Card game need design for character/logo

This is what a business in United Kingdom was looking for in their character design

We are a new start up based in London, we design and create board games and custome card games. We've created a new card game called Allegiance, it explores trust in groups using the simulation that the players have been kidnapped by an evil mastermind. They must complete tasks in order to escape.

We need a design for the mastermind character (who will double as the logo for the game), which will be displayed on the back of all the playing cards. The background of the card will be black. The game was loosely inspired by Dangonropa trigger happy havoc's mascot "Mono Kuma". We'd also like for the mastermind character to not be human.

We'd like our logo/character to have a similar essence, of something that initially seems to be trust worthy but have an undercurrent of menace. Inital ideas around the table were a simplistic "chibi" style animal with a cheshire catish grin. We'd like the character to be of a simple design. The card faces will be of a minimal design com… Read more