Illustration for brands

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A mascot other people can draw

Lesson 5 of 10 in Illustration for brands.

Checked against the makers' documentation on 9 October 2026.

Building a Brand Around Your Mascot with Dale Bigeni · Adobe Live
Lesson

Whether a brand should have a mascot at all is a strategy question, and the Branding course answers it in its lesson on characters and mascots. This lesson takes the drawing side. A mascot is a character that many different hands will draw for many years, in poses nobody has imagined yet, at sizes as different as a hoarding and a favicon. The handover is where a mascot is most at risk, when the second or third artist draws a slightly different creature and nobody has a sheet to check it against.

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  1. Question 1, locked

    What does a mascot's turnaround show?

    • The faces the brand approves for its mascot
    • How the mascot sits with the wordmark
    • The mascot at its smallest size
    • The character from the front, three-quarter, side and back
  2. Question 2, locked

    How did Sylvester daCunha and Eustace Fernandes draw Amul's girl?

    • As a grown woman in a sari holding a butter pack
    • As a small Indian girl with round eyes, chubby cheeks and no nose, in a red polka dot dress
    • As a cow wearing a bow tie
    • As a British girl in a white apron
  3. Question 3, locked

    Why does Dale Bigeni keep the lettering the same in every lockup of a mascot?

    • A client may one day tire of the mascot, and the name has to carry on without it
    • Printers charge more for each new typeface
    • The mascot cannot be redrawn once it is approved
    • Social platforms reject logos whose type changes

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