User blog comment:BurningHype/Common Ideas and Creativity Guide/@comment-10380701-20150106141523

An interesting way to develop an OC is to start with other aspects instead of creating their face first.

Like, start with the weapon, then work your way from there. I have a weapon guide for that.

Another way of developing an OC is to split their personalities based on your own. Like, almost all of my OCs are directly based on a fragment of who I am.

Once you got that personality down, inflate it to stupid proportions and then start adding details around that. It's like making a snowflake.

Once you run out of 'pieces' of yourself, start inverting them. (ie the exact opposite of your positive trait) and work on that.

You have the foundation for the basic personality of your character, now choose his/her alignment to expand on that. Once you're there, you can choose to add personality quirks. At least three would suffice.

With that in mind, you can start conceptualizing how your OC looks like based on the foundations you start with. This is generally for people who has some trouble with drawing, as it allows them to compensate with some quality writing.