I’m a big fan of shape characters, which for me are characters that can be designed from a basic primitive shape such as a square, circle or triangle. Most of my characters start out as a primitive shape, and get fleshed out from there.
This little gooball started out as a rectangle. From there I built upon the shape by adding features and playing with those proportions until I got something I liked.
If I’m drawing on paper then I like to do pen for linework and watercolor for color. There’s a level of subtlety and imperfection in my physical drawings that I haven’t figured out how to replicate digitally, so if I need to churn out rough ideas I work in a sketchbook.
The character is from a concept I’ve been tinkering with for years called “Drained,” about a family of hairballs that have been flushed from their quaint little drainpipe, and are now adapting to life in a sprawling metropolitan sewer city.
Thanks for peepin this drawing!