Children’s Book: Character Design

I decided to come up with a main character before the story, as I thought that the design of the character would help me decide what kind of story I would write. I knew I wanted the story to have some sort of dark plot, but I didn’t know where to start. Below are some of the designs of character I came up with in the very early stages.

This character design is called Red and was made for a story I ended up calling “Red Is Hungry” – a story where Red would go around looking for food and eventually dies of starvation as no one would give him any as he often stole from them in the past.

This design almost became the one I settled with, I even when as far as to come up with a title design. It follows Robo – an odd robot made from fabric – as he went around his communist capital and learned about his “glorious” state of Varster, oblivious to all the cruelty and hardships that were actually going on around him. I even ended up doing concepts for two more characters (below), which may have been thugs that could attempt to mug him.