My first post on the blog :)
Heres a kid who thinks he has it all.
Im not great with colors yet but I still had fun coloring it :)

Something smells bad

Hi, everyone.
Sorry for no posting this past two months. i have a new job and i don´t have lot of time.

this is what i did for last month´s theme. i know i shouldn´t post it now. if you tell me to do it, i´ll delete it.

Gangster

Hey guys, this is my first contribution to this blog, hope you like it!

Are you talking to me?

More fun than a barrel of monkeys and a jar of mayonnaise!

Linguini Family

New theme!

Leave it to animators to pick the most bad-ass, gruesome and dark option during the happiest month of the year. This months theme is "Gangsters", interpret it how you like, any era, tons of options- just please no Jolly Old St.Nick Gangsters...
Morbidly Obese animals was an awesome theme, great job to everyone who participated. I can't wait to see what people come up with this month. Happy Holidays!
-Trent

Fat Giraffe!

This month's theme was really fun. Lots of weird reference available, too...I went with a giraffe who traded vegetation for cake and never looked back.

Fatimals!

Fatimals! Hooray!

Fat hamster/mouse

It's been way to long since I posted anything...so I just had to post something for this month.
I was hoping I'd have time to do clean up and maybe color it but...its the end of the month already, so just a sketch for now.
cheers!

DECEMBER THEME!!!!!

Hey! Leave me some thoughts and ideas for the December Theme!!
Thanks,
-T

Monkey Taunts Tiger

Srry haven't posted in a while, but I thought I'd have a little fun with this one....anyone seen the Youtube videos of the monkeys taunting the tigers? SO funny. And here is my own.

King george

This is all I need to lose weight!

In my mind being morbidly obese is way more than just being "round". So I farted out this lovely specimen.
I don't know what it is, I think its either a greyhound or a mouse... you decide. Either way, I've been visiting peopleofwalmart.com a lot these days and using the creatures on the site as my inspiration for this piece.
Enjoy!!!!

What's the secret to weight loss that the big corporations don't want you to know?
its not powders and gym memberships, just PUT DOWN THE FORK!!! FACE!!!
...thank you family guy....

:Giravenous

Your sin, my dear, is gluttony.

First time poster. Color by the lovely and talented Natasha Dee. Hope you like.

Toodles

fat giraffes and tiger

im sick at home today so might as well have some fun :)

Yummy

Hey guyz and galz. whats up?
heres my entery for this month subject.
i guess my animals arent fat enough but i thought ill share it anyway.
hope to have some more time for another pieces.

would love to hear what do u think.

Leave it to Beaver

lol, good theme.

ATTN: WINDOWS 7 USERS

Just upgraded to Windows 7 and had a little problem with the Wacom lagging at the start of each stroke. It was pretty easy to fix. If you need help let me know.

The Squirrel OD'd on acorns

"The dog ate my homework"

hola everyone!

here's my contribution to this months theme! I had a lot of fun doing this one! enjoy the rest of you day

-wayne

Dont feed the bears...

If you really loved them....

Got Milk?

Hugo!

Hey! I'm kinda killing two birds with one stone here! This is a design I did yesterday for this months 11 second club- which also fits this months theme quite well:) Also it's extremely difficult to design a fat appealing caterpillar that doesn't look like the "Bugs Life" design, hopefully he looks different enough! I would love some feedback as I can incorporate it into my keys next week. Thanks!
Make obesity fun!
-T

Garabatos rellenitos

Si, no es mucho, pero es un aporte, pequeñito, pero aporte al fin.
http://dibujoblog.blogspot.com/

New November Theme!

If animals were allowed in McDonalds...we'd have better reference! Great October month, tons of great drawings and imagitive pieces! This month I decided to only choose themes that were a little "outside the box", to change things up abit; I believe this was Phil Lanoix's suggestion! Have fun! I can't wait to see what people come up with! Feel free to leave suggestions about the blog, or just life in general!
-T

HalloWIN

Just another halloween...

A friend's baby shower coincided with Halloween, so I decided to create a simple greeting card for this month's sketch theme. The sketch was cleaned onto bristol board and then re-scanned.

haloweenies

hi.

its time for my monthly visit and post. i wish i had more free time to practice with color and just draw stuff for fun.

and here are 2 more none related pics but they still look haloweeny :)

this one i did about a year ago for blog challenge back when i had plenty of free time.

and this was done more recently for an English book i'm illustrating:

and great job ppl, there some really excellent posts this month. gotta love 'em spooks and ghouls.

