This is a bit of a random doodle, so bear with me on this one as there is a little bedtime story attached to it.
Last night, for some strange reason I decided to explore a long since abandoned part of my mind and came across a cartoon character I used to doodle when I was a kid. This is going back some 40 years to when I was 8 or 9 years old, so I thought it might be interesting for me to see what he would look like using modern technology - and here is Waddle reborn in digitised glory.
How did Waddle come about in the first place? Especially since he had never featured in any comics or on the TV. It was when I was given a hand-drawn birthday card when I was 8 years old and it had two characters on the front, one was tall and slender and the other was short and stumpy and although I cannot remember what the punchline was, I can recall them as being hapless mechanics holding spanners and hammers.
I fell in love with the short one and made it as my own "regular" icon for the next few years by drawing him in different situations - and then he got left forgotten when I hit the mid-teenage years in the '80's . . .
. . . that is until today.
Last night, for some strange reason I decided to explore a long since abandoned part of my mind and came across a cartoon character I used to doodle when I was a kid. This is going back some 40 years to when I was 8 or 9 years old, so I thought it might be interesting for me to see what he would look like using modern technology - and here is Waddle reborn in digitised glory.
How did Waddle come about in the first place? Especially since he had never featured in any comics or on the TV. It was when I was given a hand-drawn birthday card when I was 8 years old and it had two characters on the front, one was tall and slender and the other was short and stumpy and although I cannot remember what the punchline was, I can recall them as being hapless mechanics holding spanners and hammers.
I fell in love with the short one and made it as my own "regular" icon for the next few years by drawing him in different situations - and then he got left forgotten when I hit the mid-teenage years in the '80's . . .
. . . that is until today.
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