Hope it's fine to post some progress shots here. Don't know about the subjects yet, but just started with some style exploration.
Maybe it’s the messengers being gamified so heavily that it overlaps game art. I immediately think of comedy/parody RPGs that could benefit from expressive character portraits like that.
@elZach if you add a small selection of clothes/armor the character could be used in both modern and medieval settings maybe?
Auto portrait of account portrait :D
What is it? I see a bird, mermaid and deer but what is on the first image? Goblin or whatever it is...? I don't know, it doesn't look like any demon or something like any lower infernal creatures.... At the same time it doesn't look like higher infernal creature so what is it?