A little animated jump I made a couple of years back when I was playing around with Harmony. #animation

Werewolf, orginally sketched last autumn, finally worked up into colour last weekend. #werewolf #skateboard #characterdesign

A little sketch of King Clawthorne from The Owl House. Another of the Animal Alphabets series I made last year. #owlhouse #kingclawthorne #kingowlhouse #animation

A couple of years back, I wanted to see if I could make a drawing in Photoshop that looked like an original animation cel from the 1980s, borrowing a little from Disney and Don Bluth films from the era. I was quite pleased with how it turned out in the end. #animation #characterdesign

Another one from the Animal Alphabets series - the Gruffalo #kidlitart #characterdesign #illustration

Fantastic Mr Fox from an Animal Alphabets series I did last summer. #fantasticmrfox #kidlitart #illustration #characterdesign

Some cheerleader gremlins. I've been working with dark backgrounds for drawing recently and as well as being much more enjoyable, it's easier on my tired old eyes too. #characterdesign #cheerleaders

Might be a bit late for #PortfolioDay. I’m Paul and I’m a Character Designer based in London. I’ve worked in Animation for the past 8 years. I’ve been an Art Director and Character Designer on shows such as Mr Bean, DeadEnd: Paranormal Park and Buster Saves Christmas.

www.pauljaynicholson.com

A dragon warrior from last month #dragons #characterdesign 🐉

Some work I produced on CGMA's Character Design Mentorship from last year. We were tasked with producing a mascot charatcer for a breakfast cereal - I came up with these little guys. #characterdesign #visualdevelopment #breakfastcereal

Best nine from 2023

Line up of characters from the Character Design Portfolio Workshop that I took over the summer taught by Disney Character Designer Bill Schwab. We were asked to design characters from Hansel and Gretel. I added the werewolf and centaur myself to create a bit of extra variety in the designs.

Back in June this year, I decided to do some more compositions of multiple characters. This was kinda fun to do as an attempt at putting five characters together into a piece. #illustration #characterdesign #metro #asleep

Drawing some duck characters today for a new project. Who knew how hard it would be to draw wings! #duck #woodduck #birds #nature #characterdesign #illustration #quack

Another character dug up from the archives - this time from 2021. I did this fire guy as a concept of creatures made from different materials. #character #characterdesign #fire #creature #instaart

I was sorting out an old disk drive the other day and found a load of old work on there I'd forgotten all about. I did these dragons in the style of Ronald Searle for a character design course in 2016. #characterdesign #illustration #dragons #creatures #pen #penandink #inkwash

Hi I’m Paul - I’m a character designer based in London. Just signed up for BlueSky - lets see how it goes. #characterdesign #illustration