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Jonathan Nelson
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Character Designer | Illustrator | Graphic Designer from Kingston, Jamaica ✉️ mandelasmicrocosm@gmail.com
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Pick your favourite design!!

The prompt for the final day of #peachtober was spider 🕷🕸 I had three ideas for this one, any time I have an animal as a Namesakes prompt I try and figure out what direction to turn them to be non-traditional, I don't want them to just be a furry😂
This image features three character designs for a cartoon anthropomorphic spider. They each use the form of a spider in different ways to make unique designs. The one at the top has the spider upside down to form a humanoid body with spider legs sticking off of the back. Her legs are pedipalps with fangs for cute little feet. She is wearing some kind of high-waisted, pink bikini bottom with her fluffy chest sticking out of the top. Two of her legs double as long fluffy arms. Her head is formed from the abdomen, her eyes being covered under a fluffy bowl cut and her fanged mouth smiling happily. She has a ball of webbing as a hair accessory. The second actually only has the spider as her head, her body is just a dress made of a strewn web, like she's a little floating ghost. The spider legs have formed into dreadlocks and the abdomen is a big afropuff, tied back with a scrunchy made of webbing. Where the spider eyes would be are represented by a headband with four black jewels on it. She's also smiling brightly. The third uses the upside down spider idea again, but most of the legs have formed into a kind of skirt, above which is a tutu made of webbing. She wears a pink and red sleeveless top with a collar made of webbing as well. The abdomen head is featured again but the hairstyle is more bangs-forward. She has a ponytail made of webbing. She is smiling gently.
February 4, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Pick your favourite!

The prompt for Day 30 of #peachtober24 was "pearl" 🦪 I had two ideas for this one so I here's another twofer!
This illustration features two character designs made as personifications of the word "pearl" They both have pearls for heads. The one on the left has her eyes covered by half of an abalone shell, leaving only her full lips. She has a scalloped collar on a dress made of a similar shell texture, with long billowing sleeves and covering her feet. It's unclear if she even has a body under there. The character on the right has a shell doubling as long sideswept hair, revealing a meek looking face with big watery eyes. The meat of the oyster is also visible beneath, like an inner layer of hair. Her dress is a white dress similarly scalloped as the other and with equally long sleeves but the texture is based on the meat inside of an oyster. Around her neck is a pearl necklace. Her hand is up and reaching towards the camera with splayed fingers.
January 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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The prompt for Day 29 of #peachtober24 was "break" 💔 I have a Namesakes character from back in high school named Broken who was kind of just a punching bag character, this was a play on that guy. What if he was fed up of being broken... and decided to break out!
This illustration is a character design of a cartoon personification of the word "break". He's the kind of character where their head is also their torso like Darwin from The Amazing World of Gumball. His body is made of red terracotta actively breaking apart. He has a Sonic-styled goggle shape for eyes made out of a gaping hole in the pottery revealing two glowing eyes floating in darkness. He's gritting his teeth with determination as he flies towards the viewer with an arm cocked back. That arm is actively exploding with the hand completely missing and replaced with a blast effect and shattered scars. His forward arm is made of cracked pottery but it has been reformed into the shape of a large rocky fist. He's wearing an orange prison jumper with the upper half removed and bound around his waist by the sleeves.
January 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Pick your favourite design!!

