To get my ID's darned thumbnail off my main page, here's another character from my Toys plot, supposedly one of the main antagonists. He's none other than Della's housemate, the Lab Fred. He'd been the family dog for about two and a half years before Della was introduced, and he's none too happy about the new arrival. He'd been brought up to think of the true dog as being and behaving a certain way, and Della with her diminutive size and sighthound mannerisms (and outline) just doesn't fit the bill to Fred, who looks down on her and takes every opportunity to tell her exactly what he thinks of her. With the members of his human family he is all man's best friend, but when left alone with Della he becomes a cruel tease. Even after her initiation to Peaches' group and becoming more aware of herself and surroundings, Della is still a little afraid of him, having been subject to his derisive treatment of her since puphood, and as yet lacks the courage to stand up to him.

Designwise, I was having trouble getting Fred to look a certain way, and his face kept changing each time I drew him. Not only that, but I couldn't get him to look the way I wanted him to look - the type of face that can look like your stereotypical goofy friendly clownsome Lab one moment and in the next be both smirking and mean-spirited. I finally managed to nail it yesterday, thank goodness.. and have been getting used to drawing him that way. So now here he is, yay. I'm quite happy with his design now actually.

...and my two male characters so far are named Fred and George. Wonderful. That was a completely unconscious decision, I swear.. and it was also a coincidence that Fred's original name was Charlie. >.>