Rabbit Man and Maoshi the Rabbit

These two used to be a pair of traveling magicians. They hit it big by using the old "pull a rabbit from a hat trick", and soon they were living the good life. Until Maoshi, the rabbit, got a little lazy and a little... fat. After a while, they couldn't pull him out of anything. Now they seek to rebuild their career as magicians. Rabbit Man enjoys whittling on his time off, and helps support the two by selling his small carved statues. Maoshi enjoys eating on their time off, and doesn't help support the two by eating all the food.

Silhouette Rabbit Man and Animal

Grigori Bashmakov

Name: Grigori Bashmakov
Age: 65
Grigori is an ex Russian Intelligence agent, who was forced to retire after he got too old. Feeling the need to keep working, he joined his brothers mail service. This still wasn't enough, however, and feeling the need to continue serving his countrymen, he decided to put his agent skills to work. He can open and re-seal an envelope without anyone knowing anything was different. He began "fixing" people's mail for the recipient and the senders own good. Determined to continue protecting his country in whatever way he could. To date he has prevented 6 divorces, 4 poorly written love poems, 2 wars, and 1,567 misunderstandings.

I'm still not so sure about the cork-board background. The original idea was to have pins and pictures and things tacked to it like it was being used in a mail room or at a private desk, but I found it became too distracting and took away from the actual characters. So I took them out and ended up with just the board.

Three Character Pencil Versions

Three Character Project Resources and Concept

Character Shapes (color... some)

Character Shapes

 

Dancing Batman!

Self Portrate

...So I made myself cross-eyed. Kinda looks like I'm about to sneeze actually.

Self Portrate Concepts

 My first sketches turned out alright with the exception of the eyes.

I realized I didn't want to do just a picture of me smiling or staring straight forward, so I wanted to do something kind of goofy. I figured a big goofy grin would work well... And then I made these. I got half way through before realizing this was WAY more creepy than it was goofy. But I went with it anyway.