This is Gibbles the Niblet. He is a tiny pencil-nib goblin who lives in an art studio, survives on failed sketches, and has absolutely no chill.
Gibbles was not designed. He just kind of happened. I saw a partially sharpened pencil on my desk, and a really bad drawing and then there was Gibbles.
He has a carved wooden body, a graphite crown, ears the size of dinner plates, and a mouth that is always open, usually chewing something he should not be chewing.
He eats failed ideas and coughs up better ones. His sidekick is Scrub which is a kneaded eraser puppy who erases Gibbles' drawings by sitting on them. It's a whole thing.
Gibbles is a mascot. A pencil sharpener. A designer toy collectible. A one-goblin creative catastrophe.
And his message is simple: you do not need the perfect tools. You just need the mess in front of you and a weird little goblin brain to do something with it.
I also wrote a little storybook to go a long with my submission. you can read it over on magicpath!
recraft link: https://www.recraft.ai/project/3072205d-5e59-4507-b801-406c2f8bbe64
Fun fact! the music track in the video was created using Suno from a little sound clip I recorded of me humming randomly. Just go make things!! It's that simple. https://suno.com/s/rTuDBJobnSwF1Csp
Very authentic! For years I've been drawing with pencils and never once thought about making it into a character! This is the kind of brilliant idea with a big impact. Simple, memorable, and easy to recognize!
Thank you so much! I give credit to my kids, they are natural creativity boosters. 🥰 They will always be truthful if something is fun or not. Gibbles passed the test.
Which ORBIT pulls you in: the quiet one or the loud one? ✨
One name, two directions. Same idea, an object in motion around a center.
A → Heavy extended sans on black. The orbit is built into the O, a ring with a single satellite. Compact, graphic, impossible to ignore.
B → Light, high-contrast serif with a hairline arc and a tiny spark. The orbit is a gesture, a trail you almost miss. Elegant, airy, a little mysterious.
The New Book of Beasts
A Medieval Bestiary of Modern Human Nature
What if medieval bestiaries described the habits of modern people instead of mythical creatures?
For the Recraft × Contra Styles Challenge, I created Illuminated Bestiary, a custom Recraft Style inspired by public-domain illustrations from 13th–15th-century manuscripts.
I used historical references from the Public Domain Image Archive to explore medieval animal anatomy, ornamental details, ink drawings, and muted natural pigments.
Then I applied the style to eight imaginary beasts, each representing a familiar modern behavior: overthinking, people-pleasing, doomscrolling, procrastination, ghosting, perfectionism, attention-seeking, and impostor syndrome.
The result is a collection of creatures that look like they belong in a centuries-old manuscript, even though their habits are very much our own.