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Why Use A Funny Cartoon Animal in Business?

Every business could boost awareness of their service or product by adding a funny cartoon character to the packaging or advertising. Kids aren’t the only ones that love cartoons. Adults spend millions of dollars a year on promotional products that include cartoon animals like Garfield the Cat, Snoopy, Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny and dozens of others.

Why should these companies and the licensing agents grab all of the attention? They shouldn’t! With our characters you can promote your own business and save thousands of dollars that would be spent on licensing costs. All of our characters are royalty free!

You can also start your own entrepreneurial business with our funny and cute cartoon animals. Create a t-shirt business, a sticker company or invent a product and use our images to help sell them. Here are 10 great animals to get you started.

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There aren’t any characters in the world more famous than those Walt Disney characters that have brought smiles to everyone for many years. Walt Disney and his creative staff created and drew literally thousands of cast members in movies, TV shows, shorts, books, plays and more.

There are a few sites that list every character Disney ever created and we welcome you to browse their collections. We, on the other hand, have chosen to list the most famous of the famous and we’ve tried to bring you a few facts that not everyone knows. And because we are a cartoon website our list only includes the most well known cartoon characters and not any famous animated cast members.

Enjoy our list of the top Disney cartoon characters and link to this page as a reference. These are our favorites. Please do not copy and republish our list. Enjoy!

1.) Mickey Mouse – 1927
Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks together, created a mouse called Mortimer in 1927. Within a year they had renamed him Mickey Mouse and created several short animated films. The most popular short was called “Steamboat Willie“. From that point on, Disney created merchandise, films and an amusement park, all around a little mouse.

2.) Minnie Mouse

3.) Donald Duck – 1934
If Mickey is the most well known Disney character, Donald Duck is the most popular. He was created by Walt and Dick Lundy and has a little known middle name, Fauntleroy. Donald’s voice is the most identifiable of all cartoon characters. You’ve seen Donald on many Disney products but that’s not the only place you may have noticed him. Donald is also the mascot of the Oregon Ducks.

4.) Goofy – 1932
Goofy was originally known as Dippy Dawg the Goof. He officially became Goofy in 1939. Oh, by the way, Goofy is a dog.

5.) Pluto

6.) Winnie the Pooh

7.) Peter Pan

8.) Tinkerbell

9.) Cinderella

10.) Snow White

11.) Bambi

12.) Sleeping Beauty

13.) Baloo

14.) Ariel

15.) Alice (in Wonderland)

16.) Aladdin

17.) Chip ‘n Dale

18.) Dumbo

19.) Pinocchio

20.) Tigger

21.) Jiminy Cricket

22.) Mulan

23.) Piglet

24.) Daisy Duck

25.) Lady

26.) Tramp

27.) Thumper

28.) Pongo

29.) Mowgli

30.) Simba

by Curtis D. Tucker

How to Create your own Cartoon Characters
This quick tutorial describes how I turn a simple pencil sketch into a finished color cartoon logo in vector format. This is the process I use in getting a design from paper to disk. There are many ways to create digital vector cartoon art, this is just one of those ways.

The first thing to do is decide what you are going to draw. This guide works the same for anything you draw, from a simple circle to a complex illustration. For this demonstration I have chosen to draw a funny cartoon cow.

Before I start sketching I normally research the Internet, books and many other sources looking for design inspiration. I also make sure I have good picture examples so I can make a cow look like a cow. Very few cartoonists can draw everything from memory so most all use some type of reference material. A collection of pictures used by many illustrators is called a “morgue”. It includes samples of anything an artist might have trouble sketching from memory alone.

The tools I use for my sketching process are very simple and inexpensive. I use cheap disposable mechanical pencils to draw with (7mm lead) and everyday copy paper to draw on. I place a small light box on top of my drawing table and draw on the light box. I draw lightly at first to get the shape of my subject sketched out. I then erase and redraw many times on each part of the design until I am 100% happy. The cow’s hand in the first picture shows that I erased and redrew the hand multiple times.

I loosely sketch all parts of the character beginning with the head. I darken the design by retracing over it several times as I become happy with the look. I also play with thick and thin lines to add a less mechanical look to the drawing. The pencil sketch is the final rough for this design. I clean up as many guide lines as I can and erase any dark pencil marks.

Scanning the rough pencil sketch is the next step. The design is scanned using a scanner/printer, nothing fancy. I scan at 300 dpi., 24 bit color and save the image as a .TIFF file. I use a Apple computer for all of my work but that does not play a part in the creation process.

Once scanned, I open the .TIFF file in Adobe Photoshop where I begin to clean it up. I first convert the CMYK color file to a grayscale file. Do not use bitmap mode or you will get very jagged edges. Using the pen tool I go over the rough lines with black and switch to white when I want to erase a small area. I use a line with a bit of fuzziness to it so I can blend out the hard bitmap edges. I do this over every line in the sketch, adding thickness to some lines and making other thinner. Every line should be as smooth as possible. This is basically how I “ink” my designs the inkless way! It sure comes in handy when you make a mistake, just undo and the mistake is gone!

