Wooden character design of a monkey built from reclaimed wood planks, labelled 'wooden monkey'

Wooden Zoo

Services: Illustration · Character Design

A set of character studies for a "Wooden Zoo", animals built entirely from reclaimed wood, each with visible grain, joints and screws.

Character Studies

Wooden character design of an elephant, built from a reclaimed wooden shipping crate with a visible "FRAGILE" stamp — Built from a reclaimed shipping crate, its original stamp still visible.

Wooden character design of a seated monkey, built from reclaimed wood with visible joints and grain — One of the five wooden zoo characters.

Wooden character design of a rabbit, built from reclaimed wood with visible joints and grain, red painted mouth — One of the five wooden zoo characters.

Wooden character design of a tortoise, its shell built from a single block of layered plywood — One of the five wooden zoo characters.

The Brief

Whilst working at a busy animation company in Soho, London the boss one day declared, 'we have no work on today, do whatever you want but be creative'.

What Cumi Created

I had just finished a job which had used a lot of wood textures so I began to play around with them, seeing what I could make. I ended up making this series of animals.

Credits

Illustration & Character Design: Cumi