In 2004 Warner Bros launched a new Scooby-Doo merch/style line called "Scooby-Doo A Girl's Best Friend". This was a line that was supposed to make Scooby-Doo more appealing to young girls, with heart motifs, plenty of pink, and an emphasis on Fun, Creativity, and Friendship. I recently aquired an official style guide for this line; a book that was sent to potential licensed contractor companies detailing the general style, tone, artwork, and rules for making merchandise in this line. The book came with a cd-rom full of vectorized images for use in merchandise and the like!! And I've exported them for you!!
This is the character art for Scooby himself, the only mainline character to be featured in this line. You can see his collar is now a bright pink, and his shoulder spot has been made firmly into a heart. He's got a lineless style with and emphasis on curves and angles that form hearts. It almost makes me think of UPA cartoons, but that may just be me. Note: I exported all of these at the scale they were originally at, so theyre all around 200*300 pixels. If you'd like any in a larger size lmk and I can export it as such, theyre vectorized after all!!
(check the reblogs for more art from this line)
Here are the "Design Elements" from this line, essentially stickers to be placed on journals, shirts, and the like. I exported all of these at double their disc dimensions, because 200*300 seemed tiny for this sort of thing. imo these are killer icons for scoob heads (that pink heart seems easy to make into a lesbian flag). You may notice theres some other animals there!! These are "Scooby's Friends" which I will be exporting now, so check the reblogs for them.
Here's the Friends in this line. Looks like a dachshund, a poodle, a scottie, a cat, a bird, and a squirrel. Oddly no butterflies show up in this section of files, even though they're prevalent in the Design Elements. Notably these are also tiny, I exported them at their original sizes, all under 200*200 pixels. If you want a larger version lmk, like with scooby!!
There's a section in the book for "patterns" but unfortunately when I load those files they only show up as black rectangles. I'm unsure if this is a file issue or an issue with thr program im using. The cd files are .eps files if anyone would like a chance to try and crack the code on that.
Was able to get the patterns to work!! Check the notes!!
Also since I'm showing the book itself, it has images of potential merchandise AND a color code section, albeit one that's in cmyk given this is for printing stuff. But it might be useful if you want to draw in this style!!
