June Toons 2025 #12: Happy Fun Car

Martin · 22 hours (11:19 PM · Jun 12, 2025)
A cartoon illustration of a car dancing down the road, looking bubbly and happy. A black rabbit is climbing out of the driver-side window, looking down at the car with apprehension. The car is a shiny pink with a smiling grille and pale yellow eyes with large black pupils. It is leaning up on the passenger-side tires, with its other tires sticking out in the air. The car's license plate reads "HUGZ". The rabbit is wearing white sneakers, blue jeans, and a bright yellow shirt with a pyramid on it. There are three sharp stress lines emanating from the top of the rabbit's head. There are colorful pastel flowers floating in the air around the car, and the sun is smiling down at it. The road is curving as if it is being viewed through a fisheye lens and is a pale lavender. The sky is a bright light blue and there is a curvy, blobby white shape behind the car, highlighting its happy mood.

The black rabbit is back for today's June Toons illustration, this time escaping a runaway car that's just a little too delighted.

I often have a hard time making more complicated compositions like this work in a cartoon style, but I'm pleased with this one. I think the muted colors for the background really helped, and I'm glad I resisted my initial urge to make this in a retro comic style.

The name of the drawing is sort of a callback to an old SNL sketch called "Happy Fun Ball".

This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Syrup brush for linework, and the Soft air brush for shading.

If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:

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