DD

There's more sketches on my blog! mat987.blogspot.com

cutie halloween

Two cute spookies - Momma's Boy and Lil' Grim.

Happy Halloween!

Hey everyone! I stumbled across the blog recently and Trent's been nice enough to allow me to join the group and play :) I started the month with the plan of doing a drawing for M - F for all of October. If you're wondering why they have the date somewhere in them, that's why (except for the witches at the bottom, I didn't put a date on that one). So there we have it! Above are a couple of October's Halloween drawrings.

Happy happy Halloween! Until next time, sketchy folks...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

My Take on Franks

Here's some quick Frank Pics, Happy Halloween everyone!

Here's some of my favorite horror movie characters. Happy Halloween!

Frankie says...

DONT DO IT...

Edit..One more

Random Halloweeny Squiggles.

Just having some fun playing with colour and monsters (and a few ghosties). Happy Halloween!

Zombie Sketches

Hey Dudes and dudettes. This is my first of many contributions to this wicked Bloggity.

NOVEMBER THEME?

Let me know your thoughts for a November theme!

Witchy Woman

Trying out a new style this month,
Happy Halloween all! Dont eat too much candy :)

New Vampire

This is the little sister of May, Maria

A request from May and to contribute a little with the blog:

This vampire lives in a Shawarma Restaurant, sleeps in a chicken trio, after closing, is in charge to deliver potatoes with garlic sauce to the people who behaved well, is immune to garlic, and the vampire who can gets it to eat also got to be immune at garlic, this vampire is a bit peculiar, this vampire is....

GARLIC SAUCE!

Frank and handler.

spooky stuff i did in yosemite

hola everyone!

here's some stuff when i was in yosemite. i was stuck in the hotel room account of the rain :/ anywhoo, i love love love halloween and everything that goes bump in the night. i love drawing in that style per say i guess. so hope you enjoy!!

wayne

Halloween Queen

BOO!

One of my favorite subject matter, Monster and Ghouls Swim in my brain almost 24/7. I can't wait too see what people come up with this month.

there is nothing more special than the time a father gets to spend with his children.

October Theme!

Hey Guys/Gals
Awesome looking month...I love seeing the variety of stuff! As you know, the next theme is Halloween...should be fun (Great suggestion Cara!)
As you can see I put up some guidlines on the side. I was getting quite a few emails and comments about people posting more then once..or old work...or too many people in the blog(which is great, email suggestions are really appreciated, helps me to know what some people are thinking). Personally I like seeing alot of artwork, but this will help keep things constructed in the blog. When it comes down to it, you just gotta remember that this blog is for personal use, your looking for motivation to improve your own drawings...and seeing other works should be inspiration. The people that are using this for improving their own work, and using the themes to direct it, are improving tremendously. I am happy to see people sticking with it, and having fun doing it!
Thanks for making this blog kick ass!
suggestions are always helpful, let me kno what u think!
Thanks
Trent

Jungle Birds!!!!

Some last minute doodles from my sketchbook!! Great stuff this month guys & gals!!!!

Panda Moon Light

RELAX

Fly catcher

Welcome to the Jungle, Baby!!

I ran out of time to ink this, but I still wanted to get the rough sketch in before the end of the month.

Run for life!

Hey all! wassup?
this is my entry for the jungle theme.
had a really bad month and times. i really hate the army, luckly for u all i hope u dont have to dill with yours in your countries
comments are more then welcome :)

boring day

Well, imagine that your friends are two birds and a rhino. There´s not much to talk about with them.

Great posts this month! i´m waiting for the next month´s theme

L is for Lemurs and Lazy :)

I so wanted to do an amazing BG or jungle scene but the month is almost over so here is a fast doodle of a Lemur.
Fun Fact, Lemurs are almost always a female dominant society :)
Great posts this month too! Inspirational goodness!

poker in the jungel

arrrgh! im having the worst art block EVER! havent drawn anything in a month and i really struggled with this pic... but still, i more or less won this battle and hopefully i will win the war soon :)

great round this month ppl. very impressive entries!

