Inanimate Objects R Fun

These ideas are a product of trying to let go of my conventional views of what a face/body should look like, and basing my drawing more on basic shapes and simplistic ideas. I think because most of my knowledge of character design comes from animation and comics, I can get stuck in perceptions of how a person is put together without considering just simplifying it way down until it's just the bare essentials needed to be recognised as a face or a body. For this project I want to move on from 'traditional' (it's not really traditional but it's sort of traditional in the sense it's been in my brain forever) ways of putting characters together using humanoid forms and comic inspired faces. I think this will allow me to find something new and exciting to use in my gifs, while also not being over complicated. 

I'm also focused on the overriding theme of my gifs being that of giving life and personality to uninteresting inanimate objects. I've been enjoying playing with character when there is the specific purpose of making something lifeless seem like it has a personality, instead of randomly churning out characters of every sort. I also think that some objects have personalities written into their appearance anyway, such as trees seem peaceful, baseballs seem mental, guitars ooze cool, even though all of these things are just things that can't actually think or do anything (unless photosynthesizing counts as something) independently.