[DRAWINGS] Hand Tests and Face Changes

I have been experimenting with a monkey character as one of the main characters in my animation practice, however I have been thinking about other animals which could play the lead role. The face shape would stay the same, however I would give the character a different set of ears, indicating the type of animal the character is trying to portray;

[From the left] Top Row; Cat, Dog, Rabbit, Pig. Middle Row; Cow, Elephant, Hamster. Bottom Row; Human, Mouse, None, Monkey.

As you can see, there are many different types of ears I could give the lead character, however so far I only see a possibility of using 4 ears; the cat ears, the dog ears, the cow ears and the monkey ears. I feel that these sets of animals would appeal to an audience. I will draw a few concept drawings with these animals and see which ones work more.

I wanted to experiment with the body, more so, the clothing. I was inspired to do shorts, gloves and boots as this is the attire of Mickey Mouse, however I have experimented with the possibility of a shirt, gloves and boots, similar to that of the Warner Brothers, below is an example;

You'll notice that there are also a lot of experiments with hands, personally speaking I find hands the most difficult thing to draw, and 1920's animated characters have distinct hand styles because of their gloves and four fingers. I wanted to experiment with a few different hand gestures, so far I am happy with how they turned out, however I will continue practicing drawing hand gestures.