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Simon Credland

@simoncred.bsky.social

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Artist, illustrator animator and writer for books games and TV. Most recently concept and story artist on the new Wombles CG show simoncred.myportfolio.com

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Simon Credland @simoncred.bsky.social · Aug 7

Hi, I'm Si, an illustrator, character designer and writer.

After many tears creating artwork for games and animation (see more on my website)...

...now I'm moving into full time illustration so I can do more of this :)

Simoncred.myportfolio.com

#illustration #comicart #kidlitart #art

A cartoon-y colour illustration of a gold coloured fish with a very surprised expression on his face and bubbles coming out of his mouth. With a little watercolour blue water behind him. It looks funny

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Simon Credland @simoncred.bsky.social · 1h

Did this a few weeks ago…. A page of Chewie character studies :)

Happy Friday

#illustration #starwars #dailydraw #kidlitart #comic #comic #art #sketchbook #friday

A page of 4 poses of a comic style chewbacca from Star Wars. With him smiling, frowning, looking worried and looking happy. Pencil sketches drawn up in procreate

Simon Credland @simoncred.bsky.social · 4h

Trying out some of the new pencils in the new #procreate library.

This is Waratah, cool name, really nice pressure sensitivity for layering lines. I land of sculpt shapes when I draw and this has a good feel to it

#illustration #dailysketch #kidlitart #pencilsketch #comicart #art

A sketch drawn with a pencil brush in procreate on the iPad of a cute cartoon cat with big cat eyes and ears perked up

Simon Credland @simoncred.bsky.social · 2d

Yep it's a little different - I can do more life-like work... It's just more fun to work with stylised characters:)

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Simon Credland @simoncred.bsky.social · 2d

From one of my sketchbooks. Sketched this while on a bumpy train in north Spain last year.

#dailysketch #sketchbook #art #ink #lifedrawing #illustration #drawnfromlife #sketch

An inked sketch of a traveller on a train in north Spain that I drew in my sketchbook. She has a large backpack and is leaning to one side while busily looking at her phone. Drawn from life in real time

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Simon Credland @simoncred.bsky.social · 8d

Since posting this if had an idea for a gag where Han says ‘and I thought these things smelled bad on the outside’ And the tauntaun says ‘I was thinking the exactly the same thing, you haven’t washed since tatooine’

Simon Credland @simoncred.bsky.social · 8d

Woah!, its #kidlitartpostcard day!

Hi, I'm Simon an illustrator, comic artist and writer from the UK.

I'm busily writing and illustrating my own stories…..

I'm looking for a friendly agent :)

simoncred.myportfolio.com

#illustration #kidlitart #comic #graphicnovelart

An inked and coloured illustration of a cartoon Han Solo riding on a Tain Tain on the ice planet hoth from Star Wars, the empire strikes back. Han is wearing an enormous furry jacket and the Tain Tain doesn’t look too happy about being out in the freezing cold. This is a postcard for the kidlitartpostcard day

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Simon Credland @simoncred.bsky.social · 8d

Warm up sketch this morning. It’s a scene from Calvin and Hobbes with Calvin’s mum reading on the sofa. Amazing

#dailysketch #sketchbook #illustration #calvinandhobbes #comicart #kidlitart

A pencil sketch of my own taken from a pose in a Calvin and Hobbes story showing Calvin’s mum trying to relax on the sofa reading a book

Simon Credland @simoncred.bsky.social · 10d

Did this trying out some of the new #procreate ink and comic brushes - I used ‘Ambrose’ for this. Lovely and oozy with a little roughness, nice

Might tweak this brush a little but it is very close my my favourite tombo fude brush pens in real life

Simon Credland @simoncred.bsky.social · 10d

Sketch of the day…..young George Beard when he first meets Harold with his epic hair, love this look so much :)

#illustration #captainunderpants #comic #comicart #procreate #graphicnovelart #kidlitart #sketch #dailysketch #art

An inked sketch of George from the captain underpants books when he was very young and had a huge Afro haircut (which looks great)

He is sitting on the floor with his school uniform on and with a big smile

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Simon Credland @simoncred.bsky.social · 11d

Had this idea that made me laugh. Sketch of the day

#illustration #art #inksketch #sketch #sketchbook #kidlitart #comicart #comic #dailysketch

And inked sketch of a sandwich character (a sarnie with a face on the front, arms and legs) being picked up by someone’s hand. The sarnie looks worried ( he’s about to be eaten) and is waving one hand as if saying ‘noooo don’t bite me’

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Simon Credland @simoncred.bsky.social · 14d

lots of 3d blend shape squash-stretch facial expressions

Simon Credland @simoncred.bsky.social · 14d

Some character expression sketches from a game I worked on called Squeeballs.