The prompt for day 28 of #peachtober was Pony 🐎! I had four ideas for this one, some more traditional than others 😂
This illustration features four character designs of cartoon anthropomorphic ponies. The first has a big cute snout and is wearing a sleeveless pink vest and blue jeans shorts. The second one has a hairstyle formed into the shape of a horse's neck and head fastened with a leather bridle. She wears a pink tank top with a black leather harness on top and jeans shorts with the pockets sticking out of the bottom. The third has a pompadour vaguely shaped like the head of a horse, with a pink headwrap whose bow forms the shape of horse ears tying back a long high ponytail. She wears a long sleeve button-up tied in the front and with rolled up sleeves as well as a pair of bell-bottom jeans. The fourth is stockier but with a smaller head, closer to the proportions of an actual horse. She wears a pink, yellow and blue plaid short-sleeve shirt and jeans shorts. The colour scheme of everything is variations of blue, pink, yellow and white. They are all horse-girl coded lol.
January 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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I had three different ideas for #peachtober24 day 27's prompt grass! 🍃 I liked all three of them so I coloured all three! Which do you prefer?
This illustration features three character designs that are anthropomorphic interpretations of grass. The first has a grass skirt with dirt and roots for a belt. The second has a body made from roots and a head made of blades of grass, their ends becoming spiky hair. Their face is abstract and made of shapes cut out of the leaves. The third has a poncho made of grass and a head made of squiggly roots pointing up. Which design would you pick?
January 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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*in fact
January 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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This was one of my absolute favourite artworks of yours from back in the day, a big inspiration for me!
January 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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I just realized that technically this is day 26 of #peachtober! I already have a character named Stone so I didn't do any new art for the prompt.
This is an illustration of anthropomorphized stone. He's the kind of cartoon character where his head is his body, and angular chiseled stone with a cleft chin and heavy brow made to look like a stereotypical chad. His arms are thick and muscular made of similarly angular dark grey rock. There are two character illustrations one with visible arms and the other wearing an oversized, open, puffy jacket with a massive fur collar around the back of his head. The fur collar is stylized in chunks to continue the angular shape language. In both images he's wearing purple pants with a black leather belt and giant brown leather low top boots with a visible, white padded interior. In both illustrations he looks at the camera with a confident smile however in the one without the jacket he's flexing an arm and talking to the viewer.
January 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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I did not inface post the second idea the following day lol, i've been down lately and losing track of days. I really love this design though, I think it's really fun!
This is an illustration of a anthropomorphized backpack. Her head is a red backpack, with her face as the cushioned dark grey back of the bag. The straps frame her face like two curled bands of hair. The round panels and segments of the backpack make it appear almost like a headwrap, with side-zipped pouches over the ears like headphones and a big pouch on the front of the bag like a hair bun at the back of her head. She wears a white oversized hoodie, with a red pouch on her elbow and her hands are in its stomach pocket made of jersey mesh. Her pants are bluejeans and her shoes are chunky sneakers with big thick tongues, zipper pulls sticking off of the sides and a black bag strap around the back of the ankles. She's looking at the camera with a wry smile.
January 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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#peachtober24 day 25's prompt was backpack 🎒 I had two ideas for this prompt so I'll post the next one tomorrow!
This image features a cartoon personification of a backpack. Their body/head is a green school bag, his sonic-styled eyes sit within the strap at the top, doubling as eyebrows. His mouth is the front pocket, zipped open for speech and his nose is a rectangular patch for the logo. His arms are the straps of the bag, only connected by the shoulders. His fingers are straps with adjusters as knuckles. He wears tan cargo pants with multiple pouches featured on the sides. His shoes are chunky sneakers, also made to look like little backpacks. He is gesturing while speaking to the camera with an exasperated expression.
January 16, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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#peachtober24 day 24's prompt was turnip! For some reason I saw these two as counterparts, they're both different kinds of party dude I guess
This image features a cartoon personification of a turnip. His skin is the reddish purple of a turnip and all the white areas double both as facial features and facial hair. He has big curly leaves for hair sideswept but voluminous and covering one eye. He clothes are distressed - a white torn shirt, a long black coat blowing in the wind with sleeves caked in dirt and puffy pants with one knee blown out. He wears flip flops. He is jumping in the air and holding up the "rock-on" hand sign.
January 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Without an ounce of hyperbole... this is one of the coolest comics i've ever seen in my fucking life. Talk about comicscraft, what a reveal! The drama!
January 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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#peachtober24 day 23's prompt was party! 🥳🎉🎈 I love trying to find more and more interesting ways to make the facial features!
This image features a cartoon personification of the word "party". The character has a red balloon for a head with multi-coloured streamers for hair. The tie of the balloon doubles as a goatee. His facial features are just white silhouettes, streamer shapes make his eyes and a long balloon shape forms his mouth. He wears a puffy sky blue jacket as shiny as his balloon skin. Underneath he wears a yellow shirt and baggy blue sweatpants. His white shoes have long balloons tied into bowed laces like a balloon animal. His pants and jacket both have drawstrings made from white curly streamers. He's jumping in the air excitedly, holding up a hang-ten hand sign with his far hand.
January 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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#peachtober24 day 22's prompt was village 🏘 prompts like these where the concept is multifaceted are always the hardest. How do I represent an entire village as a single person? In this case I made the head be the home of the leader or "village head" as they're called 😂
This image features a character design for the cartoon personification of the word village. The character's head is a straw hut, the roof doubling as a hat with the puffy crown of a tree sticking out from underneath like old man hair. His face has a mustache and beard made from loose straw, otherwise his face is old and wrinkly with big bags and lines under the eyes. On his shoulders is a massive cloak enclosing his body and dragging on the floor. The cloak is made of the landscape of a village, with smaller huts clustered together on his back, connected with slender dirt roads carved out of grassy fields. At the cloak's end are wheat fields and beyond them a wall of clouds as a trim. The distant right shoulder has a straw-roofed well as a pauldron. Underneath the cloak he's just wearing a grass tunic and simple shoes of the same hay yellow colour. He peers up at the camera from below his roof hat, stoic.
January 9, 2025 at 12:43 AM