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Comic Strips Sustainable Energy

For France-based client Sustain D I was tasked to develop original character designs for two cartoon characters and draw a series of comic strips featuring energy saving and ecological tips and tricks.

Let the sun shine in and you don’t need to turn the lights on 😀
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Wine Surfers – Custom Illustration for Invitation

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.

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Cappuccino Cups by Marsden NOW in the Ritzenhoff Design Collection

As of this monday there are two new Marsden Designed Cappuccino Cups with saucers in the RITZENHOFF collection.
Coffee Love cup and saucer sets are super fun (and big! for coffee lovers like myself) and I personally find the whole range gorgeous, not only my own designs. 😎

Here is a link where you can see all 8 

https://www.ritzenhoff.de/kaffee-tee/kaffee/coffee-love-cappuccinotasse.html

RITZENHOFF Coffee Love Man Cup by Marsden

RITZENHOFF Coffee Love Man Cup by Marsden

RITZENHOFF Coffee Love Woman Cup by Marsden

RITZENHOFF Coffee Love Woman Cup by Marsden

 

 

 

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Illustration and Cartoon Art Instagram Feed

I recently opened my own instagram art feed with hundreds of my illustrations and cartoons. I am delighted that in a few short weeks it has already gathered almost 800 followers.

I try to update it on a regular basis and I also include spontaneous sketches and doodles and other fun stuff from my studio. So if you like drawing, sketching and doodling then this feed might be for you.

Illustrator Designer and Cartoonist Ian David Marsden on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/marsdenillustration/

Illustration Cartoon Sketching and Doodling Instagram Feed

 

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The Toyes – Website Illustrations and animated music video

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The Toyes – Website Illustrations and animated music video for “Smoke 2 Joints” Character Design, Cartoon Illustrations of the Band Members, Illustrations and Flash Animation By Ian David Marsden It was a great pleasure for me to create illustrated cartoon versions of the band members of The Toyes as well as designing a whole bunch of other fun characters such as smoking and dancing trees and several aliens in their UFOs for the animated music video for the classic Toyes Song “Smoke 2 Joints”

Still Frame from the video "Smoke 2 Joints" by The Toyes

Still Frame from the video “Smoke 2 Joints” by The Toyes illustrated and animated by Ian David Marsden – www.marsdenillustration.com

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Watch scenes from the music video and how I work inside Adobe Flash software:

I also created a whole series of illustrations for the official website of The Toyeshttp://www.thetoyes.com which were also really fun to create. There is an illustration or character for each of the song titles on their latest album. toyes-bandsite-marsden       toyes-website2-marsden Character Design, Cartoon Illustrations of the Band Members, Illustrations and Flash Animation By Ian David Marsden
Freelance Illustrator, Designer, Cartoonist and Animator https://marsdenillustration.com

Artwork © Copyright 2014 by Ian David Marsden
More information about Ian, a brief biography, some testimonials and a client list can be found HERE.

Contact Ian Marsden for a free quote for your project: E-mail

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