what do your sims look like

Right now, I’m playing mostly premade supernaturals with only minimal changes. So they look like Morgyn, Nalani, Guidry, Vlad, etc. Oberon Lazuli (my avatar) is original, and was designed with a specific role in the story and a personality type to match. I had a general idea of what I wanted him to look like and played around in CAS until the result matched my idea. That’s how I usually design my sims. They’re story characters first, with a general idea about appearance that is refined in CAS.

Hi @ranulhh
My current sims are either premades, children of premades, or aliens. So none of them are made in honor of real life people that I know :)
But with their hair and clothes I often take inspiration from styles I'm familiar with in real life. Sometimes it's an individual's style, like what would this person I know in real life wear to a formal occasion, that kind of thing.

I pretty much cover the range of options. I use premades (many customized as they age), OC Sims who are drawn entirely from my imagination, other OC Sims who are loosely based on myself or people I know (I think I have three radically different versions of "me" roaming around my current save) and the game generated children of Sims. I'm currently going through a wild CAS phase, updating and modifying the random townies my game as generated.

It's a huge mix. Catalog models, stock photos, and a few TV characters. Also, many are based on equestrian athletes, something I did when the rumors of the first horse pack started circulating. Also, most of the individuals from the stock photos ended up being members of college rodeo teams, and were also ranchers/wranglers; and not models.

Many are Gallery Sims just added so MCCC would have more Sims to pick from the tray instead of generating Townies.

I usually play premades these days
so they just kinda look like themselves
but with slightly better makeup hair and clothing

well in my opinion anyway

i do have sinself...
i mean simself*
i sometimes mess with

she wears mostly things i could see myself wearing/are similar to clothes i own but also few silly outfits i like but would not be practical to wear irl

i do think that cats and dogs hairstyle is essential part of my simself though so i don't really give it to other sims it just feels like my wig got snatched

and yeah i give her similar traits to me
she doesn't always act like i would though because she uses sim logic

when i make sim of my own thats not simself or premade i just try to match looks with character/role i had in mind or pick something that suits the sim

I don't really make sims based on other real people than myself though at least not intentionally

sometimes the kiddos of my sims or premades look vaguely similar to some celeb and i just run with it though :lol:

Most of the Sims I make are based on franchises.
For example, they would include Frozen, Harry Potter, etc.
Other times I just have an idea, and base a Sim off of that. Like if I want a male with black and and green eyes, I go with that and wing it.

I don't try to make sims that look like anybody I know, or even anybody in particular. I don't have the skills and it doesn't really feel right to me. My sims are their own 'people'. As far as looks, I never plan how they'll look physically. Their look happens free style. It evolves as I sit there and ask myself questions about them, or ask questions and answer how I think they would if they were real and there with me. I will at times have a particular fashion aesthetic in mind when I start, but that's as much planning ahead as I do.

I base them off of people irl or characters in various media!

Some (very few) of my Sims are based on characters from a couple of TV shows. I have one Sim based on a great friend of mine who lives about 100km away, and that particular sim is living his best life within the constraints of the game.
Often I will design a host of Sims around a theme - Viking brothers, dancers, what have you. As such they will have broad guidelines but they're not as restrictive as copying a specific TV character.

Oh, I am still trying to perfect the Marx Brothers, but that's an ongoing project. I'm just focusing on Groucho, Chico and Harpo. Zeppo and Gummo might appear sometime later.

There was a meme pic of male vs female sims portrayed as toys which sort of summed up the appearances for me:
Female sims looked like a kind of doll - bratz?
Male sims looked like lego men.