Mascots

[Suenaga Mirai (Danny's mascot) by Azami Yuko]

All over the world i have noticed an emergence of mascots from all walks of life. Long gone is the time that mascots were limited to little cute fuzzy things that many fan girls (and fan boys) squealed over as they were usually fluff balls no bigger then an other characters head. In the present day mascots have taken a turn towards the shape of human beings (though not always actual humans). Of course as every Otaku would know MOE sells. Many mascots are obviously much better then their fluffy-fluff-ball-of-fluff counterparts as can be seen by the above picture of Mirai.

Lately i have become increasingly addicted to drawing other peoples mascots as they appear to me to be akin to the newcomers in the world of anime/manga. I do not (at the moment) want to draw mascots from animes and mangas or even characters from them for that matter~ instead i will be focussing on people's original characters (OC) to help promote these little guys facing an extremely big world.

Here are some of my initial sketch/inks of mimi's mascot (name i do not know...is it also mimi?)

[Mimi's mascot initial sketches]

Even though i am going to colour it and all i would like to say that this is NOT the final product i want to complete. As you may be able to tell my lack of creativity has left Mimi's mascot in the cute but kinda mundane sailor uniform. Anyway~ i wanna ask anyone for ideas that you could think of for the clothes and accesories for the mascot. I wanna make her much more unique so she stands out more you see? x3. any ideas would be welcome =D

[Mimi's Current Avatar]

i also loved the expression Mimi placed on her mascots face just had to copy it onto my own drawings =] (yes yes Mimi is more creative then me) 8D

[Suenaga Haruka (Danny Choo's other Mascot) by Azaim Yuko]

^__^" just had to finish off the post with a pic of Haruka <3>