Sketches ....
Unless The MOOKEMATOR is supremely confident your average MOOKEMON starts off as a sketch. This requires only some paper like medium and a drawing implement. I prefer good old fashioned pencil and paper and the addition of a rubber eraser. Ideas can be sketched virtually anywhere, anytime, you can get an idea on the tram, sketch it up while yer on the bog, draw it on a wall with paint, ideas can come in your sleep, when you're drunk or quite sane, off the TV or outta yer brain, while yer eating your brekky or milking a cow ..... infact I've got one now ......
Translating these sketches to the WWW is the next stage. Some methods of cartoonery involve the scanning of sketches but this is not the the way of the MOOKEMATOR. In his next incarnation as the MOOKETRON the old method will be ditched but this is not for the ears of mere mortals such as yourself.