When finished the design is black and white and as clean as possible. All lines are smooth and there are almost no jagged edges. This is the final inked drawing and looks exactly like I had used an inking pen. Another advantage to this form of inking is that I can go back and make corrections by “saving as” and creating a brand new file if needed. I also don’t have to worry about my drawing getting ruined.

The next step is to convert my 300 dpi grayscale image into a vector art image. I now use Adobe Illustrator which has it’s own built in auto tracing program. I open a new file and place the finished Tiff file onto the page. I select the image and use the comic art setting in Live Trace to create my vector outline. Once the design has been outlined you need to click “expand” and it’s done. You should now have a very detailed, black and white, vector image.

I ungroup the image and delete the white square background around the outside of the image. At this point each part of the cartoon cow vector image can be highlighted with the pointer tool and color can be added with the click of a mouse. I sometimes make last minute changes at this stage. Notice that I changed the flowers on the cow and I also added a thicker outline around the cow to make it stand out more and repositioned the tail slightly. You can disconnect vector nodes and move them around if you need to change a design at this stage. Once complete you should now have your own professional cartoon character that is print ready and can be sent electronically to a client or printer.

Once the cartoon image is vectored and colored I am ready to turn it into a logo if it is for a client. I scroll through hundreds of fonts picking any that I feel might work for the design and the client. I then take those fonts and create the logotype using each font face. I throw out any that I do not like. I look for fun, cartoon like and unique lettering. When I have a typestyle that I really like I normally try to change the font in a way to make it unique to that client. I may stretch a letter, curve the words or combine two different fonts.

If a background is needed I create it in Illustrator. I create circles, squares, fades and other effects until I have one I am happy with. Circles are the most popular background shape for logos.

This is a bogus cartoon logo design I created for a t-shirt company. I used a circle with cow spots for the background and used two different fonts. The top font was curved following the circle path using the tools in Illustrator.

I now have a vector art design saved as an .AI file. I usually keep this as my original raw file. I also create a vector .EPS file in which I convert the text to curves to avoid any font conflicts with possible printers. I then actually reopen the design in Illustrator and make any last minute color changes and might add a little shading to the design.

This cartoon cow was created as a possible t-shirt design for a very well known t-shirt company. The design was not purchased but was later sold to an up and coming search engine website. Contact me with any questions.

Looking for a funny cartoon pickle or cucumber to use in your advertising? Our crazy green gherkin is the perfect character for your project. We think he’d work great on a food label, as a website mascot, printed on a t-shirt or part of a restaurant menu. This great clip art picture is ready to use immediately. He could possibly be the coolest vegetable on the planet.

With is crossed arms and the wink of his eye he would make a very memorable cartoon mascot. Wearing those brown combat boots and white tee shows that he’s ready to go to work for your team. Whether he is sweet or sour, your customers will enjoy seeing him promoting your next product.

Your purchase allows you to use Gherk, the pickle guy, on multiple projects for an unlimited duration of time. Our royalty free characters are perfect for graphic designers, business owners, teachers and t-shirt printers. LAC unique clip art drawings are exclusive to this website and won’t be found in the large clipart collections online.

The images on this website are slightly faded with copyright notices on them. Your purchased files will be much brighter and will not contain a copyright emblem. You are free to change the color or name of any character on our website, but even with those changes, you cannot copyright or trademark one of our designs in your name.

These characters are copyrighted. Please read the frequently asked questions before buying.

The cartoon characters on this site are copyrighted and may not be used without purchase or written consent. We will prosecute when finding stolen and unauthorized characters being stolen. Our characters may have global digital tracking codes on them. You don’t need to steal them, they’re for sale – at affordable rates!!

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Cartoon Animals and Pets make for really fun promotional characters. Our true pet lover and silly pets design is perfect for a pet store, animal products, food labels and other pet related items. The majority of Americans own pets which makes this design popular with a large section of dog, cat and other animal owners.

The Life’s A Pet design comes in a female version and a male version. Both cartoon designs have the same funny animals.

Purchase Life’s A Pet and use it on your marketing for an unlimited period of time. Royalty free characters are perfect for newsletters, websites, gift products and any other pet related business. Our fun clip art drawings are exclusive to our website so you won’t see them included in any other online clip art galleries.

This funny cartoon image is ready for purchase! A download link or actual files will be emailed to you. Order securely with PayPal or Credit Card.

All characters are copyrighted. Please read the frequently asked questions before you buy.

All cartoon character images are copyrighted and may not be used without purchase or written consent. We do prosecute when finding stolen and unauthorized images being used without our consent. Our characters may have global digital tracking code. Why steal them, they’re for sale – at affordable rates!!

