Anton Emdin's Illustration and Cartooning Blog

Illustration with The Drawing Book for a direct mail campaign for Oktoberfest last year. The type over the ribbon was done by agency.

Recently I developed a character for Kwasi Studios. Well, we played dress-up for his newest incarnation as an Ancient Roman soldier.

Looks like we’re heading towards Melbourne Cup and the Spring Carnival, as my agent spotted my Luxbet character on a bus yesterday… Also spotted: on a bus stop (thanks for the photo, Jason Chatfield)… … and more importantly, at the pub! That beer tasted extra gambly!

Here’s a character design for a web consulting company specialising in SEO.  The brief was to create a character to go with the company’s tagline “websites for robots & humans”; a cute robot that evoked an emotional response. Development: Roughs Here are a couple of rough sheets.  The first (below) was just for me… I

Here’s a fun illustration I drew for a Fuji Xerox print ad, published in Print 21…

Here are my submissions for the 2011 Australian Cartoonists Associations annual Stanley Awards to be held in Sydney…

Here is a commercial character design for MIGA – a medical insurance group through The Drawing Book and Hammond and Thackery (H&T)…

Comic strip for the Western Catchment Authority to promote its services to farmers and landholders. They wanted a flyer that would get the ideas across quickly, so the comic format was the perfect solution…

Wow. My head is still spinning from the news that I’ve been nominated for two division awards in this year’s National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards!…

This is a fun job I did a while back – a life-sized illustration for Coca-Cola, Lifesavers Australia and Wet ‘n’ Wild theme park in Queensland…