Character illustrations - Characters of the world

After analysing the idea of redesigning my main characters due to the current difficulty I am facing with the consistency of drawing human characters (as well as art style), I decided to do several non-human character drawings/sketches that I would potentially incorporate for character interactions in my final artworks. These characters are just ideas of the locals/race/communities of the world I am creating. These ideas are not random as I wanted them to fit in with the scenes that they can be put in with my main character duos (robots in junk yards/spirits in forests/knights in castles, etc.). Doing these quick drawings of potential characters of the world will help me expand ideas, as well as fitting them in with the initial environments I had in mind (high street/forest/lake). The idea behind this is to generate extra content that will back up the expansion and the exploration of the world I am creating.

My final artworks will involve other characters (such as the townspeople) so these character ideas I had done can be fitted in with the artworks, being in the background or in action scenes that involves them (directly or indirectly). 

 Colour sketches of random characters for my world. 

The creation of other non-human characters/anthropomorphic characters, as well as human characters with exaggerated proportions are to fit within the genre/setting of fantasy and enchantment I am aiming to visually communicate in my artworks. The visuals alone will not be enough to communicate the magical/mystical portrayal of my world if the content itself (characters and environmental designs of the world) is lacking, which would conflict with the purpose of this project; to explore and create a world of my original characters and environments (the content).

Anthropomorphic characters based on real life animals such as cats and birds are one of the things I wanted to use as part of my content in generating a world that has a mix between reality and fantasy, where animals we are familiar with are given a persona to make them relatable to the audience. Their designs as of now are rough and not all of them would make it to the final artworks, though these ideas will not be forgotten as they can be used later on if I were to expand the creation of my world in the future. I will take some of these characters that will be involved in the final artworks (alongside my main characters) to finalise their design.