OUIL603 - Mental health monsters

I wanted to move away from working digitally so I started a new sketchbook with doodles of kids faces, I wanted to start off by designing the character that would be the main focus of my book, so I just played around with different shapes and textures. I found that my work looked a lot more free and creative when I moved away from working digitally, which helped me come up with a lot more ideas and kind of carried me through the developmental stages.

I went through a mixture of mediums in my sketches, I started off doing all my monster designs in papercut but it was taking way too long and wasn't immediate enough for me to get my ideas down, so I started using oil pastels, which I haven't used in ages, but they were really good for getting ideas down quick but still having a really nice texture and feel to them. 

I tried using some different funky shapes, although I am bloody obsessed with that triangle nose, eye and mouth combination, I think it works really well, because I ALWAYS have trouble drawings noses, so this is the perfect solution, it's compact and just looks really pleasing on the eye.

I absolutely LOVE this guy, he's my favourite by far. He is developmental work for the Scared monster, who is very flitty and easy to scare like a fly, so I make him look bug like with his antenna and his wibbly legs. I really want to develop just this character into his own little stories and comics after the deadline, so that I can realy get stuck into it, without the stress of everything else.