Some of my early concept sketches of the character Sonora. Her portrait in my gallery has the character info in its description.

It's odd how Sonora came to be...almost a merging of three different ideas. My friend had for a long time been using a character specifically to define the love of music, so I decided I wanted one too, but never got around to creating one. Later the name Sonora kept floating in my head and I decided it was a good name to save for later. And, after that, I decided I wanted a goat character just for the heck of it. Since she lacked a name and a personality, I just snatched the ideas I had floating. I filled her with music and built her entire personality on that nature, and gave her the name Sonora, which fit oddly well given its allusion to sound.

I tend to think about personalities first, so the only thing left was to decide on her appearance. I particularly love designing clothing...and hair. Pretty simple this time - some well-fitting jeans and a ribbed shirt that also shows off those great shoulders of hers. The hair, obviously not so simple. And then there's that media player carrying a hulking terabyte of high-quality sound files. Talk about that love of music...