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16 Apr '19

Wine Surfers – Custom Illustration for Invitation

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Custom Illustration for a personal invitation based on photographs provided by the client. The people needed to be recognizable and the drawing had to have a connection to surfing and also to wine.

17 Oct '17

Friar’s Club NYC – Monk Character Designs and Animated GIF

17/10/2017 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: idmarsden | In: Adobe Illustrator, Advertising, Animated GIF, Business Illustration, Business Network, Cartoon, Cartoonist, Character Design, Digital Artist, Flash Animation, Freelance, Freelance Illustrator, Fun, Fun Drawings, illustrateur, Illustrateur France, Illustration, Illustration Deutschland, Illustration France, illustration newsletter, Illustration Schweiz, Illustrator, Illustrator Deutschland, Illustrator Schweiz, logo, logo design, Mascot, mascotte, Maskottchen

Friar’s Club – Monk Character Design and Animated GIFs
Champagne Juggling Monk

In 2012 I had the distinct honor of being asked by the legendary New York Friar’s Club, to create a cartoon character version of the club’s signature monk and a series of cartoons and animations for the official Friar’s Club website.

The briefing required animations and graphics featuring the monk in all kinds of different situations and poses to be placed on the homepage and also some special custom monks featuring caricatured faces of recognizable “brothers”.

The animations were to play as animated GIFs with a transparent background that could be placed throughout the Friar’s Club website.

Even the furniture such as the wooden bar and the pool table at which the Jackie Gleason monk is playing had to be recognizable.

As a previous member of the National Cartoonists Society (NCS), I had the pleasure of attending several Christmas brunches at the Los Angeles branch of the club, so it was a particular pleasure to be able to contribute to the Friar’s cause.

I created several more animations, not all are shown here.

All GIFs Illustrated and animated by Ian David Marsden

Please visit my portfolio for many more samples of my artwork and don’t hestitate to contact me if I can design some custom made illustrations or animations for you.

Link to Ian David Marsden’s Illustration Portfolio

18 Nov '15

Freelance Illustrator Ian David Marsden – Fall 2015 Newsletter

18/11/2015 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: idmarsden | In: Adobe Illustrator, Advertising, Animated GIF, Art, Artist, Book Illustration, Business Illustration, Cartoon, Cartoonist, Character Design, Corporate Identity, Design, Digital Artist, explainer video, Freehand Drawings, Fun Drawings, Halloween, Holiday Card, Ian David Marsden, Illustration, illustration newsletter, Illustrator, logo, logo design, Marsden, Mascot, Uncategorized, Vector, Vector Art, Video Tutorials, Whiteboard Animation, Whiteboard Video, YouTube

Can you believe that it’s November again? It seems like the months have just flown by since I last sat down to write you a few lines from my illustration studio.

I’ve been having a lot of fun doing freehand sketches between projects. Here are some glimpses into my sketchbooks and Moleskines.

I’ve been posting some of my doodles to my Facebook page and sometimes I also upload short videos of my sketching to my YouTube channel.

Please visit these links to take a peek.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IanDavidMarsden

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/idmars10

Last year Digades / Dfreeeze (Digades is the market leader in the field of remote controls for car parking heaters) won an advertising award with the print campaign and scribing explainer video animation Dfreeeze ” The Winner Takes it All“ featuring my artwork and characters.

This year we created a 12 page comic which continues the adventures of the main protagonists, Michael, Anne, Stefan and Julia and their Dfreeeze car heater remote control application.

I think it turned out great.

https://www.dfreeeze.de

Regular client Sanafort AG (a renowned Swiss producer of natural Reishi mushroom and other tonic herbs and food supplements) needed website and newsletter graphics for Christmas and the New Year and to advertise upcoming product launches and promotions.

As always they allowed me a lot of creative freedom and I think the results are quite elegant.

I have been in partnership with VDLR (Visuel de la Redaction) Montpellier, France (a collective of specialists for infographics and data vision) for a few months, as their main illustrator and scribing video expert.

I had a lot of fun being creative and providing the artwork on various projects mainly for the regional government…

…on a wide range of topics, from local traditional sports to mosquito control.

http://www.vdlr.fr

My very good personal friend Helmi Sigg, Swiss actor, comedian, writer and renaissance man has partnered with STEINER Meats to create their own delicious Swiss-made twist on New York Style pastrami.

He entrusted me to create the logo for this culinary delight which is aptly named ‘Pastrelmi’ after it’s creator.

Pastrelmi: http://www.pastrelmi.ch

The last few weeks have been very exciting on a personal level, as we have been preparing for my first exhibition of original drawings in quite a while.

Over 60 pieces of artwork are on display in the exhibition, organized by the Association Artistique Monet at the Espace George Brassens in St Gely du Fesc (Montpellier).

I am exhibiting together with famous French cartoonist Ptiluc and two German artists, Heike Negenborn and Carmen Stahlschmidt.

http://www.association-artistique-monet.fr/?p=5244

Here is a snapshot of the signed, limited edition posters with my artwork, which is available at the gallery.

The holiday season is right around the corner.

If you still need original cards or animations, festive illustrations or graphics for print or online, I would love to help you create them.

Elegant…

Or fun…

If you would like to see more of my artwork please visit my personal homepage at www.marsdenillustration.com

It would be my pleasure to talk to you about any new projects you might have.
Please call me at +33 6 42 49 82 11 or e-mail me at ian@marsdenillustration.com for a free consultation.

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11 Nov '15

Get your holiday artwork from Illustrator Ian Marsden

11/11/2015 | Comments: 0 | Posted by: idmarsden | In: Art, Artist, Book Illustration, Business Illustration, Cartoon, Cartoonist, Character Design, Cover Illustration, Design, Digital Artist, Facebook, Freelance, Fun Drawings, Google Doodles, Halloween, Holiday Card, Illustrator, logo design, Marsden, Mascot, Ritzenhoff

Dear Friends,

Can you believe that it’ November again? It seems like the months have just flown by since I last sat down to write you a few lines from my illustration studio.