Little Box Of Ideas

Just over two days ago, I offered to giveaway a Dribbble invite on the blog and was overwhelmed by 51 fantastic entries. It was hard! I never realized how hard it would be.As I started browsing the links you guys left in the comments, I wished I had more than one dribbble invite, I wished

I am still at it, if anyone was still wondering where all my vector characters had disappeared too. Just not finding the time to post them everyday. This weekly roundup is an experiment with conical and tubular shaped heads and body perspectives. This week I have no stories to share, but I have fun names

A few months ago I refreshed my Twitter Background. I had been toying with the idea of doing a simple but striking mixed-media illustration for the background. When it was done, I received countless nice emails praising the design and many more wanting to know how I had achieved that effect. This cursory tutorial is

   Days 108-114 Character Names – Tunka, Tri, Sqa, Cica, Ulgi, Krunkle, Pinkston Froth I said I wasn’t doing storylines for these set of 100 characters. But boy, does my mind have a mind of its own. When I was doing this roundup, I couldn’t help my brain from concocting tall tales to place around

Day 33 – Pistache Pistache is Mercurie’s little brother. He is a Wooletto. They are a secret group of ice-cream cones who just can’t stand the cold!! They have invented thermal wear to prevent them from melting and still stay warm. Could they be responsible for Poppo’s rising temperatures? Time Taken : 30 minutes Softwares

Day 31 – Filor Filor is no delicate Fleur-de-lys. He lives in the pages of “The Little Princess Of Bohemia” and is a far cry from his delicate little sister fleurs. He is convinced that his place is not in a fairy tale book and so he has been training to grow big and strong

Day 30 – Floss Hood Floss Hood, the renegade tooth fairy of the Enamel Kingdom has developed a deadly weapon! Calcium tipped toothpicks!! Floss and her band of tooth bandits shoot their deadly arrows at the slimy, pink enamel monsters before they gobble up those poor teeth that arrive from Earth everyday. Floss is the

Day 29 – Stripper Remember Mr Couch Potato’s arch nemesis Stripper, the hoodlum of Marketville? Well, he is a very bad onion indeed! He is mean and angry and constantly threatening to strip his layers off. And you don’t want him to do that! Because he is the stinkiest, foulest onion there ever was and

    Day 28 – Orbi Orbi is a baby spaceship in training. She has still not learnt how to land and so Papa and Mama spaceship have given her a spike pad on which she can land with ease and not bounce off again. Today is her first abduction mission and she has been assigned

    Day 27 – Peblo The pebbles of Mongi River take their water skeeting very seriously! Peblo is the water skeeting champion of the Mongi river. He is a very special kind of double pebble, shiny and smooth as marble. He can perform some neat hopping and skipping tricks on the dark water’s surface. A

    Day 25 – Vania Vania is the baby of the 5 Babushka sisters who got separated at a carnival. While her 4 older sisters got sold to loving families, she was bought by a doll hunter. 100 year old Olaf takes apart dolls in his dusty old attic and creates ghastly toys with the

    Day 24 – Karate Remember Mr. Couch Potato, the Mayor of Organic Town? You might also remember that he was in dire trouble. Well, he doesn’t have to worry anymore. I have pulled out Karate, the soba noodle out of Ramenville to come and be Mr. Couch’s security head. Why, you ask? Well, Karate

    Day 23 – Dude It’s Australia Day today! Dude is lazing it up at the beach with his mates and some coldies. Just chilling, soaking up the hot Aussie sun, dreaming of big surfs and falling asleep. That is exactly what I did and it felt great! Time Taken : 25 minutes Softwares :

    Day 22 – Mr. Couch Mr. Couch looks after the other vegetables and fruits in Organic Town. After all, he is their Mayor. And a good one too! But Forky and Spooney, the metal bandits of Marketville have ganged up with Stripper the onion and his hoodlums to oust the good Mayor and take

    Day 21 – Kommenti "Ciao, io sono Kommenti!". I use Google’s translate service to translate "Hello, I’m Kommenti!" from English to Italian. That is my character for today. I like him very much, maybe because I have a fondness for everything Italian, but more because he came to me in a flash and he