New here! So here's an older character design

I actually dreamed up this guy (literally, in a dream) earlier in 2025 and developing him has been fun. This creature was in a sci-fi/modern setting. It was kind of a strange exercise though, because in the dream he kept changing what he looked like, so my design had a lot of unnecessary features added and shapes that didn't make sense.

When I design characters, I draw them mostly from memory in the early stages. What detail don't I feel like drawing again? Did I forget to add a detail? Those don't make it into the final design. The gesture and the posture of the character means more to me than anything else at this stage as well.

He's not exactly perfect, and I stopped working on him, but maybe I will pick him up again, especially when it comes to adding functionality to his form.

Also it's not a real character until it exists in doodle form too.

7 comments