Co-Star Character Design

For [one of] this week's HW assignments, I had to design a sidekick or co-star for my previous character corresponding to a time period of my choice. (I chose my Old West time period variation -- I love westerns). The result was Wranglin' Raccoon!

Wranglin' Raccoon is the lead villain in the Old West alternate universe of Drama Llama. He's the mastermind and head of a notorious band of outlaws of which Drama Llama is a member. Unfortunately for Wranglin' Raccoon, he's miles ahead in the brains department compared to the rest of his merry band of wrong-doers and thus he ends up spending more time trying to extricate himself from their botched robbery attempts than actually planning nefarious deeds.

Some of the preliminary research/sketches:

Then I did color variations! This was a really useful exercise -- I'm trying to improve my color design, and doing this exercise made me think outside of the box a bit from what I would normally consider.