Winklbean, Wooden Toys

If I were to create a limited amount of characters for my toys I’d definitely take a long time to set up a vision, explore and refine through sketching and desktop modeling. There is a lot of appeal to toys though when they’re sort of part of a large family, and each one has uniquely and spontaneously emerged from a single artist’s handcraft. Your process seems to fit you, although I’d always stimulate sketching as well. I can see these items appeal to young adults even more than to kids, part of it is probably the small eyes. I always relate larger eyes to an ‘outward-oriented’ character which would resonate with little children, and small eyes to a big brain, a more introspective and intellectual character. There is probably somewhere a good book about such theoretical understandings concerning character design. Anyone?