also showing off the initial refs i scribbled on paper before starting the modeling, and the color refs i made by tracing the t posing models!
my friend @purppura-muratti had kindly made refs of the characters for me, but i needed solid color refs for the texturing, and i wanted to tweak the colors a bit into a brighter and more cartoony style. after this i just used blender's texture paint tool to draw the texture on the models











