Goo-Ers Toys Part 1 – Ideas and Sketches

As one of the two final projects for my Sketching for Communication course that I took in first semester, I had to create an original character, which later on being turned into a toy.  I was kind of confused and had no ideas on what characters I wanted to create.  I didn’t want to spend too much time thinking without doing anything, so I just grabbed my pencil and sketchbook, then started drawing my dogs.

I named my dogs characters based on my dogs’ real name. They even have the same characteristics as my dogs! After drawing the dogs, my creative mood suddenly appeared…so I drew some more sketches for this toy project.  Below are my sketches (click thumbnails to enlarge):

I showed my sketches to my professor and asked him for his thoughts.  He liked my sketches and said I could do either the dogs or any of those little round characters I drew.  I was thinking for a while before deciding to do the little round things for this project.  At that point, my characters still had no name, and I called them as “little rounds”.

The next thing I did was re-draw my “little rounds” and gave each character a name and personality as follow (click on thumbnails to enlarge):

Angelina – The Feminine

Angelina is feminine and beautiful.  She loves flowers, sugar, chocolates and everything nice. She’s a happy go lucky type of girl.  I got her name from Angelina Jolie.  If you notice, Angelina has thick lips.

Betty – The Nurse

Betty is loving and caring. Her ambition is to make the world a better place. She believes that one day, there will be a world peace. I was inspired by Betty from “Betty & Veronica” when I created this character.

Jordan – The Geek

Jordan is a total geek. He wears glasses, has no expression, and spends most of his time studying or reading books. I like geeks and thought it would be cool to have a geek character.

Max – The Music Lover

Max loves music so much, and it can be seen from his earphones and music symbol on his shirt. He likes hanging out with friends and going out for fun. His name was inspired from Christina Aguilera’s first son, Max Bratman.

Here are the characters’ sketches from front, side, and back, as well as the color scheme that I decided to use for the toy-to-be (click thumbnails to enlarge):

to be continue in “Goo-Ers Toys Part 2 – Making the Toys”…