Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood Inspired Character

 Last weekend while hanging out with my boyfriend we started watching PBS because we were bored, a show called "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood" was on. I thought the show was really cute, but what really caught my eye was the design of the characters:

I really like the different textures and the other little details like the lines of their eyes and mouths. I got inspired to make my own little character that could fit into that world:

My idea is a little ferret that is into playing sports. I want to take him into illustrator and color him in the same way. This project should be interesting. I'm already seeing a lot of things I'll have to do like finding or creating fur like textures and using the mesh tool and gradients a lot. I've done a character similar to that style before in flash, but I'm going to use illustrator since it should be better for this project.

I'll post updates on him as I work on it!

My Little Pony Sketch

I'm a big fan of the new My Little Pony show, I really like the art style of it, and I really wouldn't mind working for that show.Today while sketching around I thought it would be neat to draw myself as a pony. It actually turned out pretty nice. I got the structure of the pony rather quickly and decided to add in some cute details.

I haven't quite picked out a "cutie mark" for myself quite yet. But I'm planning on doing a little ink and paint for her, so I'll think of a nice one.

I also had a lot of fun using markers for the outlines, I'm going to do it much more often now.