About me…
Hello. My name is Piers Baker. I’m a professional cartoonist. I began my career as a graphic designer, designing lolly wrappers for Unilever’s Walls’ Ice Cream.
Keen to follow my dream of drawing cartoons for a living I moved on to illustrating kids’ schoolbooks and then a comic strip for the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) called ‘Stormy Stan the Lifeboat Man’. Ollie & Quentin are characters borne out of that comic. (Ollie was called Eric then).
Ollie & Quentin was distributed worldwide by King Features Syndicate between 2008 and 2012.
I currently run Doodle Whiteboard, my whiteboard animation video business and SVG Doodle Whiteboard, my cartoon image library website.
A champion 400m sprinter in my youth, I’ve now swapped my running shoes for an electric unicycle!
I’m currently playing around with ai image and video generation. Just for fun. I’ve always wanted to see what Ollie and Quentin would look like if they were animated. Here’s my first attempt…
I’ve also created a back story and synopsis for ‘The Last Life’, a story about a man with an incredible gift that leads him to the greatest discovery of all time… The Meaning of Life.
I have two wonderful, grown up children and live the beautiful Renaissance city of Florence, Italy with my super-gorgeous wife.