This is basically concept art for a character of mine that I've now purchased a doll to customize into. I'm part of the ball-jointed doll hobby. It's a long story, but yeah.

Essentially his character is a churchgrim that finds a young teenager that has ran away from home in his graveyard. (legend had it that the first person to be buried in a graveyard had to look after all the souls that came after them, so it was customary in England to sacrifice a pure black dog for this purpose. The dog would then be the first "person" buried and no human would be cursed with that task.

Since no one currently attends his church since it is abandoned and therefore there will be no more souls in need of shepherding in his graveyard, he follows the boy. He appears either as a dog or as a young man when with Aiden (the boy he protects) but could probably take any form that would make those in his care feel comfortable.

I need to play with the colors a bit (I super screwed up his lips) but this is sort of what I want Alexander to look like. He’s a ghostly sort of creature so I wanted muted colors, more grays and browns than blues, I don’t want him icy. He has dark circles because he’s literally a watchdog and wouldn’t get much sleep.

The important part is the eyebrows. I definitely want them very thick at the base and then tapering outward, reminiscent of a dog’s eyebrows.

I’m really not happy with this drawing. I sped through it, but the colors are pretty good and I think I’ve put on all the features I think he would have. He doesn’t look as gentle as I’d like and I drew the clasp backward’s on the belt and ugh.