Character Design

As a cartoonist, I love coming up with new character designs! I have piles of sketchbooks full of them, experimenting with shapes and anatomy to figure out how to make them interesting to meet! Even when I make one cool main character, I’m always interested making up the background folks who aren’t as cool yet fill a world with life!

Blackmask

A Gameboy Styled Indie Game currently in development! Stop by my Pixel Art Page to see the game in action!

Cole Color Eight View Turnarounds
Five concept illustrations of an anthropomorphic male raccoon in a blue hooded jacket in various poses and angles. Top left has the raccoon with the jacket opened revealing a bow and arrow set inside. Bottom left is a general pose of the determined raccoon putting on his jacket over his dark green tunic, and orange scarf. Top middle is a back view of the jacket showing how the ear space is stitched and the tail sticks out at the back. Bottom middle shows the raccoon carrying a backpack full of various adventuring tools and weapons on his back. Right insert shows the raccoon with his hood up sitting at the top of a tree in contemplation.
Four Concept Illustrations of a blue merchant tent of various styles and designs. Top left has a wall tent design with a rack of pole arms next to it. Top right is a canopy tent over a desk of an anthropomorphic male raccoon surrounded by various weapons, shields, and tools that he has for sale. Bottom Left tent is a wall tent design with the raccoon standing outside the entrance and small wood axe over a pile of firewood next to it. Bottom Right tent is a popup tent with an extended canopy over the merchant counter with a raccoon surrounded by various weapons, items and tools for sale.
Six Key illustration of an anthropomorphic male raccoon wearing a blue coat. The first illustration has the raccoon throwing a small hatchet to the camera to demonstrate his axe throwing skills. The second illustration has the raccoon throwing a three distinct knives in a horizontal spread pattern to the camera to demonstrate his knife throwing skills. The fifth illustration has the raccoon holding a massive amount of small knives in his hands, belt, and teeth. The sixth illustration has the raccoon wearing his blue coat with a hood over his headand a large backpack full of his items, including a larger sword, a sleep roll, and a pack of dynamite. He holds a knife in his fingers to balance it's weight as he furrows his brow assessing the knife's value.
Back and Front Illustration of an anthropomorphic male raccoon in a green jacket. The raccoon fires a bow and hold his extra arrows in his tail like a quiver.He variety of specialty arrows, including a regular arrow, a vine arrow, a live snake, and a rat warrior with a needle.
Two marker illustrations of an anthropomorphic male raccoon wearing a tattler dark green tunic, brown pants, leather belt and codpiece and an orange bandana on his neck. The raccoon brandishes a short sword and throwing knives in the two different action poses.
Cole Climb Poses

Tail Knight Flat Turnarounds

An illustration of a group called the Tail Knights of Caudia. They are a variety of anthropomorphic animals doing armor who wield their large, fluffy tails as shock absorbing shields and arrow storing quivers. From left to right the animals are: a small red squirrel who wields his tail as shield, a skunk who holds his tail strips as a crossbow, a fox with a sword and a tail for a shield, a raccoon with a larger tail than normal, and a tanuki with a tail quiver full of arrows.
A model sheet of four color variations of the Tail Knights of Caudia in Blackmask. Left to Right: One, A Red Fox wearing white armor and helmet, a red sash on his neck, red gloves and boots, and a light blue gambeson underneath the armor. Two, A Red Fox wearing white armor and helmet, a red sash on his neck, red gloves, white boots, and a light green gambeson underneath the armor that is a reference to the character Fox McCloud from the Star Fox Video Game Series. Three, An Arctic Fox wearing blue armor and helmet, gloves and boots, It doesn't wear a sash on his neck and gambeson underneath the armor due to thicker fur for the cold. Four, A Brown Fox with red eyes wearing black armor, helmet, gloves and boots, a dark grey sash on his neck, and a light grey gambeson underneath the armor.
Tail Knight & Bandit
A turnaround model sheet for the Skunk Tail Knight. Left: Skunk dons white armor and helmet, a red sash on his neck, red gloves and boots, and a light blue gambeson underneath the armor. He holds his large stripped tail as a shield. Middle: Skunk hold his tail and using his middle tail stripe as a crossbow bolt. Right: The Back view shows the general size of the skunk's tail unfurled that is double his body size.
Tail Knight Stoat Archer