Jungle Theme - Tribe boy and Boa

Hey everyone, these are some sketches I did for the Jungle theme. I was going to draw a boa fighting a tribal warrior but this is how far I got. It was fun sketching out the face and body shapes of an emerald boa.

Note: sorry for the poor image quality, they got a bit pixelated when i resized theme, i'll have to fix that for next time.

More Jungle Fun!

Just some doodles and sketches from various project I'm working on.

Enjoy!

October themes!

Hey all, lets hear your thoughts on some October themes! The poll will be up on the Monday the 28th, be sure to check back and vote!
Until then...
-Trent

Jungle Girl

Here's a jungle girl to start with, might add a few more scratchings before the end of the month. Cheers!


...and here's a Tiki!


...aaaand a toucan.

Jungle Temple

So here's my offering for this month. I always wanted to try matte painting so I decided this would be a good time to go for it. I made this by taking various photos, cutting out bits and pieces and sticking them together, doing lots of colour correction and lighting adjustment, and then painting in several more bits by hand to bring it all together.

I'm not completely happy with how it turned out, some of the photos don't quite fit together still, and some of them were pretty low quality and blurry. Might go over this some more some other time.

Here is a mix of the photos I used to start with.


~Stefan

three stooges

This is what every Saturday morning felt like when I was a kid. We had an old push mower and a huge lawn.

Jungle Bop.

So it's my first post, and it's a pretty simple sketch, but enjoy!

I started to research natives and jungles around the world and I quickly began to realize that I was drawn towards Ecuadorian and Amazonian natives. So I came up with my own style of natives; let's call them Amadorians! As for the animals, I discovered pygmy jerboa's this summer, so I drew mutant size versions of them as the native's pets.

I never introduced myself on my first post; so my name is Justin and I really enjoy perusing this blog. There's lot's of great art and I can't wait to see what people produce next!

Ensnared

Hey everyone, first post here! My take on this month's theme.

~Cheers

Red Team Go!

I'm practicing painting a lot more these days, but it's giving me a headache, so this is all I've got so far. I may continue on it a bit and post my progress, as in edit this post. I know the red-all-over the place is gay, but I'm tired! I'm gunna go get a coffee. I'm so excited to see what everyone comes up with for this theme - go team go!

Jungle Gym Sun Worship

Whats up peoples?

So this is my second ever post here. Its nothing as professional as some posts, but meh... its a sketch blog, so I put up a sketch, that's been sketchily painted.

Don't look forward to more posts this month, this will be my one and only, I don't want to bore everyone by posting umpteen thousand times in a month...

ENJOY!

The Vodoo Jungle

.I post an old work , but i promise , that i will post new stuff soon.
See u!

Jungle gym!

My first post on Sketch Themes! woooo!
So much great work here guys - very inspirational.

Floating jungle

Old sketch from my sketchbook.

I'm Surrounded buy Natives!

Lets get this party started! Here some natives I have done over the years, hopefully I will have time to do some new ones. Anyways.... have fun with this months subject, and be creative dam it! ... just kidding, the submissions so far have been amazing!

Ketch ya later!

Spetember

Hey everyone!
Another cool month here, lots of great designs and pictures! Definately a somewhat narrow theme, things started to look the same after a while...but "The Jungle" sounds like a great theme, there's so many different animals, tribes and wildlife that we could draw! I can actually see peoples styles improving from the first month, which is the only goal of this blog, to learn off fellow artists, so I hope people are having fun! I'm bringing my buddy Collin on board to help Admin the blog, so hopefully we can spice it up a little. Let me know what you think, any suggestions on ways to improve the blog would be awesome, thanks and have a good month!
Sorry about the delay with the header and stuff....I'm looking for something different, maybe a slide show???
Lets keep SPAM to a minimum!...cough...hodge

arggg,,,(damn, it's been done) Ahoy (dammit, also been done)....time for a new theme!

Not much time this month as far as drawing...just completed 11 second club...and now freaking out cause it won't upload!!!!!! anyways here it is! Nice looking month yet again!!

Sketchy pirates

some pirates

a girl pirate, and a rough sketch of an old pirate.

I thought I'd have time to post something more finished but this will have to do for this month.

