Namaki means sweetie; in my country we use the expression when we see a cute baby girl or boy. For the past five years, since I started learning how to draw perfect circles with a pen, I’ve had the idea of designing what you see now – this is just the beginning. Back then, I wasn't too serious about it because I didn't have any drawing skills; I was more into 3D than 2D. Whenever my hands were off 3D I would draw two circles close to each other, put two dots on the bottom of the circles (try it and you’ll see a funny face) and from there I had myself part of a character’s facial expression; little by little I was able to draw the head and the other parts (I still draw these characters in this way whenever I can and I collect the drawings in a folder). I decided to model one of these characters for a challenge.
LINK:
http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials_3/makingof_namaki/namaki_01.asp