Sketching Characters: Frog and Dog

Much like last semester, we took time to sketch out our characters with a live model posing for us. I liked drawing my character, and this gave me the perfect opportunity to figure out his body structure and physical traits.

My character is a humanoid frog with a very thin physique, mostly in his limbs. The trickiest part of drawing him initially was his eyes, since a frog's eyes are much larger than say a dog's eyes, and they aren't contained by the skull. As I draw him more, I learned how big to make the eyes compared to the size of the head.

Another issue was how to make his pupils within the eyes. As class started, I made them look connected to the bottom of his eye as well as the top, much like in the picture above. But as class went on, I realized that I limited his sight range and expressions because his pupils were too rigid. I eventually fixed it by making his pupils smaller, giving him more expressions.

Since this is the first animal character I made with pants, as he has no fur to cover himself, it made me think about my other character Domino in terms of design. Seeing the two next to each other made Domino seem a lot more...bare. Why does the frog need pants and Domino doesn't? Is it because of the fur? It gives me a lot more thought into the characters, and gave me potential ideas to edit their looks further.