My name is Rico Schacherl. Welcome to my children's art portfolio. I'm probably best known as the artist of the long-running South African comic strip MADAM & EVE, which I've been drawing for almost 20 years.

I have also worked on a wide range of projects for children in print, television, animation and education. I work mainly in pen and ink, watercolours and Photoshop.

This sitel under construction and will hopefully be completed soon. The SKETCHBOOK BLOG link is active.

Feel free to browse through the collection of sample mages here and please CONTACT ME for comments and commissions.

 

All illustrations copyright © 2012, Rico Schacherl or Rapid Phase (Pty) Ltd. All rights reserved.

Huberta the hippo gingerly tested the water before she went for her first swim of the season.

Zippy the Pig just wanted to get out of the farmyard and go have fun!

 

 

 

Crackling really, really wished that Rodney would share some of his ice cream ...

 

Mollie was an adventurous girl and had no fear of heights.

 

The village chickens didn't really appreciate the finer points of football.

 

As the waves started getting higher, Thabo began to regret letting Mollie talk him into this fishing trip.

 

...and even though it wasn't nearly time for supper yet, Kitty had just one thought on her mind.

 

Elithabeth keeps out of the sun to protect her delicate skin and avoid getting wrinkles. She also tries never to frown by thinking only happy thoughts ...

 

Greenbeard the Pirate was stranded on a small desert island and was bored out of his mind with fishing.

 

It was Monday, and Phule the purple dinosaur was in a very bad mood...a real Grumpypantsosaurus.

 

Zinzi always does all her own robot repairs.

 

The herdboy and the old lion

 

It's a little known fact that Shnooks are absolutely crazy for ice cream ... especially strawberry.

 

Livingstone just couldn't put down the latest romantic adventures of "Pachydella, Jungle Princess".

 

The football team

 

The Big Five Combo -- the hottest bushveld jazz band south of the Limpopo

 

Cedric went out to explore the big wide world ...

 

The Mellow Yellow Gorilla

 

 

Loose and wild

 

COOL CATS -- character and puppet designs for e-TV.

 

JOZI ZOO -- animation character designs for e-TV.

MISSION MEERKAT - educational comic book cover.

OPERATION MEERKAT -- a page from an educational comic book.

 

An illustration from a TB prevention booklet.

MARINE BIOSCIENCES -- samples of an educational comic strip series to promote science, for Department of Science & Technology.