A sort of... reference or model sheet (it's not really full of detail) for my random character Dale.
I know lots of people make piñata characters, but I hope mine turned out unique enough. He's a lot of things I like.

His creation.... well I really like piñatas. I used to have a few I kept (not to break), but I think they got damaged anyway- papermache is easily damaged. A band I like had an album with one on it, aswell as the drummer's bass cover. Aside from that, I was mainly influenced by the old Xbox game "Viva Piñata"... which also had an OK cartoon (I haven't seen it years). I really love that game and still play it, it has really great art direction: what I mean is that not just the characters, but the plants, trees, rocks, and even grass has a pattern to it. I remember an interview with the lead artist said he wanted it to look "hand-made" which he did very well- it's become one of my favorite games to play just for visuals. It's still not very well known I think... it was made after the game studio Rare was bought by microsoft, so I think many people didn't give it a chance since it wasn't Nintendo- or because this also came out around the same time as much more realistic FPS games, like Halo so... I don't know who was playing this on Xbox, but that era had a surprising amount of stylized games that nobody played. But that is only my theory. It's a forgotten franchise now, but it also had a good sequel. It refined lots of gameplay mechanics and added more cool animals... I can only imagine if we lived in a world where we got a third game... a lot of potential.

Okay, that's just a lot of history. Here's the character.
His name is Dale (said like dah-lay, I guess). It's a Spanish word(s), it's a contraction of "da le" which very literally means "give it". But it's kind of a loose translation really, it can mean a few things, but there's a song (it's not an official song, the kind you sing like happy birthday) about hitting a piñata and those are the beginning lyrics- so that's why it's his name. He's not connected to any story I wrote, but he has a personality. He's friendly, but still shy when it comes to others. Because of this, he tries really hard to seem cool and funny but nobody thinks he is. Oh, and he's a donkey. That's all I got right now.