Recently, I had the extra fun commission of creating a happy little cartoon lizard mascot for a lawn care company. The client had seen examples of my work and the process undertaken to create a cartoon mascot and commissioned me to design a character that would not only feature on his new cartoon logo design […]
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 […]
More Hippo Cartoon Characters
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 […]
Designing a hippo cartoon character
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.
Whale Shark cartoon
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, […]
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 […]
Prehistoric animals
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 […]
Clownfish ahoy!
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 […]