"we had a good run, girl..."

wow, haven't been here since my first post. shame on me.

i hope this guy makes my absence a little less shameful :)

i shall go comment on posts now!

Hello, Sailor!

A need for more Swag!

Here are some late pirate entries, I was doodling at work and was planing on just posting the sketches, but one thing lead to another and time makes fools of us all.



I was watching the movie "Porco Rosso" and loving the Air Pirates, and decided to make some land pirates in the same vain as the pirates in the movie, but in the era of the "Cold War".

Hope you like them, see you soon!

πrate

Get it? π? pirate? Ah-whatever...Trying photoshop for the first time in a long~long time. I think I need more practice. The Lines look awful and the purple smoke could have been better.

A bunch of pirates

I just bought a quill recently, and Im hooked. And here are some pirates.

Pirate Ship

So a little while ago my computer died...I took it in for repairs where they promptly broke it some more and sent it back. When I brought it back again they refused to believe that there was anything wrong with it, citing the "impossibility" of it. I can't say I quite understand this repair philosophy. Did they theorize that by breaking it further, the two broken elements would somehow cancel each other out? Perhaps they hoped to delve so deep into the realm of broken-ness that they came out the other side into some mythic world where it was not only repaired, but nigh invincible. After a long argument they agreed to take it back and try again, where I suspect they'll simply shove it in a corner for three weeks and then tell me it's repaired itself.

The point is that all of this has forced me to resort to purely traditional methods. This is watercolours, my first serious attempt at non-digital painting. I've decided that mixing colours manually is a pain in the ass, and that real life should come with an undo button.

~Stefan

vagabond

Here's a picture of a wandering vagabond pirate, enjoying a bonfire. He noticed something from a distance that caught his attention. Thanks

PILATES?!

What kind of topic is "Pilates"? That's ridiculous. What's next, yoga? Tae-Bo? When will the madness end?

SEPTEMBER THEME?

Please leave comments with September theme IDEAS! Some great Pirates this month, let's try something totally different, be creative! I will take 10 suggestions for the poll.

Had a quick idea I thought was fun but didn't have time to do these sketches up better. Sorry ladies...no disrepect just thought this was a fun idea.

Pirate Onions

May's little sister Maria posting!

Maybe this is dissapointing to you or a what the hell though, but who said that onions can't be pirates too? I made the sketch during one of my classes, and them in SAI I painted it.

Great, i forgot the parrot, oh well, here goes.

Yo ho mates.2.

Hey there. this is my second pirates piece.
enjoy. will be happy for some comments and crits.

There be gold a foot!

Here some doodles I got done this week, I've got some other ones I am working on still to come.

Enjoy!

Modern pirates

The pirates who have been attacking cargo ships off the Horn of Africa lately inspired my contribution for the blog this month.

If anybody knows of a brush that's good for inking, please let me know.

Enjoy!

ahoy matey!!.....

....i know, lame title post lol...hello everyone! my name is Wayne and i'm pleased to join this sketchblog. here's my first post of some pirates. one of them i threw some quick colors as well. cool looking blog with a lot of talent..now it's time to comment on some other post...arrrrghhh

pirates?... pirates...

Gay Pirate


"We`re Goin` Back To Da Cursed Ship, Knave. You may Join or You may die."

pirate stuff I did once.

hope you guys likey.

P.

Give me more rum!!!!

Hi,
my name is Sergio, from Spain.
I`m pleased to join this blog.
Hope you like my drunk pirate.

Pappagallo

The pirate's best friend

Pirates

Something Old and Something New

I did this one 3 years ago to celebrate the idea of pirates riding dinosaurs.


And here's this months.

Pirate pinup

This is Eve. She's a pirate because it means she gets to have nice things.

this is dedicated to a very funny song by Ray Stevens...the Pirate Song. Someone said it's about a gay pirate...I prefer to think of him as having a taste for culture.

arrgggh..

Hello mates,
my name is Dor shamir from israel.
you have an awsome blog full
of extremly talented people and im honored to join you guys.

Borgran the undead

hallo!

this is a speed painting I whipped up this fine evening.
pirates are scary, yeah.
zombie pirates are insane. :)

Ahoy!

hello there, im Galit, a.k.a Shoze, from israel. this place looks like fun! :)

here are a few quick and dirty pirates to get things started:

Scallywag!

