Musical Inspiration (Jazz Diva)

Bit late but I found this in the visual diary and although I didnt do it specifically for this challenge, thought I'd put it up as I havent had time to post anything in a while...

May, Week 1: Cinco de Mayo

April, Week 4: April Showers-Raymond Betancourt

The Easter Bunny is not all that fond of April showers.

April, Week 3: Jess Morris - The 80s

The 80s for me was all about getting the perfect side pony tail, the Goonies and showing my little sister how to properly play with all of my toys. I have a couple more things I would like to do with this; more toys, New Kids on the Blocks poster, finalize the lines.. but I figured I should post what I have and make an attempt to catching up on some weeks I have missed!

CHALLENGE! April, Week 4: April Showers

I have to apologize for missing a couple really great potential themes last week.. This week lets acknowledge the last week of april with the theme: april showers!

April wk1: Louie Jones - Musical Inspiration

falling a little behind, but i'm starting to play catch up now. here's my musical inspiration. i was originally going to redo the Let it Be album cover in the fashion of Gorillaz' Demon Days, but ended up just turning in to a profile line up ;P

Beatles

April, Week 3: The 80s

A Day At The Zoo

This is what I immediately thought of when I read the title. :)

My monster pet

Question is who is the monster :)

Day at the Zoo: Gavin

haha, i did this after i went to the zoo a little while back. my old roomate has a bulldog we affectionately call the hippo

Day at the Zoo: Raymond Betancourt

Just a glimpse at an old family photo album.

April, Week 2: Day at the Zoo

You Can Learn A Lot From Lydia

Updated Lydia with muppet blush and everything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHXZA_5XMJ4

March wk5: Louie Jones - Carnies (American Carny) v.2

not the week three submission, but i actually took some time to paint up last week's carny sketch. it's been a good long while since i've attempted to go this extensive with the painting. it feels good to get my digital brush wet again ;P - i decided to keep it black and white, give it a more era-appropriate feel (and man is it nice only worrying about tone and not having to deal with that whole, COLOR thing, haha)

i definitely won't be taking all the submissions this far, but hopefully i can keep it up with a few of 'em..

April, Week 1: Jess Morris - Musical Inspiration

Musical Inspiration: Raymond Betancourt

A composer and his muse.

April, Week 1: Musical Inspiration

March, Week 4: Jess Morris - My Pet Monster

a bit late...

Carnies : Jared

ok so i just drew up these 2 carnies. Just thought of something simple like some odd ppl with nothing to special about them, a creepy guy waring swimming gear and a snake lady. not sure if i will do much more to this drawing cus i dont know were i want to go with it :P

Carny Romance

So Im not to sure what the etiquette is on this blog with regard to posts, but I have this tendency to be pretty short, sharp and not overly enthused with too much polishing:) So slap me upside the head (virtually speaking) if I overstep the mark:) But here is another take on the carny romance theme that seems to be emerging...

The Proposal

Here's my effort.

March wk5: Louie Jones - Carnies (American Carny)

laid out a sketch for my carnies - based off the classic painting American Gothic - this definitely leans more on the sideshow carny world, featuring a scruffily bearded woman and a pint-size strongman perhaps? i definitely plan on taking this to a more final stage.

Update: replaced with updated linework

March, Week 5: Carnies, Raymond Betancourt

Here’s my take on an old time carnie…the kind you might see in a movie yelling “See the show for just one dime, just one tenth of a dollar!”

CHALLENGE! March, Week 5: Carnies

March wk4: Louie Jones - My Pet Monster v.2

i'm pretty surprised that i was able to find time, or even motivation, to get it colored up this week - but i did it! so here's my same pet monster with a lil' color treatment! (still no name)

My pet Monster : Jared

Hello all,
My name is Jared and this be my fist post! Thank you Jess for inviting me :D
So this be my little pet giving me some lubbings.
Its been a while sense ive drawn much but I hope to keep up a good healthy habit of a drawing a week.
So I don’t know if ppl normally post the progression of there work but I thought I would for this fist post. I stared with a thumb nail on a posted note, then did a rough drawing scanned it and did the clean lines in Photoshop.
Not sure if I will color this guy later on or not. Only time will tell.

