Space Prawn Mascot Rough Sketches

This is an early concept I worked up for a recent commission to design a mascot for a prawn fishing restaurant in Guangzhou, China. The idea for the restaurant is that the customers sit around a pool full of prawns, crab and lobster and fish for their dinner. The English translation of the name of the restaurant is Prawn Star Man Prawn Fishing Restaurant - 虾星人钓虾馆。Eventually we went in a different direction but playing around with the more 'realistic' character from these initial sketches was a lot of fun.