http://abduzeedo.com/100-crazy-skateboard-designs - while looking through this site of skateboard designs I came across an artist called Tim Wolff, aka TimRobot...
 "I’m a freelance graphic designer / illustrator living and working in Berlin, Germany. I do character design, graphic design, customizing and free art."

 

I find his character design style fairly similar to Kid acne... Like Kid Acne, he has a unique style which he carry's through all of his work which makes it easily recognisable...
His set of characters are very strange/individual with a definite graffiti style...

I like the idea of designing my own characters, I think it would be enjoyable and fun to create my own style, and maybe even my own set of imaginary characters...

I found my research about Tim Robot here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/timrobot/

http://timrobot.com/