Redesign of my characters

When I did research on expressionist artists, I realized how I could make/create my characters in an expressionist style. Observing the characters we usually play, I saw that they were not very similar to what expressionism was. I still tried to darken some of the traits of the characters to capture the dark air of expressionism, but when looking at my characters, I was able to analyze my first characters a little more and said:

"They are very cute"

With that, I realized my own mistake, the characters are harmonious and cute for an expressionist animation. I had to rethink my characters and see what elements I should give them. While thinking, I made a list of what I should and shouldn't do this time

- Don't make proportional and harmonious characters.

- Try to make the characters express more feelings just for the way they are.

- Create the characters with exaggerated proportions and some aspects I will try to deform so that their characteristics can tell a story through their own image.

One of the fundamental aspects of having managed to change my drawings and somehow bring expressionism closer to me were the artists I researched and their work.

With these drawings, I got a total of 3 good characters. The first one is the new drawings for the main character by not doing it proportional and harmonious. Then we have the drawing of his family, for example, the mother, father, grandmother, and brothers. The only one that's finished on that page is the grandmother and the father, the mom needs some work as well as the 2 little brothers. Then in the 3rd photo, it's just some tests with different characters and elements to see if I could use something from that.

All the drawings are subject to change.