How to build a character

How do you build up your characters? How do you name them and do you use special looks for them?

I mostly take people I know and who fit in the story I'm writing.. I try to do my best to describe them and sometimes I combine 2 people in 1 character

so you get your characters from real life people?

Yea, one or multiple.. depends on how good that person fits to the scenario I had in mind

I do the same thing mostly

Might need to create my own new characters someday, when I've used every person I know

I doubt that will be so. Every person has a lot of diffrent sides so there are a lot of diffrent angles you can use. And when that stops, you can always combine those characters.

Yea that's true

I get my characters from the story itself if that makes sense. I don't plan stuff out except for one character, cuz if i plan, that plan is only the first of MANY drafts.

I get some of my character names from people i knew. None are written in the story yet, but they will appear.

Some characters I get from people I know. And some I create myself. The only thing hard for me is the name. The rest is easier in my opinion

I base them on my own thoughts, people I've met and people I would like to meet...

In the only story that i wrote so far, I just maked up a character which suited in the story.