Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-14138255-20130809144315/@comment-7622429-20131014164236

Pyrrhomaniac wrote:

I'm not exactly a great artist either, but the thing with description, certain dimensions, shapes, and colors cannot be described effectively and will not be as good as a sketch or something, so when the artist goes on to make the official illustration, it may be different from what you thought or expected. Its also probably significantly less convenient for the artist (visualizing an image from a description is likely to be more susceptible to inaccuracy than if there is a rough sketch already to base it on).

But then again, if you do not mind degree of accuracy too much, I guess a desciption will work if you really really hate/suck at drawing.

Well,we better make sure to tell any interested artists about how most of the characters are also partially based off of our avatars' visual themes. It's not exactly the same,but some of the same physical principles are similar to the actual appearances of the respective user's character.