Character design ideas

I did some more quick sketches of Craig from the photos I took to try and get more of a feel for his character — posture, face shape etc so I could start trying to figure out something of a character design.

None of these feel "right" to me — then again they're only quick pencil sketches, so it's difficult to envision how the characters and backgrounds might work together. I think it might help if I start using more colour and different materials to create mock ups of certain scenes, to demonstrate and give me an idea on how certain elements will work together.

I think maybe I'm worrying too much. All I really want in terms of a character is a little puppet-Craig, so I don't need to go completely crazy — I think I can probably get away with chopping some photographs together, maybe on some sort of drawn or edited body?

I started thinking about rotoscoping and how that might look so I did some quick traces of a couple of the photos to see how that might work.

I don't know. I think they look okay but it's not really what I'm going for. I can't see them working as animated characters. They're too stiff I think, especially compared with the sort of backdrops I'm trying to use.

I've asked Craig to send me some of his drawings that I can make puppets out of as background characters!