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Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2018 3:39 pm
by Mr. Big
So here's something that I want to try out, TOON JUNE! You basically draw cartoony stuff for a whole month.
Here are the prompts.
There's
a casual edition as well.
Any artists here want to try it out?
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2018 3:42 pm
by Mr. Big
Day 1: My favorite cartoon character.
I had a hard time choosing this one. I narrowed it down to Rocko and Super Chicken, but went with the latter because I figured nobody else was going to draw him.
I knew the job was dangerous when I took it.
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2018 3:44 pm
by Mr. Big
Day 2: My least favorite cartoon character.
Again, another difficult choice. I considered Johnny Test, Scrappy Doo, and others, but went with Roger the alien. The character is such a sociopathic maniac that it's a bit hard to find him endearing.
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2018 4:19 pm
by Perrydotto
I would still choose Peter or Brian over him in terms of who is the worst but basically any McFarlane character is fine IMO
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2018 4:26 pm
by Mr. Big
Perrydotto wrote: ↑Sat Jun 02, 2018 4:19 pm
I would still choose Peter or Brian over him in terms of who is the worst but basically any McFarlane character is fine IMO
Yeah, I also considered them as well. Basically, all McFarlane characters are terrible and it's hard to choose which one is worse
I guess it really depends on what bugs you the most.
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2018 12:48 am
by Mr. Big
Day 3:Draw a Cartoon Character that debuted in the 1910s/20s.
Everyone’s favorite black-and-white cat, Felix!
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2018 11:19 am
by Mr. Big
Day 4: Cartoon character that debuted in the 1930s:
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2018 11:19 am
by Mr. Big
Day 5: Cartoon character that debuted in the 1940s:
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2018 7:00 am
by Madeline
Mr. Big wrote: ↑Tue Jun 05, 2018 11:19 am
Day 5: Cartoon character that debuted in the 1940s:
Poor coyote
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2018 9:20 pm
by Mr. Big
Day 6: Cartoon character from the 1950s:
El Kabong! *boing*
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2018 9:21 pm
by Mr. Big
Toon June Day 7: Cartoon character from the 1960s:
The Inspector, looking for clues.
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 10:21 am
by Mr. Big
Toon June Day 8: Draw a cartoon character from the 1980s:
The prompts skipped over 1970s, but I drew one anyway:
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 10:21 am
by Mr. Big
Toon June Day 9: Draw a cartoon character from the 1990s:
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 10:22 am
by Mr. Big
Toon June Day 10: Adapt your character into the rubberhose style:
Princess Kat as if she was a 1930s character
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 5:41 pm
by Mr. Big
Toon June Day 11: Draw your character in the style of a Golden Age theatrical cartoon
Princess Kat in a Tom and Jerry-ish design
She actually looks like a cat now
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 3:27 am
by Mr. Big
Toon June Day 12: Your character in the limited animation style.
Drew Princess Kat in the Total Television (Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo) style. This was a bit hard because all of my characters look like they came from a limited animation show.
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2018 12:59 pm
by Mr. Big
Toon June Day 13: Adapt your character in the design-centric UPA style. Here's Princess Kat if she would appear in "Tom Terrific" (which was made at Terrytoons, but Gene Deitch worked at UPA so it still counts)
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:03 pm
by West Filly
I felt like drawing but had no idea what to draw so I thought I'd catch up with this. I don't have anywhere near the knowledge on the history of cartoons ans Bakertoons does, meaning some of these are the result of google searches. Also sometimes I've drawn comic book characters, which arguably aren't cartoons, but whatever I had fun.
Favourite character
There's an obvious answer here.
Least Favourite Character
In all fairness we're meant to not like her.
1920s
Scouring through some Wikipedia lists I stumbled upon Flapper Fanny Says. She was a cartoon that embodied the fashion styles at the time. Every cartoon was a single panel of Fanny in a new outfit, captioned with a contemporary witticism.
Here's an example.
1930s
Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. Apparently the first female comic book hero to have her own title. The more I contemplate her design, the more I wonder whether this first for women was really
for women at all.
1940s
Walt Disney's tragic deer thing.
I couldn't find anything interesting in the 1950s, but I realised that this challenge missed out the 70s. I skipped the 50s and included the 70s later.
1960s
Arguably the beginning of mankind's downfall.
1970s
Officer chin
1980s
I wasn't an 80s kid but I read my cousin's Hellblazer comics in my childhood.