Please link to our website, bookmark us, Like us & tell your friends… thanks!

If you would like to see a different funny cartoon people or animals added to our gallery please leave your suggestion in the comment section below.

Cartoon Pig Characters characters make the ultimate BBQ logo mascots. Our pig chef with hat and oven mitt is perfect for your restaurant, family reunion or BBQ sauce label. He’s funny and ready to work as your mascot. Famous cartoon pigs include Porky Pig, Piglet, Pippo and Miss Piggy.

Uncle Oinky is much cheaper than licensing one of those other expensive cartoon pigs plus you can use him on multiple products.

Purchase Uncle Oinky and use him on any promotion for an unlimited period of time. Royalty free characters are perfect for restaurants, contests, sauces and any other BBQ related business. Our fun clip art drawings are exclusive to our website so you won’t see them included in any other large clip art gallery online.

This funny cartoon image is ready to use! A download link or actual files will be emailed to you. Order securely with PayPal or Credit Card.

All characters are copyrighted. Please read the frequently asked questions before you buy.

All cartoon character images are copyrighted and may not be used without purchase or written consent. We do prosecute when finding stolen and unauthorized images being used without our consent. Our characters may have global digital tracking code. Why steal them, they’re for sale – at affordable rates!!

Please link to our website, bookmark us, Like us & tell your friends… thanks!

If you would like to see a different funny cartoon pig or animal added to our gallery please leave your suggestion in the comment section below.

Cartoon Dog Characters are some of the most popular advertising mascots used today. Famous cartoon dogs include Snoopy, Scooby Doo, Marmaduke, McGruff, Goofy and Clifford the Big Red Dog. Now you can use a funny dog for your next promotion! Royalty free images are the perfect solution when you’re on a budget.

Razzles would be great for promoting dog collars, pet beds, bone toys, leashes or dog food.

Purchase our Razzles character and use him on multiple projects for an unlimited period of time. Royalty free characters are perfect for pet stores, vets, dog pounds and any other canine related business. Our original clip art images are exclusive to our website so you won’t see them included in any other large clipart collections online.

This funny cartoon drawing is ready to use! A download link or actual files will be emailed to you. Order securely with PayPal or Credit Card.

All characters are copyrighted. Please read the frequently asked questions before you buy.

All cartoon character images are copyrighted and may not be used without purchase or written consent. We do prosecute when finding stolen and unauthorized images being used without our consent. Our cartoons may have global digital tracking code. Why steal them, they’re for sale – at affordable rates!!

Please link to our website, bookmark us, Like us & tell your friends… thanks!

If you would like to see a different funny cartoon dog added to our gallery please leave your suggestion in the comment area below.

Use our cartoon Irish bartender on your next pub or bar project. This funny cartoon character would work great as a mascot for signage, t-shirt designs and other marketing material. Serve up a great beer special using our Irish gent clothed in green derby and bow tie.

With your purchase you can use Cutty on multiple projects for an unlimited period of time. Royalty free characters are perfect for restaurants and pubs on a budget. Our unique clip art images are exclusive to our website so you won’t see them included in the large clipart collections in other galleries.

This funny bartender drawing is ready to use! A download link or actual files will be emailed to you. Order securely with PayPal or Credit Card.

All characters are copyrighted. Please read the frequently asked questions before you buy.

All cartoon character images are copyrighted and may not be used without purchase or written consent. We do prosecute when finding stolen and unauthorized characters being used without our consent. Our characters may have global digital tracking code. Why steal them, they’re for sale – at affordable rates!!

Please link to our website, bookmark us, Like us & tell your friends… thanks!

If you would like to see a different funny cartoon character added to our gallery please leave your suggestion in the comment area below.

Funny dinosaurs work well with almost any promotion or marketing campaign. Kids as well as adults love pre-historic animals and our cartoon dinosaur would be a great character for a t-shirt design, school team mascot or website graphic. Other famous dinosaurs include Barney, Rex from Toy Story and those wacky reptiles from Land of the Lost and Jurassic Park.

With your purchase you can use Deeno on multiple products for an unlimited period of time. Royalty free characters are perfect for businesses on a budget. Our unique clip art images are exclusive to our website so you won’t see them included in the large clipart collections on other sites.

This funny dinosaur drawing is ready to use! A download link or actual files will be emailed to you. Order securely with PayPal or Credit Card.

All characters are copyrighted. Please read the frequently asked questions before you buy.

All character images are copyrighted and may not be used without purchase or written consent. We do prosecute when finding stolen and unauthorized characters being used without our consent. Our characters may have global digital tracking code. Why steal them, they’re for sale – at affordable rates!!

Please link to our website, bookmark us, Like us & tell your friends… thanks!

If you would like to see a different funny cartoon character added to our collection please leave your suggestion in the comment area below.