After some thought I decided to somewhat change my initial idea. Although it can be considered a bit late, I still haven't produced my animatic yet so I needn't commit to anything. The changes are to the location and subject matter, I've decided to drop the idea of the psychologist and instead have a dynamic between the Bear and the kid instead, therefore the location has changed to the kids bedroom. Below is the story board sequence, I'm entitling it, A Bears Rebellion  :

The scene starts with the Bear and the boy in bed. The bear suddenly gains consciousness and goes on a tangent to the kid about random issues he has with the living situations.

The bear continues the rant switching from one random topic to the next. The kid is speechless and in shock, he doesn't know what to do.

The bear turns in disgust, and pauses to reflect, he makes one last comment before collapsing to motionlessness ending with a smug troll face.

Setting and planning:

With the concept established I gathered some images that I could use as a reference for the environment.

To the left is typically the kind of chair you may find in a stereotypical psychiatric office environment and may be used as a base for my own design. Below is the typical setup and arrangement of the session in progress, small details such as the notepad in the psychiatrists hand and even his posture will be taken note of.

with a basic environment in once I wanted to focus on the design of the character. Keeping the theme of bears as central fol point I've come up with various designs and sketches. Some of these take into account that some children may decide to destroy their possessions and so a few designs are amalgamations of various toys and objects

 

The image to the left has some facial expressions and an early design of a bare who looks like he's been through the ropes, he sports an eye patch because he potential has an eye missing and has stitches to suggest he's been patched up a few times.

I created an alternate head here on the right, the ear looks like it's been chewed off, perhaps by a household pet such as a dog, also it has scuff marks. to the right of the image is the beginnings workings of a figuring type body.