>>27270954It's actually pretty hard designing a character which is meant to look like a mascot character, but then fit actual details into there while also showing it's meant to be a mascot, all while trying to make it not look like shit. Someone here drew in more red panda motifs while trying to keep the mascot idea, but the illustration itself didn't exactly stand out. It was just a red panda. It also really doesn't help that the things its based off of are simplistic. Like just look at
>>27271138, are you seeing much detail in the costume? Nope. Usually if they start adding a lot of details then the costume starts looking muddled. When its translated to 2D it'll obviously look a little
bare.
Maybe just a circle like this would be enough to make the body look less empty.