One of Thomas Bryson-King’s earliest memories is a vivid recollection of his dad showing him how to draw stick people. “I can remember drawing faces with arms and legs sticking out of them and my dad saying, ‘You have to draw the arms and legs coming out of the body, not just the head,’” he tells CR. Pencil drawing is something that the animator and illustrator, who primarily works digitally, comes back to even now. “It settles my mind a bit, because my thoughts zigzag all around.”

Better known by his moniker Everyone’s Favourite, over the last few years Bryson-King has built up an eclectic client list ranging from cereal brand Lucky Charms to Cartoon Network channel Adult Swim. Drawing on nostalgia and surrealism, his work typically consists of psychedelic worlds populated with an array of eccentric characters. “I like to make happy stuff, but something that’s a bit extra to reality or heightened,” he explains.

While he was always creatively inclined, he didn’t have a specific career in mind while growing up. “I just knew I enjoyed making stuff. Even before uni, when I was working in call centres and stuff like that, I would always be on Microsoft Paint making little things,” he says. “The career has grown around the hobby. It’s a sort of organic process that was never really planned.”