I came across a PAX panel video featuring character designers from Motiga, the studio working on the game Gigantic. I decided to follow their process and design a character for my own practice. 

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Description

Writing down ideas for the character

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References
References

Gathering reference images

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Another Character
Another Character

This was in my head too.

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Writing down ideas for the character

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