Good, good. Keep doing that narration.

Well really, socking a tupper in the jaw isn't anything bad either, really. They could choose to not feel a thing, as it's all imaginary senses anyways. If that's your way of saying hi, then... Go ahead?

Drawing from life is awesome and it is what actually teaches you how stuff looks like. Like I've said earlier, realism is the only thing that isn't a style. Styles are applied on top of realism, so if your realism sucks, your stylistic drawings will also be off. But there's always other things you enjoy drawing more than the rest, so I for example wouldn't really enjoy drawing chairs either but living things like humans and animals, those would be awesome. Even if they're not really alive at that point anymore. A skull study would be cool too, just because I have this design that requires a cow skull-like head on a creature...

No need to feel awkward because of nudity, though. You Americans, stop giving us more stereotype fuel!

Give tupper Rapunzel hair, brush hair forever.

Finns never were vikings, so that's one point you lost there. You'll have to live with the mystery.

In your texting case, how many you send might be better than logging time. But if you actually talk or visualize and you have a possibility to time it, do so.

Your first responses could really happen in any possible way and there's no one set method, either. In my case, I guess I liked telling him to talk or asked him questions and then tried to clear my mind without you know, stopping everything from happening? It's funny, a similar method was told to me when I was starting out and I didn't understand it before I managed to actually get it to work. You don't want to be thinking too much or else you might overpower a faint voice, but you can't also forcibly stop every thought going on in your head or you might as well accidentally force the tupper quiet, too.

Though some people use a completely opposite method of filling their head with thoughts and seeing if they manage to hear something that's off and going from there. And it's also possible that the tupper isn't able to talk back to you right now.

Sure, sounds cool. And I'm sure you know a lot more. There's movies you have watched, cartoons you have liked, stuff you have played, things you have read. All of those are possible narration fodder. You're just shooting yourself in the foot by not thinking you have anything, but sorry to say... You haven't grown up in a bubble. You know more.

You're the one making it difficult. Just write it down, I bet that once you manage to get over your limitations, you'll make some faster progress. Really, you might have been called useless or worthless or good for nothing or something during your life one time too many, but that doesn't mean it's the truth. But you can make it the truth by listening to them and never trying again.

Not sure how much I could help anyone with colors, but you could post more in off-topic or something if you're really serious about it. Present us what you already know, maybe some colors you would like to use so we have something to start with.

Hey, I'd love to visit a Walmart. They're pretty big and full of stuff, aren't they? Don't have any around me, so I need one giant super store to window shop in. Be sure to hold your tupper's hand in public so you can start dropping spaghetti when you two move in a position where your hand should be held in an awkward position.

Though you could try reading and watching movies with a tupper, obviously. For narration purposes, it might be better to rewatch things you already have so you don't get too distracted by it, if you're very into it. You might also want to put something to remind yourself of the tupper somewhere you can see or feel it, so you'll remember.

Certainly did do a good amount of personality forcing back in the day. I don't really think I was following one single method, but I wanted to start with personality anyways. I'm not sure how much a tupper would be affected by personality forcing as they really become something after they've experienced the world for a bit, but it's definitely narration if nothing else. With a very limited subject. So in a way, that can be easier, you can just make a mantra you repeat over and over again without having to think too much, just focus on ~~feels~~.

So yeah, 5 to 10 minutes for a trait could be really difficult unless you have a lot to say, but it's a different story if you're not afraid of repeating. That's why this step of the creation process has been boring for many and why many no longer do it or suggest doing it. But hey, try stuff and see what sticks.

But really, saying good morning or good night should not be a chore. When you're feeling lazy, it takes a couple of seconds and you have no excuse. If you want to spend more time with the tupper then, you certainly can. But the minimum is a couple of seconds.

As for the pone, with a name like Auburn, red hair is nice I guess. Those colors are rather muted and muddy, which at least means that there's no eye burn, but next to all the other marshmallow ponies... They're going to end up looking a bit strange. The ponies in the show are usually very vibrant and saturated. Contrast between desaturated and saturated could be nice though, so I suggest playing around a bit. Leave the pelt how it is and make the hair really like a sunset or something.

