Having worked with EA Games in PETSOCIETY game, the USP of which was sheer CUTENESS and, worked as a pre-production artist for an animated series for pre school children, I have , I believe , an edge in creating and designing characters that posses cuteness , either passively or imperatively, without loosing the core personality of the subject.
work procedure.
1. A brief from your end describing the character, target audience, type of output(vector or image), platform if relevant, and references if any that is close to waht you have in mind
2. based on ur initial brief I would do some varieties (photoshop concepts ) , which could subsequently be reviewed by you . It could be additions , corrections or minor tweaks which could be carried out in perhaps 3-4 iterations (worst case) before i proceed to the final render.
3. The final render will commence only when you have confirm on a design and that would make any changes in the render bare minimum mostly dealing with render style or variations in colors or so.
how can i send you the image u asked for(pardon my ignorance, my first bid on freelancer)