https://www.pinterest.co.uk/nikijacksonart/character-reference/
I catalogued the characters into the following: Babies, kids, teenagers, adults, animals, families, toys, and characters (made up).
At first I found this exercise really overwhelming, I didn't know where to start in choosing a character. I decided to start with what was familiar, I've created characters from animals before and I'm currently working on Christmas designs for my own art business products so it made sense to go with Christmas/Winter characters.
I narrowed it down to a snowman and Santa because they are the ones I want to use in my products.
I started with sketching snowman heads. I sketched them at first in a familiar way but then I accidentally drew the carrot nose a bit too plump and I thought actually that looks really cute so practiced drawing it that way intentionally.
I then scanned this in and practiced drawing the full snowman in Procreate.
I then sketched the Santa. I started with just his head to get a feel for his character and then drew him full bodied in different directions.
Here is my final Santa character.
I really like how they both turned out and think with more practice I could get them even better.
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