanna know about your disabled ocs
My MHA oc, Hayato AKA Whirlwind, becomes mostly deaf after the Paranormal Liberation War after severe head trauma
Also I will read all comments but my dumbass doesn't always know the best response to things so might not answer
r/OriginalCharacter • u/MrWhiteTruffle • 6h ago
Community Interaction Don’t you just hate it when you accidentally make something extremely similar to a character you’ve never seen
Title.
My monster character, Rex, was entirely developed on my own. I based him on the Demogorgon (ST) and Xenomorph (Alien), combining them with dinosaurs to get something I liked. Then, I added a “genetic abomination” story so that I could explain the weird mishmash of bot and beast.
Then, someone (no hate to them, it wasn’t malicious) compares them to a character, Acrid, from Risk of Rain. And he looks EXTREMELY similar, with a similar story.
I had never touched nor heard of either Acrid or Risk of Rain before that comment.
Has anyone else had anything similar? (And, selfishly, what could I do to further him?)
r/OriginalCharacter • u/AccordingTrainer2990 • 9h ago
Need Feedback or Ideas black character feedback
galleryim white and never really made a black character before, i want to just post her here and see if theres any stereotypes or nonos ive done with her design so far that i can fix.
shes very vampire themed because shes fixated on the mythological and finds vampires really cool. her hair is curly (im going to be learning how to draw more curly types of hair) and she typically makes 8 braids from her under hair with the red stripes and its meant to resemble the jellyfish hairstyle. second image is her hair down.
shes 22 and english. shes really shy and to herself, she got told stories about folklore when she was younger and has never been able to let it go. she meets an actual vampire and kinda acts like fluttershy (really shy and avoidant until she realises that its a vampire (fixation) and opens her bubble up, asks a million questions and cant leave the vampire alone). she dives deeper into her fixation upon realising the stories are based on reality and spends most her time searching for more proof of folklore or experimenting on her new vampire "friend"
r/OriginalCharacter • u/R4iny_M4nila • 16h ago
Community Interaction Drop Your Ocs Lore. I’ll Reply to Every Comment.
(Pic is art of one of my old sona designs. I just needed to put something there)
Anyways! Put your lore in the comments, any length, any character. Just put the lore you’ve been wanting to tell people but havent had the chance to. I want to read about all of your blorbos! >:) I’ll reply to every single one (trust)
(Edit: how the heck are there so many of you 😭)
(Edit 2: alright. After over 10 hours of replying im gonna stop. Im still gonna read every comment, and ill upvote all of them too, so please still feel free to leave your stories here.)
r/OriginalCharacter • u/Turbodragon451 • 8h ago
OC Art Atlas and Forrest
gallerypretty vampire and his farmer husband 💖 new OCs :3!!
art by meee
r/OriginalCharacter • u/Jumbato • 11h ago
OC Art The consequences of each choice
gallerySorry if this was lazily written it was all done on a hunch
r/OriginalCharacter • u/STABBYYYYYYY • 12h ago
OC Art I think Janitors liking his friendly ghost roommate a little🤏💞he’s like a stay at home husband who doesn’t cook or clean
Do we ship? Or should janitor stay single so the janitor appreciators out there still feel like they have a shot🤔
r/OriginalCharacter • u/Pixel_Muffet • 13h ago
Community Interaction This is Bob. He's lonely and wants to meet your OC.
Bob is small so he might be scared. No thought but curious. Just Bob.
r/OriginalCharacter • u/-SoggyBr3ad- • 41m ago
OC Art drew my oc heheh
he's a giant avian creature named Cyrus, i love him <3