March wk4: Louie Jones - My Pet Monster

yaaaaaaaaaaay! i'm glad to see this place up and runnin' again (even though my participation was minimal to say the least :P) hopefully that can change this time around!

here's my pet monster. i wanted to put his (her?) name on the bowl but i couldn't decide on a name, jess suggested tootsie :) i like where this one went, so maybe i can get to finalizing it later in the week!

on a side note, i doodled this up on my new toy - the asus eee slate ep121 - first tablet to have a legitimate wacom digitizer (to my knowledge)! it.is.soooo.nice :3 check it out here if you don't know what it is:

http://promos.asus.com/US/ASUS_EeeSlate/index.htm

looking forward to seeing some more submissions!!!

Bathtime

Here is another take on the current theme. Been working up thumbnails and hope to do a colour version if I get time.

My pet monster: Lil' Bone Eater

Hi everyone, my name is Ray. I'm also new here, thanks to Jess for letting me join in!

Hi my name is...

...Urbanmonk and I am new here:) Here is my pet monster with a political theme. Its the latest celebrity dictator, Muammar Gaddafi. Well, hes not my pet monster, but Im sure he is somebody's pet monster. The CIA perhaps?

Dinneh Time.

I don't have a scanner at the moment but I got all excited and finished this tonight so needed to post picture of drawing instead. I cheated cause I already created this creature in puppet form and just sketched the finished project thats hanging in my room.

doesn't actually function as a puppet. Just cute.

My Pet Monster

hey guys, lets kick this off as active as we can. i did this thumbnail at lunch today to get my idea out so i dont forget

CHALLENGE! March, Week 4: My Pet Monster

The drawaholics blog is back up and running! ..So whats new? All challenges will now be random, not animals-only, in hopes to appeal to a wider range of artists. I have also given the blog a small make-over along with some tabs. Under one of the tabs I have started a collection of references and inspirations. If you have anything you would like to add to this section let me know and I will happily add it!

I hope you have fun with this challenge! New one will be posted up every Monday.

Should we continue?

I finally did my parrot for July week 4... 2010. Better late then never?

I also wanted to post and say even though this blog kind of fell apart towards the end of the year of 2010 - everyone did amazing! It's really fun scrolling through and seeing all the takes on each animal - AND seeing improvement through out the year! I am really sad this blog died. I would like to get it going again, but I need your help! Is there anyone out there that is still interested in participating? We have lots of 'drawaholics' but not too many people participated - especially towards the end of last year. What would make this more appealing to you? What do you think would make this blog more successful? I am always open to thoughts and ideas!

So what do you think? Should we keep the animal theme going? Keep the months the same type, but switch up the animal of the week? Or maybe switch to humans and do anatomy studies every week? Or maybe we can do completely random themes? For example, one week - draw one of your favorite characters from a show you watch? Or if you were a Flintstone character, how would you look?... If an alligator and a bunny had a baby..

What do you think?? :) If anyone out there still looks at this blog, now is the time to speak up! Please leave a comment! Even if you don't participate, but enjoy checking in on the art - let us know! I would love to see this going again!

baby mammouth

November: Extinct Animals, Week 3: Tyrannosaurus Rex

November Week 2: Extinct Animals: Woolly Mammoth

Dodo Drunk

Apparently this bird lived on fermented fruits.

November: Extinct Animals, Week 1: Dodo Bird

Oct wk4: Louie Jones - Platypus

platypus! one of my favorite animals :)

Jun wk3: Louie Jones - Corgi

waaaahhh, i haven't posted in forevers! but i just did this one for an upcoming art auction, and since it pertains to a past animal, i'll just go ahead and post'r up!

this here is my lil' corgi.

for more info on the purrcasso charity auction, click here!

my little platypus using the photo below. really a great and interesting animal!

October: More Mammals, Week 4: Platypus

The only mammal that lays eggs and they have venom!

Oct wk3: Jess Morris Skunk

Just a sketch this time...

October: More Mammals, Week 3: Skunk

Oct wk2: Jess Morris Walrus

FINALLY got around to doing one of these. I realized I am going to have to try harder to make time to draw, I really miss it!

October: More Mammals, Week 2: Walrus

dancing Whale