Hi, I’m Heather!

Character Designer • Illustrator • Horse Girl

I’m a character designer and illustrator based in Toronto, Canada. Design is my specialty, and I’ve worked with animation and game studios around the world.

I’ve designed for TV shows and games, and have had the pleasure of collaborating with companies like House of Cool, Spin Master, Nelvana, Phantom Compass, Surfing Giant, and more.

Lately, I’ve also been sharing bits of my design process on Youtube!

Feel free to email me at: hello@heatherriversart.com

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Horses + Art

Paper Goods for Horse People

I’ve loved both horses and art for as long as I can remember, and my shop is where my two favourite things have finally come together! I started exploring the idea a few years ago through my Cantleberry work, and it has slowly grown into what it is today.

Whether you’re actively in the horse world or just love them from afar, I hope there’s something here you connect with, and that you enjoy my work as much as I enjoy making it. :)

Shop coming soon!

Check out my most recent work on IG!

Wolf character sketches 🐺✨ I’ve been sitting on these sketches for a few months, but realistically I won’t have time to finish this guy anytime soon. I still like these roughs though, so I thought I’d share them in the meantime. ☺
The suggested audio was quite relevant 🐶🐾 Anyway—I forgot to make a post for these dog sketches after I shared the video to my story haha. You can watch the timelapse for these guys and some other dog/fox sketches over on my YouTube channel~