I went for a storybook look for this guy. The idea behind the character is sort of a Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket thing, with the sidekick provided by my previous fox mascot project.
It was a lot of fun to return to digital painting again, after working on 3D for such a long while. It was also really cool to use my 3D work as a reference for 2D work, and I hope to use this workflow a lot going forward.
Animation of progress