Big Boots to Fill!

I did this picture with a story in mind about a little boy pirate who wants to be like his daddy but realizes just how far he has to go! Hope you all enjoy, cheers!

first one

just a lil' lost pirate boy named Ahoy

Mr Grog

Arrg -Ive got an itch!!

"Yarr, was it?"

Some sketchy pirate folk.

More Pirates!

Shiver Me Timber!

"Shiver Me Timber!... Who `twas the knave what stole me gold, hey?..."

Just me and my parrot

I like the parrot. Maybe it's because I'm better in drawing animals.

Yaaaarrrrrghhh...!!

a very quick painting for you peeps.
;)

"a RopeMonkey Pirate"





P.

Shhwing!

BANG!
Hey guys here's my first post on Sketch themes!

Ahoy Maties!

AARRRGGGG! All aboard for some pirate fun, you scaly wags! Swab the deck and all that jazz!

I have always had fun drawing pirates in my career or just for the hell of it. I will probably doodle some more for later this month, but for now I hope you enjoy these scribbles.

Arrrggg!!!

Captain Hooker!

Yo ho.... HO! So I drew a female pirate wearing the very classic, Disney's Captain Hook costume.

mitology Peruvian

Hi. mi name is V.Z. Sanjinez. your friend.

http://sanjinezg.blogspot.com

August Theme!

Hey everybody
Great month yet again, fantastic artwork and tons of different mediums. So the new theme is "Pirates", narrowly beating out "Animals with Power tools"...(cough)thank god. Again, I am trying to keep monthly archives of everything, so please post within the month and theme!

One other note, I got an email from blogger saying they might flag our blog as mature content, and then everybody would have to click that message before entry. I don't really want it marked as mature content, so please keep your posts as descent as possible, you don't have to, but it would be nice of you!
Also Mark has found a way of fixing our voting process, so it should be up and running this month!
Also if you want to send me any artists you think are inspirational. Send me their full name and link and I will start a lists called "Inspirational artists"
Thanks again everybody for all you help and great posts on this blog, I hope to see another Awesome MONTH!!!

Interviews with Mythical Creatures

Pegasus

Not pushing any new ground here, sorry guys. I'm a noob at animals.

Sun Wukong the Monkey King

Okay so here's the skinny. I somehow brought my tablet home today from work

without the pen....

After drawing this on an enourmous sketchbook and piecing it together on my comp I realized I was penless. So this will have to do.

Sun Wukong the Monkey King.

Monkey was born from a stone egg high up on the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit. He had special powers from the Jade Emperor and became quite a devious little rascal. He tricked a monarch into giving him a magic wand/staff, got drunk here and there, ate the best peaches of immortality and drunkenly defied the founder of the Daoist religion and swallowed the golden pills of the Elixir of Life.

I think he seems quite fun really & there is nothing wrong with Monkeys!

Sentinel of Bifröst; Herald of Ragnarök

In Norse mythology, Heimdall is the guardian of the rainbow bridge Bifröst and is destined to sound Gjallarhorn, warning the Æsir of Ragnarök. He will be the last of gods, after he and Loki die by each other's hands, before the world is reborn.

Oberon - King of Shadows and Fairies

Just a little concept sketch. Not too sure where the character originates in mythology. It may be Germanic, but to tell you the truth I just liked the name. As soon as I started looking into the character I imagined him like an old tree with lots of gnarled scars with eyes like pools of water. I also found a story about a fight between Oberon and Titana, his queen. So this is the heartbroken king becoming more feral and overgrown in his depression.

Jason

Fellow Flier

Hi, new here!
My name's Aviv, I'm a graphic designer and illustrator from Israel.
This looks like an awesome place to get inspired, practice and have some fun =)

Here's a quickie just before Mythology month ends.

Cheers!

GoLeM

well I couldn`t resist.
;)

not so much a "myth" per say, more of a Jewish Folklor thing, but - nevertheless a subject worth doodling for.

P.

om mani padme hum

AHAHHA I sooo did not do this last minute shut up! I didn't research ..anything I just did a google image search for reference so I don't even know what goddess this is. Woot. I am ignorant. And lazy. Hope this doesn't offend anyone.. again!