Bear Bandit Designs

Enemy Concept Illustration of the Bear Bandit Part 2. The left design is a sunbear wearing red and yellow stripped pants.The right design is a re exploration of a brown bear holding a carved tree trunk club with thorns wrapped around it. The thorns are red in comparison to the previous designs with green thorns. They are both variations of the idea of a brown bear holding a carved tree trunk club with green thorns wrapped around it. The left design has a variation where the bear wears a spiked pauldron on his shoulder. The right design is close to the final pixel art sprite, with a torn executioner's mask. Enemy Concept Illustration of the Bear Bandit Part 3. The left design is an unarmed polar bear wearing blue pants and white foot wraps. the right design is a black bear wearing and head bandana and red and yellow stripped pants. The black bear also carries round bombs with a lit fuse. Enemy Concept Illustration of the Bear Bandit Part 4. The left design depicts a blonde female bear in yellow armor, and green unitard. She wields a combination axe and hammer weapon. The right design depicts an unarmed black bear with two scars over it's snout. He wears one spike pauldron over his shoulder and a light gray loincloth.
2D Bear Designs Inks

Rabbit Land Denizens

A collection of anthropomorphic rabbit sketches digital sketches. This collection includes: A sitting female light brown rabbit wearing a light blue dress, white apron and white head bonnet covering her ears An female tan rabbit with pale ear tips and dreadlocks, wearing a blue pleated dress and carrying a yellow messenger bag and scrolls in her hands. An female orange rabbit wearing a red-orange dress with a yellow bow under a moon brooch at her neck. She also has small red bows on her long ears and thigh high stockings. A white male rabbit wearing a torn black kimono and torn white hakama, roped sandals on his feet and a half mask on his face. At his waist at two katanas. A chocolate brown male rabbit sitting cross legged on an elaborate chair holding a gold cane at his side. He wears a gold top hat a matching gold tailcoat, and an purple vest and tie underneath.
Rabbit Phone Sketches 03
A larger collection of digital sketches of five anthropomorphic rabbit character designs. Left to Right: Brown Male Rabbit in a Red Coat and Ascot holding a feather and book. Fat White Male Rabbit in a blue luchador mask and blue trunks Yellow male rabbit wearing a straw hat and brown overalls. He carries a rake with him for farming. White female rabbit wearing a leotard made of green leaves. She wields a green staff with a large leaf at the end. A female white rabbit with brown spots. She wears brown and yellow robes and hold on to a book she flips through.
A larger collection of digital sketches of ten anthropomorphic rabbit character designs.
Rabbit Phone Sketches 01

Hoof Characters

Base costumes for anthropomorphic Bovine Characters, male and female brown cows. Desert designs for anthropomorphic Bovine Characters, female wear orange robes while male wears blue robes. Base costumes for anthropomorphic Bovine Characters. Left is a Holstein cow in a red dress, her spot patterns are in a half and half design. Right Cow is a white cow with no horns dress in opulent dance wear.Base costumes for anthropomorphic Bovine Characters. Left is a female cow warrior, in an orange hood drawing a sword at her hip. Left is a Highland Cattle in plate armor.
Concept art sketches of six variations anthropomorphic pig character designs. Top three row depict the ground foot soldiers dressed in red armor, top left pig is a basic armor design, top middle pig has red armor with musket, and top right pig has red armor with large sword. Bottom three row depict the sea naval sailors dressed in red outfits, bottom left pig wears a simple red and yellow bandana and t-shirt with belly sticking out, bottom middle pig has red tricorn hat and red coat, and bottom right pig has a blue tricorn hat and blue coat with metal pauldrons over it.
Concept art sketches of two variations anthropomorphic pig character designs. Left depicts a large pig in a red coat, a steel helmet and gauntlets, and a harness of pouches. The right depicts a large boar wearing read pauldrons and a red chainmail loincloth.
Collection of various sketches of anthropomorphic male and female pigs wearing butler or maid outfits. The sketches explore different character designs, with close up portraits of the details of the butler's glasses and the maid's headdress.
Collection of various sketches of anthropomorphic male and female pigs exploring different character designs. Left side of the sketches are of various portraits with the top being a watercolor sketch of a female pig with blonde pigtail hair. Right side of the sketches depict six full body thumbnails of various male and female pig designs exploring body shapes and clothing options.
Pencil sketch of a group of four anthropomorphic deer characters. The player character, and anthropomorphic male raccoon in a long coat, stands at the far left as a size comparison. Second to the left is a female deer wearing a knee length dress, apron, and head scarf. In the middle is a female deer wearing a longer dress, long vest, a backpack, and holding a walking staff for travel. Second to the right is a male deer on wearing a tattered tunic. To the right a males deer wearing a larger jerkin, a neck scarf, and wields a sword and shield for combat.

Lynx Character Design Turnaround

Turnaround model sheet of an anthropomorphic lynx wearing a revealing Landsknecht Doublet and holds a sword with a tassel on it.

Cheer Academy

Character Designs for the Unreleased Game Cheer Academy

Cheer Academy Mama's Girl Age Art
Cheer AcademRich Girl Age Art
Cheer Academy Bad Girl Age Art
Cheer Academy Tomboy Age Art
Cheer Academy Good Girl Age Art
Cheer Academy Nerd Girl Age Art

The Men’s Room

Artwork created for my 3D animated short, The Men’s Room.