Blue sky thinking is one of those hideous marketing terms that means just come up with loads of ideas no matter how crap or stupid they are, but you can apply the concept to cartooning as a way of getting out of a rut and generating some new designs.

A fun exercise is to take a photo of a famous actor or pop star or just anyone who has an interesting face and just base a character on them. Here are some I did this week. Can you work out who these are based on? As Stan Lee used to say, a "no-prize" goes to the person with the first correct answer. BTW The clue's in the file name.

I created this "Big Bad Wolf" character 4 years ago for a client who decided not to use it in the end, but I always liked it so I decided to colour it up and put it on You Tube. The design will also be made available as a T Shirt from my cafepress shop. Go to http://www.zengrenade.com/ and click on the shop link or go direct to http://www.cafepress.com/zengrenade

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This cute little fella is my take on a new underwater RV

Here's a quick preview of one of the projects that I'm currently working on . It's an animation for up and coming rap artist Mike Alexander's MySpace page.

Let's kick this blog off with a couple of videos showing the "inking" and colouring of a character that was done for Paintball Genie. And no I don't really do it that fast.