My first character design expirience

Few weeks ago our local newspaper called "Inside" offered me the post of illustrator. They needed a character for New Year. They said it must be a rabbit, as a symbol of 2011.
So, as I learned in books, I started from few kinds of different views of character:

I sent them this .jpg and they chosen the left one. So then I worked with him. I drawn him fron three sides and have some work with emotions:

Scetch with brook.

Made in ArtRage.

Fishers

Here's the new scetch with Japanese fisher boats. Made in ArtRage

furniture fantasy

New job - new pictures

I founded new job - illustrator in our regional newspaper "Chizhov Gallery". You can see my first works here.

Crime chronicle illustration - arrest of drug-dealer in night club.

Another crime chronicle illustration - illegal appropriation of water territories.

Cartoon. Prime minister Putin doesn't permit growing prices for dwelling.

One more university sketch

This is our European Literature teacher.

Ambush in a swamp

scetches from father's workshop

These scetches were drawn in 2005 in my father's workshop. He is joiner, you can see a lot of wood in this place.

Crimean sketches

Those water colours were drawn in Crimea, peninsula in south Ukraine.

One more swedish water-colour

Lund, pretty Sweden town.