Meet ‘The Nature Squad’

I should have posted this yesterday in conjunction with the World Environment Day. But, never mind as The Nature Squad is active all through the year. I’ve been posting character designs on my blog for quite some time. ‘Tingle’ is one character that I posted previously. Now, I’m lifting off the veil to show my creations.

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The Nature Squad is seemingly a tiny superhero team whose main objective is to save mother Earth from people who constantly contaminate it. It contains three creatures. Read more about the characters and their characteristics below.

Logo of ‘The Nature Squad’ is as follows:

The logo is made of custom font created by me exclusively for this concept. The logo mark has two leaves in water. It aptly suggests nature. The character names are written in the same type as of the logotype.

The Nature Squad comprises of three weirdos namely Mylo, Tingle and Clove. Two among the three are aliens. They have supernatural powers that they too don’t know much about. Most of the times, their powers backfire creating more trouble for the three. They don’t have the conventional superhero suits.

Mylo

Mylo is a human kid. He is 12 years old. Like every kid, he lives in his own dreams. He feels that the world is very beautiful. He is naive. But, he’s not as foolish as his team mates. He loves nature very much and feels closer to every plant, tree, pond, bird etc. He is a very friendly guy with no human friend around. He makes friends with animals and birds. Tingle and Clove are his best friends. He meets them later in the story.

He happens to know more about the world and wants to stop people from contaminating things around them. One day, he bumps into two aliens and makes friends easily with them.

Though Mylo is uneducated in the conventional sense, he has lotta common sense and deals well with situations. He even gets away speaking in sign language when communication with creatures seems difficult.

Tingle

My blog readers need no introduction to Tingle as I’ve posted twice about this character. But, I’ve never revealed about ‘The Nature Squad’ in any of the posts. Here comes more information about Tingle.

Tingle is a cute little alien. It is somewhere between two and a half and three feet height. In IQ level, it comes next to Clove. That means it has a better IQ level than Clove. He is a guy of an alien!

He’s always worried about his height and most of the time Clove woman-handles (!!) him. He has powers that backfire at him right in the wrong time! He enjoys pulling Clove’s leg but she being a li’l brainer doesn’t understand him which makes him the fool again.

Clove

This character replaces the previously shown character Woo. I wanted an alien than a worm for this character. Also, I shortened the team from five to three to make it more interesting with less characters.

Clove is an alien woman who’s a vanity freak. As Tingle is obsessed with his height, Clove is obsessed with vanity. Mylo gets irritated with these stupid obsessions of his team mates.

She is adorable but very foolish. Inadvertently, she makes fun of Tingle when he tries to make fun of her. Both of them are great buddies and love each other very much. She too has some powers but she doesn’t know how to use them. She always gets through by fluke or by crook!

I would be trying my hand at comics or comic-strips with ‘The Nature Squad’. The concept and the stories inherently contain the message not to ruin mother nature. Next time you throw a paper on the road or spit on it or cut a tree, mind that ‘The Nature Squad’ may be there to trouble you!

~ by Saawan on June 6, 2008.