Progress on Daniel Tiger Character

So last month was very busy, I've been working a lot lately and when I haven't been working I've been resting or spending time with my family and friends. As a result I didn't get too much done on my two projects. I was off today so I decided to get back to work on them. I worked on the Daniel Tiger character today since I was still in the beginning stages of it, so it was easier to continue working on.

I got a lot of work done on his face. For the longest time I had trouble with getting the details of the face, especially the head the way I wanted it to look. In the show many of the characters have curved lines around their heads and I wanted to replicate that, but I didn't know how. I played around a bit in illustrator and I finally found a way that isn't so hard to do. I created a shape with the pen tool and added a ton of anchor points around it. When I got the number of points I wanted I did effect
Right now I'm still messing around the with face patterns and the fur texture I picked out. I'm not quite satisfied with it yet, but its off to a good start:

Birthday Gift

I've been trying to get some motivation to start animating as much as I used to. Lately I've just been in kind of a slump. This week a friend of mine had a birthday, so I decided to create a picture for him. Its just a little fan art of anime/game series that he really likes. The little character is a bear that makes a lot of bear themed puns. It was a fun project, and it didn't take too much time to complete.

This was really fun and he really liked it. I put his name in the final version of the picture, but I'm placing it here without it.