As well as Pintrest, I used other places to gather ideas and inspiration. I’ve included them here, so that all of the images are in one place.

A lot of the inspiration for my whale shark character came from ‘Finding Dory’ and ‘Finding Nemo’ which had a great ability to create strong characters and expressions on fish. The use of added eyebrows, and wide expressions really captures the audiences attention, despite the main characters being fish which I exactly what I wish to create with my main character.

I also looked at Jinbei-san,  a Japanese cartoon character of a whale shark as I think it is very good and a perfect representation of a cute character.

 

For the design of my two headed dog, I looked at the cartoon characters CatDog. These characters are also stuck together but the show does a very good job of showing them moving independently while stuck together, which I thought would be good for me posing my character if I chose to do that design.