How cheesy of you

Cheese. Moon. Cheese on the moon.

Loki looking at his meal

In Norse mythology, Loki is a god or jötunn (or both). Loki's relation with the gods varies by source. Loki assists the gods, and sometimes causes problems for them. Loki is a shape shifter and in separate incidents he appears in the form of a salmon and a mare.

I've based this drawing on this one. And after I finished it I've actually read the article and noticed that it's not stated that he actually ate someone's heart D: Bear with me.

Polynesian Myth

(I am not sure how accurate this is because i found it on Wikipedia!)

A girl named Sarah-moe-aitu (“Sarah-sleeping-with-a-god”) liked to bathe in a certain pool that housed many eels. One day as Sarah was bathing, an eel transformed into a young man. His name was Tuna (Te Tuna?) and Sarah took him as her lover.

After they had been together for a while, one day Tuna told Sarah that there would be a great downpour the next day and he would be washed up onto the threshold of her house in his eel-form. When that happened, Tuna said, Sarah must cut off his head and bury it, and then regularly visit the place where the head had been buried. (i wonder why...)

Sarah obeyed Tuna, returning faithfully to watch the place where she had buried his head. After many days, she saw a shoot sprout from the spot. Another shoot appeared, and the two shoots grew into a pair of coconut trees—the first coconut trees known to man.

The Mangaians call the coconut’s white flesh “Tuna’s brains”, and they claim that you can see a face when you look at the shell of a coconut.
Yay I finally got something done for this! Tuna looks like such a creep dweeb... I did this pretty quick because i'm short on time but really wanted to do something for this one. I had a really rough drawing for the warrior round (of Charon from Fallout 3 teehee) but never got to finish it. :/
Nice to meet all you talented people!
crits = ♥

Golum

Hey this is my first post, watercolour and pen, I drew too small so its pretty messy.
If you were wondering it is a golum (or homunculous) that a boy stumbled across. Not exactly everyday mythology but it is around, basically they were the original robot, a manlike creature made from mud and plants. origins in jewish folklore and alchemy in general.

Cockatrice

Cock-a-doodle-doo! A cockatrice!

Hammer Time!

Sketched this one up early this afternoon.

"Baby Thor"
:)

Fly Boy

Hello good people.
The Name is Patri Balanovsky, I`m an Illustrator and A Concept Artist.
professionally - for the last 8 years.
I would just like to say this Blog is very nice and the whole idea behind it is awesome. who doesn`t need the Practice, right? ;)

so - here`s "Hermes", my contribution for this month`s "Mythology".
hope you guys dig.
(I was going for a more "cartoon sketch" but got carried away and took
it to "finished". heheh.. ho well.)

cheers,
Pat.

The golem of prague

Hello everyone, really awesome stuff so far!

this is my post for this month.

This is kind of a baizzar story..I geuss its a jewish myth.basically this rebbay from prague made this creature from inanimate matter (earth and clay I think) to protect the jewish communety. theres many versions to the story, didnt really get in to it to much. its mosntly an excuse for me to draw a weird ass ugly monster.

if youre really into myth stories here is the wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem.

anyway let me know what you think, I will appreciate some constructive criticism.

(I was gonna ink the lines too...but I forgot...and now its to late cause i'm already posting it...please forgive me friends.)

cheers!

Ride of the Valkyrie

Valkyries are awesome. They chose which warriors would die in battle (the only way to go) and then escort them to Valhalla. Once in Valhalla (paradise), the slain would often sit around telling tales of awesomeness, drink endless mugs of mead and fight each other until Ragnarok (armageddon). Hope yous like it. Crits are welcome and appreciated.

Druidia

Whats up HOmies and hOmettes?
So yeah, this is my first posting on here. Thanks again Trent :)
Now that its done though, I'm not happy with how it came out. Oh well, there's always next month.
Until then, here is my druid (Irish/celt mythology? or am I just talking out my ass) with some pixies. I really had no idea in mind, I just started drawing, and tried to steer clear of greek mythology. But yeah. Enjoy!

