Toon Cats
Recently, there was a meme going around Twitter involving a challenge to color your own original character(s) in a color pallet featured in bumpers for Cartoon Network. I thought it would be a fun little challenge to try, but I thought I’d take it a step further by drawing one of my characters in a style that has been predominantly used on Cartoon Network shows for the past few years, known as Thin-Line Animation. The character I chose was Milo Waite. He always seemed like the perfect candidate to become a toon character, and I had tried to draw him a toon style a while back as well, but that didn’t exactly turn out right.
I even threw in a fun little “NS” logo as my artist signature meant to mimic the current Cartoon Network logo just for fun. But of course, in order to make this work I had to draw Milo in his original color scheme.
It’s a bit odd, but this drawing just seemed to come out a bit too perfect for me. I mean, it’s not at all my best work, but it’s almost uncanny to me how good he looks in this style. And it feels like a drawing I didn’t even do. But I didn’t stop there either. I figured I might as well do his sister, Maria while I was at it.
I chose the pose she’s in cause I wanted to try something a little different than just a basic standing pose. And again, it’s odd how well the style works. So, finally I decided to try my main character, Collin LiBee.
And again, not wanting to do a basic standing pose, I decided to do something a bit more “toon like” for this one. Involving a giant mallet and a broken printer. Those that have worked tech support before can probably relate to this.
I may do one more of these for another character later on, but for now enjoy the main cast of Fix-It Cat in the toon style.