Ideation Sketches: Raleigh

I should have posted this a week ago, but anyway, here are some ideation sketches of Raleigh. I was really just trying to nail down his look. I was having a hard time with an adult raccoon-man head structure, so I started with a head turnaround of him as a child and worked from there. If  you followed clockwise from the sketch of young Raleigh kneeling, you can see my process. My first attempt at the older Raleigh turnaround after that looked way too old and stern, so I moved on and found a happy middle ground. Now that I'm happy with his head, I have to figure out the rest of him. Back to the drawing board!

I think my self-criticism is showing. Oh well...c'est la vie!