Need some humor on your water bottle? Or maybe your laptop? Don’t we all? Well, you are in luck because I just designed three hilarious stickers to add to your collection.

With these I was looking for humor and more specifically, puns. I wanted stickers that were odd (like everything I make) but also made enough sense to be displayed. I wanted simple, fun, and goofy.

Here are some sketches:

I really didn’t have very many good Ideas at first. It’s been a crazy couple weeks and funny, lighthearted jokes seemed to be alluding me. But the more I sketched and went for what I had, the more inspiration came to me.

Here is where I was at after a week:

I love the panicking key fob because it seems so applicable given the current world circumstances. (Anyone else feel like someone hit the panic button for humanity?) Design wise, I realized that the key fob face wasn’t as obvious as I thought so I decided to make some adjustments to the mouth and the key ring hole to be less distracting.

The soup was really in need of some love. I changed the font to be more uniform and less wobbly. I added some ripples and shading and even a lighter outline of where the soup curves up onto the edges of the bowl. I wanted the “O” to be a carrot with the intent that it would be intruding on the word “super” but it wasn’t looking right. I made a sinking “O” instead.

They ended up looking like this:

The turtle didn’t come around until the second week. He was an idea that came from a silly conversation with my roommates about turtle neck sweaters. Then naturally, turtles wearing turtle necks. Anddd here we are. This little guy was so fun to make. I even got to test out an illustrator function I’ve been dying to try!

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Making these stickers was a blast! I’m pleased with how they turned out. They are clever, funny, and stay pretty basic shape wise. What a “turtle”-ly “soup”-er project for this time of “panic.”