Logo Design for DJ Shadow Blaukempt

This logo design called for a character with an attitude. The finished design:

Here are the steps of the creation process. Based on the client brief, I drew these four characters.

The client chose the top pose and added a request for a weapon. I then produced these three variants in Illustrator. 

I recommended to the client that the weapon could be implied with the pointed jack of a pair of headphones. This is the final vector art and reference material.