-Me

Tyr & Fenrir

Hello everybody! this is the little sister of May, Maria, I still don't have the invitation to post with my own account, so... for the moments, I will post this with her account and permission.
So, my choice for the blog is the myth of Tyr and Fenrir, stereotypicaly, the vikings have beard, but them the guy wasn't looking good so, beard off! By kind, he lost a hand D8.

Penelope

So, Penelope got married to Ulysses and not long after, he was called off to battle in the Trojan war. He was gone a long time, some thought he was dead, or at least seemed unlikely that he would return. Penelope started getting hassled by many suitors who wanted her hand in marriage. She still hoped Ulysses would return so she started thinking up ways of putting the horny guys off. She would say she was really busy making a funeral canopy for her father-in-law. And then at night, she would undo the work of the previous day.
I've updated it here, made her an American military wife who's repairing flags to keep the guys at bay. I also based her a bit on Penelope Cruz.

Hail All Sketchonauts!

MEDUSA vs ARGONAUT

CYCLOPS

MEDUSA

MINATOR

MEDUSA

This is my first post, so be kind. Here's a couple of doodles I have done in the past, hope you enjoy them! I look forward to seeing all your future posts and seeing all the creativity to come from your collective imaginations!

Brad Pitt?

** For the August theme, leave comments below with ideas, my "30 day" trial for the gadget I was using is over. I will take the comments and set up the Poll starting on the 26th-31st.
If anyone can think of a better way to do this, please tell.

Achilles! What if Achilles didn't look like Brad Pitt...and had hair in all the wrong places? Lets hear some crits! If anyone has a spare second, I just uploaded some more inked sketches on my blog, and I would love painting critiques! I'm trying to pick up on photoshop- so far listening to other crits on this blog are helping alot! Promising looking month! Great work everybody! Post, post, post!
-Trent

Apsopsi. (or) Wendling chicki

I once was able to find the right name for the creature that is half-girl, half-lion, with wings, but now I'm not so sure. The Apsopsi is half-girl-half-lion, and the name is from Thailand. Wendling loves drawing these beauties, and I hope to one day not suck so much at them. This time I tried doing most of it in Flash using vectored shapes. Fun but time consuming! Oh, and someone asked me about process, so I tried to include it...is that okay Trent?

Minotaur

So I realize this is a sketch blog, but I hope renders are ok too. I've been messing about with some 3D stuff lately, so decided to do this for my entry this month. Decided not to finish his entire body. Click for full-size version.

~Stefan

Mythology

Persephone

Was the embodiment of earth's
fertility, the same time she was
Queen of the Underworld and
wife to Hades.

And my name's Natasha, I'm
new on this blog.
Hello.

P.S. crits are welcomed and desired as well.

Hel

This is Hel

Hel ("the Hidden" from the word hel,"to conceal") is the Norse goddess of the dead, ruler of the nine worlds of the Land of Mist, Niflheim or Niflhel, located in the far north-- a cold, damp place that is home to frost giants and dwarves. The name Hel was applied both to the Queen of the Underworld and the land itself, and it is thought that the land gave the Queen Her name. In the late Christianized form of the myth, when Hel became Hell, she was said to be the daughter of Loki, who was equated with Lucifer.

Squidie!

Okay, so whether or not the giant squid is an actualy mythological creature can be debated, but i consider them to be. Anywho here is on crushing a submarine. PLease give me some feedback, im not the best at coloring. Any tips would be helpful.
thanks

She'll make you ROCK HARD!

All these posts are looking good. I know there's already a Medusa on here, but I had already started it when it was put up, so tough. I wanna give a big thank you to my roommate for her help with this piece. Anyway, here's my submission. Enjoy!


*Updated*



Also feel free to make any suggestions for the future. If you think somethings wrong or anything like that, just feel free to leave a comment. Thanks.

Poseidon

First off thanks for inviting me to join such a fun blog with awesome artists! Heres my first official post, Mr Poseidon. Enjoy!

Slain....

Hey everyone, some cool drawings so far, I'm liking this mythology theme.

Well, here's my post for the month, I knew I wanted to have some sort of a beast interacting with a human, and this is what came out.

Cheers

First Post-- Medusa

Doodled this this morn before jumpin on the work horse.

"Hey howdy hey" to eveyone and glad to be sketchin with extremely talented group! Hopefully can find some time to clean this up and add some color .

