Character Thumbnail Sketches - Beanie 

Beanie is Anne's best friend who carry Anne around and help her to lift up heavy object. Beanie is a large and squarish mechanic elephant. Compare to Anne, Beanie has a great contrast to her because of its scale and his geometric body shape. I intend to exaggerate both characters therefore it can

clearly capture their own personality and their animation behavior.

Beanie is old, slow yet loyal, kind and helpful. 

Thuumbnail Sketches of Beanie

Second refinement of Beanie

I added tones and shadows to the new thumbnail sketches not only makes it prettier yet i'm try to test the mood between the world and the character. As you can see i change from the old sepia colour to blue and now to bluish green which i think is the best for the scene. I figure the old sepia did looks good and have the Shaun Tan sweet children story feeling, However, i tried the bluish green colour and the image immediately capture of the lonely and gloomy mood of the story. Then another problem started to me worried about if the character blend with the background.Then i came out with an fantastic idea. I added some kid colour pastel drawing on the elephant's metallic body. It not only helps to stand out from the background but it also builds up more characteristic to Beanie. It visualize the innocent and hope that he carries around in this dark world.