I find it awkward when someone asks me "who are you drawing", it's not because I don't like them looking at my drawings, it's just because I have those friend or strangers(😐) that aren't artists so then I have to explain to them "it's someone from my imagination"
I only draw people when they ask me if that want to be drawn. But they are technically oc characters but I don't give them a background story other than specific characters, like frostbite, in my art book. Huh, I actually wrote a paragraph instead of 3 sentences, yay me...