Explore Early Character Concepts and Expressive Doodles

Explore Early Character Concepts and Expressive DoodlesExplore Early Character Concepts and Expressive Doodles

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Mary Delaney

• 2d

A few cute doodles for a character I can't share just yet...! I always like looking at my early sketches, there's a lot of expression and emotion in the pencil lines. In this case I also really like the early character concepts even though the final version evolved quite a bit from what you see here.

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Girum Tamiru

• 2d

Cool

Marija Nikolic

• 1d

Love them!

Vanshika .

• May 27

Made my first animation in Jitter. 🚀 Honest review: It's easier to use than I thought! Looking forward to creating more complex and visually stunning animations using Jitter. 😊

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Sahil Undhad

• May 27

Nice One

Dhwani Chauhan

• May 27

Cute brands are fun. But the best ones still feel structured, memorable, and scalable.

Built this playful identity for Catopia by mixing soft mascots with a clean visual system ✨

Brand Design

Sahil Undhad

• May 27

Nice designs

Volodymyr Surmachevskyi

• May 27

A self-initiated concept series — and a deliberate test of one hard problem: can eight completely different characters feel like a single, coherent collection?

Eight ceremonial masks, each embodying one archetypal human force — greed, rage, wisdom, unity and more — built in a dark-luxury register drawn from Japanese mythology. Produced through a controlled AI generation pipeline and finished by hand in Photoshop, with one unified palette, material language and lighting across the entire set.

That consistency is the whole point. A striking single image is easy; the real skill is a visual system where every piece belongs to the same world. This series is the foundation of the KAISHIKU universe and demonstrates character design, art direction and collection-scale coherence.