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Cartoon and illustration portfolio of Salisbury based cartoonist, Nick Gowman

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New Forest Activity Book

New Forest Activity Book

I’m very excited to announce the launch of something I’ve been working on with The New Forest Heritage, a brand new children’s activity book! This fact-filled children’s book is full of puzzles and information about our wonderful new Forest. The brief on my part was to provide a series of woodland cartoon characters, along with […]

Filed Under: Animals, Children's Books, Publications

More Hippo Cartoon Characters

Hippo Cartoon Characters Sketch

You may remember my previous post about creating a new female hippo mascot design, Stella? Well, my client was so pleased with the initial character design that I was commissioned to create some additional hippo cartoon characters. The purpose of these characters is to accompany blog or social media posts. So using our first Stella […]

Filed Under: Animals, Business Cartoons, Cartoon Mascot Design, Character Design

Designing a hippo cartoon character

Hippo Cartoon Character Design

I had a request recently to design a female hippo cartoon character. She needed to be friendly and welcoming, as well as instantly recognisable in busy LinkedIn and Facebook feeds.

Filed Under: Animals, Business Cartoons, Cartoon Mascot Design, Character Design

Whale Shark cartoon

cartoon whale shark

So why do a Whale Shark cartoon drawing? Whale sharks have always been fascinating to me, even from a very young age. The sheer size and distinctive spotted skin always made this a memorable shark species to me as a kid. Noticing that there is also an official ‘>whale shark day’ celebrated each year too, […]

Filed Under: Animals, Sea Creatures

Cartoon insect in amber

cartoon insect in amber

Ok, so we all know I’m a massive fan of the Jurassic Park movies… So, for a change to more cartoon dinosaurs, I thought I’d do a cartoon of the insect in amber that started the whole story. So what’s the deal with the insect in amber? Easy peasy for those who have seen the […]

Filed Under: Animals, Archaeology, Dinosaurs, History, Movies, Prehistoric

Prehistoric animals

woolly rhino cartoon

You’ve probably already seen my cartoon Woolly Mammoth and Sabre-tooth tiger, but have you seen any of my other recent prehistoric animals? These were great fun to do – take a look below for yourself! Ceratogaulus This was my first real encounter with this critter – Ceratogaulus was basically a prehistoric rodent with a pair […]

Filed Under: Animals, Cartoons, Character Design, History, Prehistoric

Clownfish ahoy!

clownfish cartoon

I’ve recently begun a new series of sea creature cartoon illustrations and wanted to start the series with a well known (and thanks to films like Finding Nemo) and recognisable spieces – the clownfish! About my clownfish Clownfish have always intregued me, even from a very young age, watching them swimming around in aquariums. They […]

Filed Under: Animals, Cartoons, Sea Creatures

Shark Logo

cartoon shark logo

I’ve recently completed the design of a shark logo for a client who runs a fishing channel, The Lawless Tide! The brief My brief was to create a dynamic and eye-catching shark logo design for a fishing channel. The shark needed to be leaping out of the waves, pulling a fishing rod behind him – […]

Filed Under: Animals, Cartoon Mascot Design, Cartoons, Case Studies, Character Design, Graphics, Logo Design Tagged With: animal, fish, fishing, logo, shark

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