Advent Day 3: Christmas Godzilla

For advent day 3 I drew Christmas Godzilla because of a Twitter weekend challenge to draw something monster-y.

Advent 1: No Self-Control Advent Calendar (Reworked)

For this year's Christmas I'm doing another advent campaign of one Christmas-y cartoon a day.

For day 1 I redrew one of my favourite gags from way back in 2011.  That time the style was basic to convey the gag - this time I went for more of an illustration style and I quite liked the retro looking result.

I have drawn other advent calendar cartoons like this one.

Flounding Fathers

This weekend's challenge was to draw historic characters as sea creatures and I chose the US flounding fathers (you see what I did there).  Some Most of the puns are a bit tenuous but I had fun doing it.

After getting hooked on the Hamilton Musical soundtrack this year I am slightly up on my American revolutionary history so maybe I'll start writing a whole Clamilton musical.

Great Scottish Run 2017

1st October is both the Glasgow Great Scottish Run (10K and half marathon) and the start of #inktober Jake Parker's month long inky marathon.  So for Day 1 I drew this true story about how I performed well because of the fear of the orange battery bunny pacer on him trail.  For the record I did do a PB and come in under the hour.

It's fun to break out the inks (mostly fineliners) for a month but I can't give up on digital all together so I digitally annotated a photo of a superhero safety pin as I searched for our secret stash that only come out for running events and emergencies.

Clowns to the left of me...

Can't resist a good pun.  Guess the song.

I think we've got mice

Here's a winner from the CCGB caption competition with the caption 'I think we've got mice'

PortraitChallenges (2017)

Over on Twitter Thursday nights are #PortraitChallenge nights where we all do a version of a famous portrait (photograph or painting) that @StudioTeabreak tweets.  The challenge for me is to try and recreate the style and form of gorgeous pieces of art which is not only good practise but increases your appreciation for the original by forcing you to look really deep.

I've been quite pleased with recent Portrait Challenges so I thought I would share my last four challenges which are all of females.


1. Amitra Sher-Gil's 'Kara Szepessy' (1932)

2. Gerald Leslie Brockhurst's "By the Hills"

3. Sharecropper by Elizabeth Catlett

4. E.D.Schott's 'Margit'