Kurtz is the player-character I play in a DnD 3.5 Edition campaign with some friends. Our campaign now spans a 5-6 years I think now. At this point he's reached epic levels and multiclasses as a spell thief and arcane archer. When building the character, we based him mostly on a half-elf with more or less a different skin.
I tend to doodle pictures of him in various outfits and armor during our sessions - sometimes even depicting events within the game and sometimes just coming up with random ideas to place him in.