Character design blobs

In order to start my character design brief, i undertook the task of developing characters based off of ink blobs. This was such a beneficial task to me as it really allowed me to loosen up and look at these images in an abstract way in order to pull creative designs out of them. 

Using the negative space on this blob, i created this puffer fish/coral design. Using the negative space really trained my eyes to look for something a little less obvious like i normally would and to dig a little deeper into my imagination in order to construct an image. 

Using the interior of the blob this time, i created this running dog. This is my favourite design as it was so much fun to depict the movement as it felt really fluid and natural once i saw the design and ran with it. This definitely pushed my out of my comfort zone as animals arent something that i usually draw. 

Moving over towards a human character, i created this witch design. Although i saw the pose straight away when looking at this blob, actually executing it to keep it true to its shape was a lot more difficult. I especially struggled with the hat as i knew i wanted to incorporate some sort of headware but drawing something within the shape proved to be difficult, hence why i settled for the witch design.