Secondary character design

After designing the main character I went on to design the secondary character. I first designed a dog, which I looked at many cartoon dogs and real ones for references. Learning how a dog sits and moves required a lot of references. I tried many different styles/dog types before I settled on the on which I felt fit this animation the best. I then applied the colour scheme of the animation my final dog design.

I then went on to design the mud monster, the character is in a smaller portion of the animation but is very important so it needed to be well designed. I didn't use as many references for this design in the past I had drawn many similar things and since its not a real life creature there were less rules I needed to conform to make it believable. Once I was happy with a design I went on to colour it. Since earth was the key theme of the animation I decided to make the mud monster the only thing that would deviated from the colour scheme. I tested a few different muddy shades, I wanted the colour to both fit the style of the whole piece but also makes sure it is obviously mud.