1990s
While drawing Spinelli it dawned on me that Sticks from Sonic Boom is a total ripoff, down to the weird sideways hair buns.
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 7:01 pm
by Mr. Big
These are great! Neat interpretations of the characters
West Filly wrote: ↑Thu Jun 14, 2018 6:03 pm
Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. Apparently the first female comic book hero to have her own title. The more I contemplate her design, the more I wonder whether this first for women was really
for women at all.
It's a safe bet that a lot of early female cartoon characters, even the main characters, were definitely drawn with male gaze in mind
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 7:13 pm
by West Filly
Last one before I go to bed. Inkblot/rubberhose style
I borrowed heavily from Olive Oyl and Betty Boop
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 8:46 pm
by Mr. Big
Toon June Day 14: Adapt your character in a wild and crazy style that gives no hecks.
Drew Princess Kat in a Pat Ventura/David Feiss style.
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 12:47 am
by Mr. Big
Day 15: Princess Kat in anime style.
Was trying to do a "Gutsy Frog" style, but it ended up looking like "Urusei Yatsura"
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 11:54 pm
by Mr. Big
Toon June Day 16: Adapt your character in a webtoon style
This is probably the creepiest drawing of Kat I've ever done.
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2018 7:13 pm
by West Filly
Still playing catch up. Here's an attempt at that early Warner Brothers' "Golden Age" style.
Lord no
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2018 7:13 pm
by West Filly
Mr. Big wrote: ↑Fri Jun 15, 2018 11:54 pm
Toon June Day 16: Adapt your character in a webtoon style
This is probably the creepiest drawing of Kat I've ever done.
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Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2018 1:48 am
by West Filly
I couldn't get the limited animation style to work for me but the UPA style went somewhere
And then I had a lot of fun drawing in the stylings of Klasky Csupo
and a final anime style
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 12:51 am
by Mr. Big
Day 17: Take a modern character and draw them in the style of the past
(playing catch up with the Toon June prompts)
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 12:52 am
by Mr. Big
Day 18: Reboot a character from the past and give them a modern look
Tom Terrific in Adventure Time style.
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 12:52 am
by Mr. Big
Day 19: Reboot any character in any style you see fit
Rubber-hose style is a very dangerous style.
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2018 12:43 pm
by Mr. Big
Day 20: Take a frame from any cartoon and redraw it.
Of course I was going to take a scene from the greatest cartoon of all time.
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2018 8:38 pm
by Mr. Big
Day 21: Take your least favorite character and improve them.
I…just redrew Roger the Alien in my style. That’s all I could think of.
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2018 8:38 pm
by Mr. Big
Toon June Day 22: Bad reboot of your favorite cartoon character.
Rob Liefeld-style Super Chicken.
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2018 8:39 pm
by Mr. Big
Day 23: Take any previous prompt and do it again with a different character
Decided to redraw another frame.
Original here.
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2018 8:40 pm
by Mr. Big
Day 24. Design a character of your own!
This is an idea I've been wanting to do for a while, a sort of a horror-gag comic called "The Ghost Cat". It's based on a Japanes folklore called "Bake Neko" (lit Ghost Cat), where a cat becomes a ghost after licking lantern oil (at the time made from fish oil) and rolling around three times
The story would take place in Japan, and features a kid and their parent who moves into an old house that is occupied by the mysterious cat. The cat would haunt bad guys and give them a warning by clawing an eye off, at which point the Cat would keep in a jar. If the person continues to be bad, the cat would come to collect the other eye
A bit different tone than my other comics
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2018 12:52 pm
by West Filly
Bad reboot of your favorite cartoon character.
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2018 2:09 am
by Mr. Big
Day 25 and 26: Range of expressions for the new character/create poses for the character (accidentally forgot 26, so I'm just gonna combine this drawing into two prompts and call it a day)
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 10:33 pm
by Mr. Big
Toon June Day 27: Design a background/setting for the character.
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 10:35 pm
by Mr. Big
Toon June Day 28: Designs some props for your character
Ghost Cat with a big jar containing eyes of his enemies.
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2018 10:55 pm
by Mr. Big
Toon June Day 29: Have your character interact with another.
Princess Kat gets a ride from the Ghost Cat.
Re: Toon June drawing challenge
Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2018 1:48 pm
by Mr. Big
Toon June Day 30: Draw a title card for your cartoon. Last one! Toon June was fun, and enjoyed doing them.
This is basically an Americanized version of anime title cards from the 1960s.
Last one! That was fun to do.