+1 naked tupper

Well all are different. Back then it was nothing but strict guidelines, now it's avoiding those strict guidelines because they hurt some. But total freeform is going to hurt others. This community is far from having the perfect way to help others with their tupper problems, but perhaps with time it'll evolve again. Be something less extreme and meet somewhere in the middle when it comes to the methods, so all kinds of people will find the best method to guide them through the process.

It's simple to see why you have a lack of progress. Because you don't really do anything, you see everything as a chore and you probably are one of those master procrastinators. You can say "lazy", sure. You're in a bit of a tricky situation as far as your life goes, in a way it could be the perfect opportunity for you to get away from it all for a moment and spend all that time with a tupper, yet you're stressing constantly about it. So that leaves you pretty exhausted mentally if not also physically. Not the ideal time to force.

Okay it's Theory Tuesday. Minimal work might work for some and in some of these cases, this minimal work might require like, years. Many years. Working on it constantly and really focusing on greating a tupper is of course going to give you faster results.

I guess we can wonder how a tupper is created and that's where we start forcing theories down everyone's throats. I think I can say for certain that I got a voice in my head, of others I can't be sure. So I have created a voice that responds to me and I haven't had it before. So we went from no voice/another personality in my head to a scenario where there is one. Question is why, isn't it? Ton of work, but that also makes us ask how the hell that really works.

I don't know anything for certain, but the moment I read about this whole tupper thing, I just went "sure, why not", accepting that it might be possible. The power of our mind can be pretty amazing and that's why I sort of linked this to placebo. A person can be given fake medicine they think works and it can actually truly work, despite not having anything that should make them feel better, so their mind basically creates a real effect. In some cases, this fake medicine is even better than the real one, so that's pretty amazing.

I believe a tupper is basically created when you fool yourself to believe that there is someone in your head when there really isn't. Before you start, there isn't one in your head, of course. Assuming you don't have a history with sapient imaginary friends. It's just a process of fooling yourself into thinking it exists through a lot of work, forcing and narration and such. And as with placebo, I would think that the effect could be real and actually give you that voice in your head, even though it didn't exist before. Might be more difficult because you're aware of what you're doing and you're not fooled into it like with placebo medicine tests, but certainly possible. I think we're proof of that.

It's all about the mindset. Forcing is just fooling yourself into thinking you're talking to someone else when there is no one. You get a tupper once your mind is fooled enough. If you can't even say "hi" to this other person, I'd say you don't think there really is another person in your head, which leads into no progress and no tupper. The first step is to treat them like another person, one with their own wants and needs and dreams and whatever. A person you spend time with. I hope you enjoyed your Theory Tuesday.

As for the ponies, if you make me imagine "auburn skies", then I would think of a setting or a rising sun and the sky when it's full of beautiful reds and oranges. I think the orange/brown aka auburn hair would fit the name better and you do tend to pair your redheads with green eyes pretty often, but it's a rather boring hair color for a cartoon marshmallow pony. A bit too realistic and plain. So I would make it flashier and more vibrant.

But I guess muted, neutral and normal colors could fit a very down to earth character. A wallflower, no one special. Or at least one who doesn't think they're special.

Hey, you can have a feminine dude still look like a dude unless you want the joke to be that they're a trap....

And now this thread has been derailed.

Sure thing, many chicks like pretty boys and many others enjoy traps. But when it comes to character creation, you want it to fit the character. Mostly if us viewers confuse the character's gender, then do all the characters in the story or whatever also do the same mistake? If they don't, why? You can get some pretty good character building stuff from that.

And I can't say I really know "I'll just keep the pone how it is" means, when you've given me two completely different pictures which don't even look like the same character...

I guess if your tupper's form is something you can obsess over, it can be easier. If you have a character in mind then I guess you can use it as the tupper's form as long as you want. Or they, if they manage to grow bored of it before you do.