OOAK.biz Blog

I was idly working on a design for the OOAK.biz sign/figure that I had been talking about. Sketching in ideas for OOAK critters and beings that could be sitting on the sign, when I started just making random lines at the top of the A. I had no plan for what to do with the things, it started out being maybe a elf sitting on the top of the A, then looked more like something’s pick axe stuck in the tip of the A… a few moments later I had this funny shape that I started thinking looked like a gargoyle, then this little fellow showed up.

I had no ides what he was, but he seemed to be a rather interesting little figure, so I took him to a sketch pad and started sketching.  First I recreated the basic shapes, thinking how his nose was kind of fox shaped.  I knew already the long forelegs were some kind of wings, a little more work on detailing him and I decided he just “felt” like a fox, so I made the ears a little more like a fox’s and the head a bit more fox looking and less sharply angled.

I then added in the top of the A but decided it wasn’t quite right, he needed a size comparison… well, the top of the A was looking sort of like a finger.  I narrowed and  rounded it some, added a little bit of detail – such as a fingernail.

What had started as claw feet shifted to paws as I worked on the finger, and he got a tail… change tail to be bushy like a fox tail.  There the fellow is.  He needs a fluffy fox type chest too.

I still needed to figure out his wings, so I started sketching another to show the wings, they ended up looking like a flying squirrels wings.  He makes a cute critter, but I think I can see a few other types of little critters in that first sketch, so maybe I’ll end up with a mascot that looks more like the first one I drew and is sort of wyvern-like in appearance.

Well, see.  I have a lot to do before I start on another figure.