Ice Cream (Part 3) (Patreon)

Since I'd hit a wall with the Mech's design, I went back to working on the ice cream girl.  During this stage, I mostly focused on her outfit and color palette.  With a character that's made of ice cream, the colors take on a whole new significance since they're directly linked to flavor.  A fudge ice cream character is gonna have a completely different disposition than a mint one.

During this time, I also developed some of her background:

She lives on the outskirts of a settlement, working as a rancher who primarily raises Gummy Bears--pesky critters that burrow into ice cream people, but are full of nutritious sugar.  Besides just breeding them, she often goes out into the wild with her mech to search for them.  While she loves her work, she often worries that other ice cream people look down on her for it.  It's not a terribly glamorous job.