Personal project. Cute chibi faces/symbols for some of my original characters from my project, Dragon Tamed. Simplifying everyone down to their face-shape, hair, eyes, mouth and some accessories was a nice challenge! Also incorporated their respective background symbols inside the surface area of the face/hair itself, to reinforce the designs' strength. For example, the heart-shaped highlights in "Heart"'s hair (similarly done on "DIamond", "Hourglass" and "Infinity Symbol"); the spiral(s) in the eye and hair of "Spiral"; the five triangles of dark roots in "Star"'s hair, like a split-up star; the matching shape of the hat brim on "Power Button".
The first purpose of these icons was to present the relationships between some characters in a charming, easy to draw and understand way, thus the second image. Then I thought it would be nice to make one for each main and secondary character!