Friday Inspiration: Caricature Video Demo's

Whenever I am going to do a caricature I  jump over to Joe Bluhm's YouTube pages to get inspiration. I love his approach and how he talks through would he is doing. Check them out if you are looking for some inspiration!

June, Week 4: Blind Date

July, Week 2: Jess Morris - Harry Potter

There are so many interesting characters in this series, but Hagrid is the one that has the most interesting shape to me and so much personality. I wanted to do a face study first and hopefully next to a full body one more characterized. With his pink umbrella and Fang of course!

July, Week 3: Captain America

Another good movie comes out this week, so lets do a tribute!

Friday Inspiration: Digital Painting Tutorial

I am starting something new and posting weekly inspirations. If you come across something that inspires you, please send me a link and I'll post it up a following week. Thanks for playing!

Digital Painting Tutorial
By Kevin Keele
Check it out at his blog!

June, Week 3: Jess Morris - Game of Thrones

FINALLY got around to doing a drawaholics post. The last couple weekends have been full of freelance work. I hope to do more sketches from Game of Thrones since there are so many interesting characters.. such a great show!

July, Week 2: Harry Potter

Anyone else going to see the midnight showing this thursday? I can't wait! Will be such a bitter sweet moment..

Hare-py 4th of July!

I drew this on my blog for Independence Day. For some reason that I can't remember, I decided to make July Rabbit month with some "Hare raising Tails", which is just me writing something random and absurd. (The spirit of Monty Python lives on!)

July, Week 1: Independence!

Wrong character, Mr Perlman!

To be honest I've never seen the series but I have seen the promos on FX. There's only so many hours in the day and as much as I'd like to watch them all I can't. Plus, I've got a soft spot for Poirot re-runs!!! I like switching from Dexter to Poirot, such a contrast !!!

June, Week 4: Sons of Anarchy

I am on a TV kick as of late (hope you don't mind me using them as topics), and Sons of Anarchy is a new favorite. Some great art pieces can spawn from that show!

Can you smell burning?

We're lucky enough to have seen Game of Thrones in old Blighty the day after it's shown in the States, usually we have to wait a month or so. I've always had a soft spot for all things fantasy and medieval so really enjoyed this and had to pick my jaw up off the floor at the ending. More please!!

June, Week 3: Game of Thrones

Way to bring the blog back to life Des! Great artwork!

This weeks topic is based on one of my new favorite tv shows, that has just wrapped up its first season, and a book series that has moved it's way to the top of my must read list: Game of Thrones. If you haven't seen it, check it out, its brilliant!

Mythical animals : Dragon

December 2010 : Dragon. My daughter loves Toothless, the main dragon in the film and watches it over and over. And no, she's not 7 years old, she's at university!!!! She's only just getting weened off Hannah Montana!!

Odd couples

May : week 2. Like U2 sang, "Better than the real thing", The 2 crazy looking princesses at that royal wedding looked like something out of a Tim Burton film and much more fun to watch than Wills and Kate. We're not all that mad in old Blighty!! Okay, we are, I admit it.

Musical inspiration

April : week 1. To quote Highlander (with perhaps less of the French accent and more Scotish!) There can be only one. James Patrick Page. How much air guitar I have I done listening to this guy!! Eye thenk ewe.

June, Week 2: Catch Up Week.. again.

Draw draw draw!

June, Week 1: Catch Up Week

Not many posts lately, so lets use this week to pick a past topic that you missed and was wanting to do.

I also wanted to bring to your attention the Muppet's T-shirt Design Challenge through Threadless. Check it out! It seems like it could be a lot of fun!

May, Week 5: Construction Workers

This is not a subject I would have though up on my own for something I want to draw, but these photo's were passed around work and I found them incredibly inspiring!

Australian Doomsday Cult...Travel?

I just finished this one on the Australian version of that doomsday Cult in America that reckons the world will end today. If Australians thought the world was going to end, we'd probably be happy to have a day off work:) I thought I could shoe horn it into the new theme of travel:)

May, Week 3 + 4: Travel

Hi folks!
I am very sorry for being so late on this weeks topic. I was out of town and didn't have access to the internet world. Hence this weeks topic: Travel. This will be the topic for next week as well so you have more then a couple days and also time for any past ones you would like to catch up on. Great work everyone! Keep drawin!
Jess

March, Week 5: Jess Morris - Carnies

LATE.

April, Wk4: Jess Morris - April Showers

I couldn't resist :)

May wk1: Louie Jones - Cinco de Mayo

still playing catch-up. here's my cinco de mayo sketch!

May, Week 2: Odd Couple

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!