Got in the mood to do some character design work up this past week and was kinda drawing inspiration from Kung Fu Panda, Samurai Jack, the 2012 TMNT show, and the Thundercats reboot designs. So I drew a ronin-like frog-girl thing?
I was going based off a poison dart frog, as those are some of my favourite kinds of frogs, which explains the last image, where i was playing with various colour various found in poison dart frogs. I ended up going with a basic green scheme though, because it went more with the earthy tones I went with for her outfit.
The first two images are her turn around sheets, one that is her in her base outfit, one that has her straw hat and cloak. She's kind of like an assassin type character I guess, so she's sneaky and fast on her feet. She uses a tanto sword that she wears on her waist in the back. I guess as a poison dart frog, she would also use poison darts or at least poison to an extent. Actually, her name references her species heavily - "kaeru" means "frog" and "fukiya" means "blow gun" and is actually what a Japanese blow gun is called.
So yes, her name is Frog Blow Gun or Blow Gun Frog. I'm very original.
The third image is some costume variations with colour variations. I based her outfit off both Japanese robes and kimonos as well as more simplistic kung fu outfits. I also looked a lot at Tigress' outfit from Kung Fu Panda, which is a very close-fitting, streamlined design that is still very elegant. It really matches her character.
And the last image is just, again, some colour variations found in poison dart frogs. I took inspiration from a handful of them to come up with the final scheme.