Totem Links

This is a listing of all the Totems from the "Spirit Animal," quiz. After taking the quiz, click on the links below, to practice drawing variations of your Spirit (Totem) animal. Note: the mascot links are for reference only, as they are copyrighted images, so they're  only to be used for inspiration). 

Mr. Wing's reminder to himself: Keep It Simple, Student (And yes, I still think of myself as a student...) (like Sandra Boynton), "100+ Character Model Sheets from Animated Movies," Preston Blair: Animation Resources, Character Design Model Sheets (Pinterest), or Cartoon Mascot Illustrations on etsy.com -- or a little more complex, like this site for Animated Character Design References. Then there are my two Pinterest pages, CaptivArting & Jay_Wing. You might not have access to Pinterest at school, but you should be able to see it at home.

Hard to believe, but there's a field of study called, "Mascotology," which ought to inspire us to draw more mascots, to sell mascot art for tee shirts and other imprinted items (greeting cards, coffee mugs, calendars, ect.)  to various high schools, colleges, universities -- or directly to the public, to those who attended these various institutions, but now work in industry (which is a whole larger community of potential clients).

One of my Cartooning "Heroes" is a professional named Ron Leishman. For the past several decades he's sat at home in his studio creating and selling "Microstock," (also known as Clip Art, or Stock Illustration), to multiple professional stock illustration sites, as well in the service I subscribed to for a few years, wherein Ron emailed a new "royalty-free" cartoon to customers, for 10¢ a day (I think it's now 10¢). His site is still going strong and is called, "Toon-a-Day.com." The links below marked, "R.L." are links to his samples of as many of these totem/spirit animals as I could find using Google image search. Ron's service is one of the inspirations for me becoming a Teacher, to train the next generation of Cartoonists how to create and sell their work, following Ron's example. Here's a link to Ron's Pinterest page. And here's my Pinterest. Ron's TpT site.

(Note: the numbers that follow each entry are my particular favorites; this is an on-going feature. The numbers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ... etc.) are links to  particularly favorite examples. The links labeled, "poses" are black & white line drawing links from Google.

If you want to get more ideas about animals, go to National Geographic Virtual Library. Search articles and images with their search feature.


More Disney Model Sheets from the Preston Blair: Animation Resources website | World Cup Soccer Mascots | Russ Cox ("Smiling Otis") Sketchbook. Chinese Zodiac Animal Signs
 Free Vector Graphics download, Mascots playing: Basketball, Soccer, Football, Baseball, Tennis, etc.   | since he has a helmet and skirt similar to a Trojan's, I thought I'd add a few images of Marvin the Martian, so students can get an idea of how to draw the helmet and skirt: 1, 2, 3, 4,  


*Waitaminit! Ron hasn't drawn a Killer Whale? But Sea World is here in San Diego! And my daughter started working there as a dolphin trainer two days ago, so we'd better draw some of them, -- Zoinks! Could we sell tee shirts and coloring books to the World Famous San Diego Zoo? Have I been missing out on opportunities all these years, because I'm watching too much YouTube, Netflix, Disney+ and Hulu? WT#!, Bubaloo!

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Click this image to see an example of how an individual Cartoonist uses his skill to create mascots for tee shirts and other products, like this soccer player.& Bird
image of 64 cartoon otters
Click image to see full-size.
Character Design Reference logo
Amazingly deep and long listing of Cartoon Illustrators, including the Artist of the Week feature, like Nico Marlet

The Gesture Fest is a great resource for beginning to draw your cartoons in action. Click the link to the left, to see details in the larger image.

*In some cases, animals & mascot links are for similar creatures, like fairies instead of butterflies, or this HorseFly