Carvertical blob characters, yellow and blue

Carvertical blob characters, yellow and blue, flat, illustrated, vibrant

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Flat illustration of two oversized rounded blob characters, yellow and blue, each with a pair of black oval eyes, cropped against a pale blue field.

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Summary

Two enormous flat blob characters, one yellow and one blue, stand shoulder to shoulder and bleed off the bottom of the frame, with nothing but two black ovals each to carry the expression.

Visual description

A pale sky-blue background holds two solid-color shapes. The blue one is taller and sits right of center, a rounded-cornered vertical slab whose top curves like a shoulder. The yellow one is shorter, overlaps in front of it on the left, and its top edge slopes diagonally down to the left before rounding off. Both are cropped by the bottom edge, so only the upper bodies are in frame. Each carries two small black vertical ovals as eyes, placed high and close together, and nothing else: no mouth, nose, or outline. There is no type, no logo, and no shading anywhere. The palette is four flats: pale blue ground, saturated yellow, saturated blue, black.

Key takeaway

Character personality built from a silhouette and two ovals only. The overlap plus the height difference does all the storytelling about the pair, and cropping them so aggressively makes an ordinary vector illustration feel like a portrait.

Reuse notes

Good reference for a mascot system that must scale from a favicon to a billboard without redrawing. The eyes-only approach keeps the characters neutral enough to reuse across unrelated messages. Note that with no outline they depend on strong figure-ground contrast, so they will collapse on any mid-tone or busy background.

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