“Who ya gonna call…” The movie Ghostbusters was released in 1984 and it blew my mind when I first saw it as a kid. I loved the characters and the scenarios, not to mention all of the special effects. My favourite was always Egon Spengler, with all of his clever talk, but couldn’t help always […]
Cartoon Jurassic Park Characters
As a massive fan of the Jurassic Park franchise (and dinosaurs in general), I decided that for this year’s Jurassic June I’d create cartoon Jurassic Park characters based on the principal characters. Each character design was created as a pencil sketch before taking them into Adobe Illustrator and digitising as vector cartoon illustrations. Each character’s […]
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.
Using cartoon characters for business
Concentration spans can be short and the quicker you can grab your audience’s attention, the better! We are naturally drawn (no pun intended) to fun things. Using cartoon characters in business works because simplicity sells!
Cartoon recovery truck logo design
I had a great deal of fun creating this cartoon logo design of a recovery truck for a local company. My brief was to design a fun cartoon logo depicting the recovery truck and two smiling occupants. The cartoon recovery truck also needed to be towing a large spanner, with sparks sparking from the trailing […]
Dinosaur cartoons
Really Nick, more dinosaur cartoons?! I recently completed a series of dinosaur cartoons as part of Jurassic June, an online celebration of all things dinosaur and what better excuse to draw a series of dinosaur cartoons? A little bit of a ‘mammoth’ task, you might say… a new dinosaur every day?! I wanted to create […]
How do you draw cartoon dinosaurs?
You may have noticed that I have an unhealthy interest in dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. One of the questions I always get asked is ‘How do you draw cartoon dinosaurs’? Let’s face it, dinosaurs are just AWESOME! From a young age, I found them absolutely fascinating and I always remember seeing a picture of the Age […]