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Simon Credland @simoncred.bsky.social · 14d

So there was a bowling mini game, baseball one etc etc.

I wanted it to be like Pokémon where you collect them to unlock new areas but there wasn’t time/budget for that. I’ll find some other concept pages for you….

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Simon Credland @simoncred.bsky.social · 14d

Oh hi, just read your question (i kind of broke my phone - long story), but yes this was from a game called Squeeballs, from back in the day….
It was to Showcase motion controlled gameplay so the characters are based on spheres/balls that you could bounce around, roll etc…

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Simon Credland @simoncred.bsky.social · 14d

Meet Crabby Joe, cute character design for Friday :)

#illustration #art #kidlitart #comicart #comic #graphicnovelart #cute #friday #dailysketch

A cute illustration of a cartoony crab with a round body and a spiral shell. He has a comic expression on his face as if he’s saying ‘Woah’. Inked outline, with a light blue colour on a coral-pink background.

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Simon Credland @simoncred.bsky.social · 15d

He looks far cuter than he does scary…

Simon Credland @simoncred.bsky.social · 15d

Sketched this in pencil, made me laugh so I inked it up…..
A chubby Wampa :)

I’ve done s whole page of these

#illustration #art #comicart #comic #starwars #dailysketch #kidlitart #ink #graphicnovelart

A black and white inked sketch of a cute/comic Wampa from the ice planet Hoth in the Star Wars Empire strikes back film. He looks far more cute than scary :)

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Simon Credland @simoncred.bsky.social · 16d

I inked a toxic turbo toilet 2000 as a present for a big captain underpants fan.

Great character design

#illustration #kidlitart #art #comicart #comic #captainunderpants #ink #sketchbook #dailysketch

An inked illustration of a turbo toilet 2000 from the captain underpants books

A pencil sketch of a turbo toilet 2000 from the captain underpants books

Simon Credland @simoncred.bsky.social · 17d

Neville trying to fly a broom for the first time, storyboarded sequence

There’s bits of Calvin (from Calvin and Hobbes) trying to ride his bike in there and some Linguine from ratatouille :)

#illustration #kidlitart #comicart #harrypotter #comic #funny #graphicnovelillustration #storyboard

A 3 image sequence showing a cartoony Neville longbottom from the Harry Potter stories trying, and failing, to ride a broom for the first time. The first image shows the broomstick shooting before he is ready, he’s just holding onto it, then he starts to wrap his arms and legs around it as it soars up into the sky

Simon Credland @simoncred.bsky.social · 18d

From one of the games I art directed, storyboard and final render of this little dude being fired out of a canon….

…he’s not that happy about it :)

#illustration #art #animation #gameart #kidlitart #storyboard

Two images, of a storyboard panel next to the final cg rendered frame. This is from the Squeeballs game I was the art director of (it came out on Nintendo Wii) the scene is a little cute round character looking worried as he’s about to be fired out of a canon - which was one of the mini games :)

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Simon Credland @simoncred.bsky.social · 21d

I'm happy with the twists and movement in this one

Simon Credland @simoncred.bsky.social · 21d

From a pencil sketch that made me laugh so I inked it up.

That scene in the first Harry Potter book when Neville tries, and fails to ride a broom for the first time :)

Bless him

#illustration #art #comicart #kidlitart #harrypotter #funny #graphicnovelart #comicillustration

An Inked drawing of the scene from the first Harry potter book where Neville tries to fly a broom for the first time and it flies off with him struggling to hold onto it

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Simon Credland @simoncred.bsky.social · 21d

Everything sounds better with a french accent

Simon Credland @simoncred.bsky.social · 21d

A page of morning warm up sketches.

I'll open a book from one of my favourite artists/writers and do a page of studies to understand why a pose works etc.

This was from cabin and Hobbes, the main movement, the FX, the emotion still inspire me every day

#sketchbook #art #drawing #dailysketch

A page of pencil sketches studying illustrations from Calvin and Hobbes showing him running, jumping, catching a ball (that tries to eat him) and blowing bubble gum that explodes in his facr

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Simon Credland @simoncred.bsky.social · 21d

@louiestowell.bsky.social this is for you

Talking to my children after their french club this week one of them naturally asked what 'to fart' is in french, it's 'Péter' - to blast. As in to blast from yer end.

So the already terribly named AI ChatGPT, in french:

Cat, I farted

Vive la phonetics

A screenshot from a Google search of how to pronounce ChatGPT in french, which is, cat, I farted

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