This is a character that I created in my personal sketchbook over the summer. I got a lot of the ideas from just some cartoons that I watched when I was a kid and then I recreated and morphed it into a brand new character. The base character that is from this is a villain from Codename Kids Next Door. The only characteristic that you can really pull out from this character that is in mine would be the "candy" beard (candy stuck in his beard). Then I turned him into some sort of crazy werewolf/pirate/explorer. This is personally one of my favorite characters that I created because of the eyes that he has. If you look closes they are like mechanical binoculars that actually come out of his eyes sockets.
My favorite artist that really inspires me in my own work and mostly that I just really enjoy is a designer/artist/ Steven Harrington. As seen below this is one of his most famous works. Both of his "key" characters can be seen in this print. In most of his works he includes that dog looking character and then also that type of like palm tree/snake looking character. The aspect of his pieces that really stick out to me and make me love them are how clean his strokes are. He does all of these with just paint and a brush but everything looks just so clean and almost like it is done on a computer. I also really envy him because he has worked with some amazing designer and done some super creative collaboration with things such as the olympics, Colette, and Coke.
How I found out about Steven Harrington is through a clothing company actually. My favorite designer, Ronnie Fieg, who owns and started the brand KITH did a collaboration with Steven Harrington, which I thought was maybe the best piece of clothing I have seen to date. He does a lot of work with clothing designer as well as have made is own vinyl toys, which I am very jealous of. If I was an artist I would want to do all the type of things that he has and does do. Lastly, I love the small little line and bubbled aspects that he puts into all of his work because I think it gives it so much more movement and makes it really pop out to the eye. I really haven't seen another artist that has the same type of style that Steven Harrington has. (Here is a vinyl toy that he has created.)
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