Character design research for Group project

The task I have been set is to come up with three possible character designs for use in our game. We need two characters for each of the three examples now this can be anything not necessarily boy and a girl. Now I found a brilliant site with step by step tutorials on how to draw a wide range of character designs called www.dragoart.com I am going to try a standard human female and male for a first design.

For my first character design

That is basically my first female concept design

I then started drawing a male concept without a tutorial to see if I had grasped the concept all I can say is if I was drawing on paper I would have used up many many erasers but thankfully its allot easier to correct on photoshop.

I changed the pose of the arms here

Added some clothes however I was ready to scrap the drawing but I thought I would add some colour first

I felt after I added some colour the image really stood out. So I learnt with this give your image some colour and shading before scrapping

I want to try him out in some different clothes more related to what he may be wearing in the game

As you can see I just gave him a hoody and cargo pants for a more outdoor look and a backpack where all his gear will be.

For my next concept I decided to go with a more kid cartoon feel

I used solid colours and big eyes which I thought had a nice look 

I done a girl version also I like these as they look more like flash game characters