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    Cartoons, characters, graphic & logo design and so much more!

    Welcome to the Ant Creations blog and website

    Hello! As you've hopefully deduced from the title above, this site is dedicated to showcase my work on the world wide web and also explain a little about the kind of illustration and design that I create. My name is Nathan Shelton and I have been drawing and doodling cartoons as long as I can remember! I have a passion for creating funky artwork, cool characters, unique illustration and great design in general! I've been running Ant Creations the business since I started illustrating professionally in the year 2000, and am now based in Market Harborough, Leicester in the UK. Anyway enough with the reading, have a look around, check out my blog below and my work throughout the site, and if you need to get in touch I would love to hear from you. Kick back, relax and give your eyes a treat. Enjoy!

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    Tuesday
    Sep202011

    Rambutan - St Pancras Hotel 'Thank You' Card

     

    I've recently been working with a great company based in Market Harborough, Leicestershire. The company is called Rambutan, and we have just finished a project together designing a 'Thank You' greetings card for a client of theirs.
    I created the image on the front of the card, which depicts the St Pancras Hotel in that there London town. If you've ever seen the place then you will know that the building is a real beauty! Very cool place and a piece of architectural brilliance. One thing it's not is simple, yet the style needed to be quite simplistic (fairly different to how I normally work).
    The images below show the vector design as I created it in Illustrator, and also a photo showing the card after it has been printed.

     


    As usual I would love to hear your comments. Cheers!

     

    Friday
    Sep162011

    Chiropractor Graph Design

    Just created a graph for Matt Sutton (www.suttonchiro.co.uk). Matt is a fantastic chiropractor, and he has come up with this idea of a graph as a visual aid for his patients. The image is designed to explain the process of treatment a patient can expect when using a chiropractor. It would actually work for most practitioners in a similar field of patient care I imagine.
    Hopefully it's quite self explanatory, but does make perfect sense if you've ever had any treatment from a chiropractor or similar health professional. Would be interested to know what you think, so let me know by leaving a comment!

    Wednesday
    Sep142011

    Promoting the new HR and Training division for Vanilla Recruitment

     

    Just had these postcard sized designs printed on behalf of Vanilla Recruitment, based in Market Harborough. They were needed to promote their new HR and Training division, and designed to look like a note on a pin board (I hope that's obvious!)

     

     

    Tuesday
    Sep132011

    Warning Zone - New Frog characters created!

     

    I have recently created a couple of new frog character designs on behalf of Warning Zone who are based on Frog Island in Leicester. A detective type frog was needed and also a version of the original frog (see this post for details) for use on a Christmas invitation.

     

     

    I created a couple of sketches for the detective and then several slight variations during the vector stage of artwork. The frog above is the final version and the images below show the sketches and the vector varieties.

     

     

     

    Below is the final version of the frog in a Christmas scene looking festive and jolly!

     

    Let me know what you think and please feel free to  get in touch if you would like to discuss any artwork you may need creating. Call me on 01858 462779 or email me at nathan@antcreations.co.uk

     

    Monday
    Sep122011

    Langton Brewery 'Scarecrow' Beer Label for Lubenham Scarecrow Weekend

    The Lubenham Scarecrow Festival was held over the weekend and this year a little bit of my artwork was on display!This is the latest design for a pump clip and beer label for a regular client of mine the Langton Brewery.The beer is called 'Scarecrow' and was created especially for the event.Here is the design that appears on the bottles and also the pump clip which is clipped to the pump on the bar advertising the beer...

    If you were there then I hope you had a great time and sampled the fine ale! Cheers!