You all probably remeber The Bully. He’s that kid always being too loud, face congested, always trying to make you drop that icecream you just bough, or make you pay for his, or drop your pants in front of the girls in your class if you didn’t. He always was bigger than you, sometimes had freckles, was always sweaty and looking for trouble, and you and your friends crossed the street when you saw him in a distance.
This one is a special type of bully: The Pool Bully. You would only meet him by the pools, (or rivers if you, like me, were lucky enough to grow up in a country and time where you could go bathe at the river and not worry about fungi, getting sick, getting sand allover, your hair messy, wading through mud and generally do stuff that could turn your childhood in a dream) splashing, yelling, kicking, screaming, doing basically what he was best at. Bullying (you) around.
These are part project I started a couple of years ago. I am trying to develop these in a series of black and white illustrations that will eventually be printed. Progress is very slow though, and these are the only three that made it up to this moment.
The Simpletons are basically what their name says. Simple character illustrations whith no other meaning in life than make their creator (me) pull handles randomly in Adobe Illustrator. With a very limited colour palette to reflect their limited articulate means of communication, they try to make up for their shortcomings by displaying a wide variety of gestures and facial expressions.
I was contracted by Famundo LLC to try to come up with a set of characters for Famundo, a family schedule management application developed in Rails that aims to help you better organize your family life. So the Famundudes were born -jovial, worry-free and colorful characters. Go see them in their natural environment at famundo.com.
Dorian Denes is an illustrator from Poland. His highly conceptual work is definitely worth having a look at. So go pay him a visit.