Moe and Les

Here's a few character designs for a job which unfortunately never made it. The brief was to design two cheeky characters which would encourage people to do a little 'Moe' exercise and eat a little 'Les'. It was a lot of fun coming up with the designs and thinking of the various mischievous things they could do. Although it would have been CG I wanted to try out a kind of illustrative feel with lots of texture. Ah well. Here's the initial little thumbnails that I always start with...

... and a few with them in various costumes. I thought they'd be the sort of chaps who'd like to dress up a lot...

And here's some characters and environments worked up in Photoshop...