Color Inspiration: Monsters and Dubious Characters II

I thought it was about time we revisited Mojizu.com and shared some more of their wonderfully creative character designs. So to follow up from Color Inspiration: Monsters and Dubious Characters, here are 20 more characters and some examples of characters used in good graphic and web designs.

Creative Characters in Modern Web Designs

We've been seeing vector characters pop up as mascots for new web sites and they do a great job of adding a little extra personality to the sites. Smashing Magazine, showcases a dozen or so in their Isn’t it sweet? Mascots in Modern Web Design post. Here are just a few from that post:

Pasquale D’Silva - Darkmotion

Kent Pribbernow - Elitist Snob

Freelanceswitch

Octwelve

Mooourl

Meomi

20 Creative Characters from Mojizu

Hometown    Erie Swaps across eastern america     Likes    Singing David Bowie covers     Dis-likes    american idol and moist fur

 

Likes    Souls     Dis-Likes    Chicken soup    Personality    Sir Reginald is the half brother of Sir Walter Chapstick and is currently under the possession of a demon coincidently called Reginald. The demon dropped the last name as family names mean little to demons. He decided to keep the title as even demons respect status.

 

Likes    ice creams     Dis-Likes    vegetables     Super  Powers    eating ice cream

 

Likes    Submachine guns, frag grenades, rocket launchers and flamethrowers     Dis-likes    Little cute animals     Personality    Furious and insane

 

Likes    human skin accessories     Dis-Likes    AETP

 

Personality    kind of person who bores you in a bar philosophizing with you ,a little bit communist ,some kind of lazy     Likes    to swim in his ink, filterless cigarettes and sailor shirts     Dis-Likes    the dolphins, the seaweed, Punk music and washing his teeth

 

Likes    His Girlfriend     Dis-Likes    His Girlfriend     Super  Powers    None. Can make a mean lemon meringue pie though..

 

Likes    clumps of hair, medicine.     Dis-Likes    the cone.

 

Likes    delicious foods, ocean life, his kitchen     Dis-Likes    fastfood restaurants

 

Likes    ice, icicle, snow.     Dis-Likes    yellow.

 

Likes    Chocolate baths     Dis-Likes    Popularity     Personality    he´s a creep and a weirdo.

 

Hometown    The Seas     Dis-Likes    The ability to see, grab, or walk properly

 

Likes    Abandoned houses, tea and crumpets     Dis-Likes    Loud children, bright lights     Personality    Lord Reginald was a wealthy bank owner when he was tragically killed by a falling piano. He now possesses the bodies of unsuspecting humans, currently 9-year old Miss Wendy Nickels.

 

Hometown    The mountains of cold     Likes    Fresh sushi

 

Likes    speed     Dis-likes    Fslow stuff

 

Likes    Crushing snails and beach balls... and cars, etc     Dis-Likes    bubblegum

 

Likes    Meat     Dis-Likes    Spark

 

Likes    concerts, festivals, revolutions... and... groupies! yeah, but sometimes he prefer to stay alone     Dis-Likes    music made just for money

 

Likes    business lunch, happy hour     Personality    You know...his mother always picture him like a singer.When he said he´s gonna be a stock broker every one think that´s not a good idea.you know, for birds thats is not a respecteable career.If you want to make your parents happy you became a hippie or a rock musician.

 

Likes    Oranges and Sausage     Dis-Likes    Name calling and teasing     Super Powers    Super strength but lacks the will to use it

 

Create Your Own Vector Characters

Chris Spooner at Spoon Graphics has posted a great tutorials on How To Create Your Own Vector Cartoon Character and followed it up with Monster Character Series Part 1, 2, 3, & 4.

And Václav Krejčí posted a Super Cute Easter Wallpaper Illustration Tutorial over at PSDTUTS.