Hope everyone’s week is off to a good start! I thought I’d share some concept sketches from creating BunBun the Carhop today!

Here are my initial sketches of her! I felt the face on the one on the left looked too much like Cinnamoroll, one of my favorite Sanrio characters. My project mates thought the drumstick legs on the one on the right were funny. I’m not sure if they meant in a good way. I still think they look funny and cute! 😆 The squishy marshmallow bod in the middle was my favorite, but how to put skates on those little nubbin’ feet?! Well my friend, Shavo, just stole the skates from sketch one and pasted them on sketch 2. Sometimes problem solving is that easy and you just need another set of eyes on the thing to see that! Hahaha!

And here are some more variations in color! I maaay have been thinking about vanilla, chocolate and strawberry shakes while coloring. From left to right we’ve got very simple red and white, retro pastels and primary color carhop uniforms. In the end the classic red and white ala In-N-Out Burger appealed to me the most. You can see that the final BunBun art combines some of the best features from sketches 1 and 2!

More sketches coming this week! Thanks for having a look!