Crayon

Wobbly outlines and waxy, hatched colour, as if each character had been drawn with crayons and then got up and walked off the page.

Six cartoon characters in the Crayon look, a person, a kid, a dog, a cat, a bird and a monster, with wobbly outlines and waxy hatched colour.
The six ready-made characters drawn in the Crayon look.

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What it is

Crayon draws every outline with a slight wobble, so the lines look drawn by hand rather than by a ruler, and fills the shapes with colour that has hatching strokes through it, like wax crayon on paper. The lines are a dark tone of each shape's own colour, the colours are warmed a touch, and the eyes are rings. The wobble is the same in every frame, so the character does not shimmer as it moves.

When to choose it

Choose Crayon when a cartoon should look as if a child made it, because a child probably did: a class story, a cartoon of a drawing, an animated birthday card. It pairs well with drawn or photographed characters made in the studio, since it sits halfway between a clean cartoon and a drawing. It is also a playful choice for a cartoon about drawing or art.

Every character in it

The person and the kid look like they were drawn in a sketchbook, their shirts full of crayon strokes. The dog and the cat have wobbly, scribbled fur that suits them well. The bird looks like a doodle in a margin, and the monster becomes the friendly kind of monster a child draws. Where the page's scripts run, the tiles below show all six, moving.

How it is drawn

The outline is 4.5 pixels wide at full-HD size, with a wobble of 2.6 pixels, in a tone of each shape's colour; the hatching is fairly strong and there is no smooth shading. The wobble and the strokes come from a fixed pattern worked out from each shape, never from chance, so a frame drawn twice is identical. Moves play exactly the same as in every other look.