Beauty and the Beast- First Drafts

After doing lots of research, lots of unnecessary sketches that didn't help me; I knew it was time to just dive in and draw some characters and make changes if I didn't like them. I had wasted enough time and hadn't had any breakthroughs so just decided to try come up with my final designs. I could always make changes to them after. 

I decided to draw out the "Beast" character when he was human so that I could try make the transition as realistic as possible. 

I did draw him out in a Beast like form that didn't quite work out. It looked like I was trying too hard to keep it looking relate-able to the human version. So then I just decided to go all out and over exaggerate him.