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

A full colour version of indiana Jones running through the jungle holding on to his hat
A cartoony picture of indy Jones in the scene from the first film where's he's running for the boat. The caption is (in big letters) Jock! Start the engine! This is for #kidlitartpostcard this month
A photo of a freshly picked strawberry that is the exact shape of a Strawberry coloured bottom. Or a pair of fruity bum cheeks?
A colourful inked illustration of a fox character rolling on the floor laughing. He is crying tears of laughter. He's cute
An inked and coloured illustration for this month's kidlitpostcard day. It's a blue dinosaur, er, on a skateboard wearing goggles and with a jet pack. There is smoke and flames pouring out of the jet pack as the Dino zooms across the page. This isn't necessarily scientifically accurate, but it looks cool
An inked illustration of a gloopy character design from my latest project. It looks like he's bursting up out of water, or it could be lava. More will be revealed soon :)
A live pencil drawing from my sketchbook of my little boy resting during his Saturday morning football training
A coloured ink illustration in a cartoon style of Han solo on a tauntaun from empire strikes back. Caption is Han says 'i thought these things smelled bad on the outside' tauntaun replies 'dude, you can talk ...'
An inked cartoony illustration of a dinosaur with a jet pack, er, on a skateboard. The dinosaur is pulling a surprised expression as flames shoot out of the jet pack and dust flies out behind the skateboard
An inked illustration of a beat up old spaceship with bits falling off it zooming through space coming out of the screen. Inside are a human, Joe and a cute cheeky alien. From my Space Dude Joe story I'm working on
A sketchbook drawing from life of a parent at our children's swimming lessons leaning on a wall
An inked and coloured illustration in a cartoony style of a cute mouse character being chased by a hamster in a hamster ball. The mouse has a speech bubble that says 'Woah!'
Two pencil sketchbook sketches of my children's swimming instructor from swimming lessons, watching and pointing instructions to the class. Fast Drawing from life capturing the gesture in a few lines
A black and white inked illustration of a cool cartoony fox leaning on a pile of books that he's been reading. I thought this would be a good one for #worldbookday :)
A coloured ink illustration of two of my cartoony character designs, Mac the monkey and cheese the mouse. Cheese is sitting on mac's shoulders pointing to something off page and laughing. They both have big smiles on their faces. #kidlitart #illustration
An inked illustration (by me) of a happy fox rolling on the floor laughing so much there are tears coming off him.
A sketchbook page of 4 pencil on paper sketches from life of people at our children's swimming lesson this week
A inked and coloured illustration of a cool fox character pointing at something funny (off screen) and laughing. The caption says Ha ha Hah!
A black and white inked illustration of a slightly scared looking alien character wearing a spacesuit
A black and white self portrait by Herbert ponting taken in Antarctica
A black and white inked illustration in a cartoon style of a half shark, half human (shark head) character wearing a hoodie and a backpack. He’s walking to school
An inked and coloured illustration of my Mouse and Monkey character designs. They both look very happy….the mouse is sitting on the monkey’s shoulders happily pointing to something he’s just seen
A coloured inked comic illustration of Han Solo on hoth in his giant parka coat, riding on a cold look Tauntaun. Both hsn and the Tauntaun have a speech bubble. Han is saying 'i though these things smelled bad from the outside' the Tauntaun replies 'dude, you can talk. You haven't washed since Tatooine' which if you've seen the films is true, no one washes :)
An inked comic style illustration of Santa clause with a big grin
A black and white illustration of a cute space alien in a space suit. This is an alternative version to the one I posted above on a black background
A black and white inked illustration of a cute space alien in a spacesuit with a very surprised expression. The caption says 'Woah hey, it's postcard day. This is a picture for this month's Kidlitartpostcard day
A hand drawn and hand inked illustration for a birthday card. The picture is of a smiling young fox character with a happy expression
A sketchbook page of four poses from my young boy's early morning football session. Showing running, dodging, twisting and turning while controlling a football
A cartoony colour illustration of an anthropomorphic cloud with floating and a face. This one is sticking his tongue out and looking cheeky
An inked comic panel in a cartoon of style of the scene from the Empire strikes back where Luke has been captured by the wampa and is hanging upside down in his ice cave. As Luke is upside down his clothes are hanging down so you can see his red spotted pants - or underwear (depending on uk/us :) ) the wampa is walking into the cave saying 'hey, nice pants'
A cartoony illustration of a duck enjoying a retro roller skate ride while listening to a cassette Walkman. There are musical notes floating out of his headphones
A colour and ink illustration for this month's #kidlitartpostcard day. It's of a happy little green alien that has come to earth playing on a children's coin operated rocket ride as if it were the sort of thing he would ride on back home
A inked illustration in a comic style of Luke in the wampa cave from Star Wars. He’s dangling from the roof of the ice cave trying to reach his lightsaber which is starting to move….could be the force…. As he is hanging upside down you can see his red polka dot pants (if you are English) or underwear (if you are from the US)
A photo of a page of pencil sketches with some pencils that have been sharpened so many times there’s hardly anything left of them….but I still use them :)
A black and white sketched illustration of a cartoony style Ratchet from the ratchet and clank game series.
A photo of a cute white pumpkin with a happy cartoon face painted on it and cardboard bat wings that I made for Halloween:)
An inked sketch of a cute pumpkin character with a cartoony face - and this one with bat wings
An inked comic style illustration of the scene from star wars of princess Leia trying to record her message on r2d2 the speech bubble says 'how the &*#"! do you record on one of these?'
An inked sketch in a comic style of a bit wearing an apron serving up an ice cream. He has a hair cut that looks like a scoop of ice cream :)
A photo of work in progress of my own project, showing a stack of pencil on paper sketches of cute animal characters and an ipad screen of a cleaned up drawing of a mouse character who looks like he's scared of something
An inked sketch of a cute alien character with long ears, a big wide mouth showing two round teeth, a hoody, shorts and backpack. He looks like he’s on his way to school
A black and white inked illustration in a cartoony style of a young girl and her cat off on adventures. The girl is wearing shorts, boots, a hoody and a flying helmet with goggles. She has a big grin on her face
An inked head and shoulders sketch of Captain Underpants. You can see a bit of his cape flowing behind him, and a big grin on his face
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
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
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
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
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
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
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’
Some character expression sketches from a game I worked on called Squeeballs.
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.
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 :)
An inked illustration of a turbo toilet 2000 from the captain underpants books
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
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 :)
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