Cheers

Cyclop

Hey kids ! To fully enjoy this picture , you will need a pair of 3D glasses . So if you have a pair give the cyclop a try . If not ask santa for a pair .

Here's a link on how to make your own .http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Make_3-D_Glasses

Enjoy! Oh and don't look directly into the sun with them.

Aphrodite

Updated version

Ok so I saw the theme this morning and was quite into it, so I decided to draw Aphrodite just cause I wanted to try doing this style of drawing, basically no lineart just the solid colors and shading. Twas fun for my first try.

Would love feedback, cant wait to see peoples drawing!

-Liz

New Theme

Hey Everyone
After some voting and bribery, Mythology is the winner for July! Great first month, there were 21 posts, and some great artwork, ALOT of fun! A few quick things; Most of the suggestions I got seemed to be very broad, try to be creative and narrow things down a little more. Like Justin commented, Mythology is extremely broad....try to narrow it to something like "Greek Mythology". Not all suggestions will be on the poll next month, because there were too many to choose from. I'm gonna try to keep it down to 10. Also, try to keep submissions with-in the month, and theme, so that I can keep an archive of work. I started an archive link on the side. As always, all suggestions are welcome! Let me know what you think. Good luck, and have fun!
-Trent

Inspired!

Hey guys, I thought I'd post what I painted today, because I was blog surfing and came across this CRAZY concept painter. He's working on Guild Wars in Seattle and his stuff inspired me to paint, which I rarely do these days. His stuff is great inspiration for this blog too, with his crazy character paintings, it's just the kind of ideas and compositions to check out...if you're into it of course. His name is Kekai, and his blog is http://kekai.blogspot.com/ My piece here is a "draconian" speedpainting.

Warrior

Whew! Just under the wire!
It's been a lot of fun coming up with the ideas for the topic; I love seeing how differently everyone interprets it.

Defenders of the Feudal Lord

Wow, there've been a lot of fantastic submissions this month. It's nice to see things off to a good start!

Here's some samurais. I'll probably get around to putting a clean version up on my blog soon.

Warrior

xD

I'm Late!

I joined late and wouldn't you know it...left my sketchbook in a buddy's car as I was finishing up my sketch, so I hope this isn't too late, but I've got a viking for yas. This sketch is done with watercolor and some greyscale marker and color pencils. I love sketching like this, but I find it rather hard.

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Cerebus

I dashed this off quick last night to get in under the wire for the warriors theme. When I thought of warriors of course the first thing I thought about drawing was Cerebus. It's pretty muddy, but whateva.
Everything so far on this blog looks AMAZING! I'll have to track you all down for art tips later.

New High Score!

yarrggghh!

I've been meaning to draw a warrior but kept putting it off. So, as kinda a warm down I fired off a quick sketch tonight to see what why would come up with. I like a few of the line ideas and wouldn't mind cleaning it up a bit after I'm done this months 11 sec, which, if I burn through sunday and monday night I should have done!

Hodgey

Warrior?**Read below

Hey Gang! Alright so I started sketching Cowboys and Indians...but I wasn't too happy with them. So I was thinking, what would a modern day, young, teen warrior look like? Then it hit me, a highschool bully! So I sketched one guy, then got into trying to give him personality, the easiest way for me to do that, was to create a short story line...so here is two bullies, tracking down nerds.

READ-Ok- So the blog is looking unbelievable! Great posts, beautiful drawings, and very inspirational art work. I'm not sure about you guys, but I had a blast doing this, and I'm looking forward to the next theme! Originally I was thinking of having a vote and a winner. But after Shane, Jason and Collin brought to my attention that it might ruin the fun, they helped think up a new approach. Starting next month, there will be a box on the right column that says "Vote for Julys theme", it will be up there for the first 15 days of every month, and just submit your idea. For the last 15 days of every month, there will be a voting poll in the right column, it will have all the themes suggested, and you can vote for your favourite by clicking...pretty simple. By the end of the month, we should have the next months theme.
This month is a little different, I already put the box up...submit your ideas. On the 1st I will take the ideas and set-up a poll, I will leave the poll up until the 5th. It will just cut into the month abit because of last mintue change. I hope that makes sense!!
Again, great 1st month thus far, hope everybody had a blast. You guys and gals made it easy for me to get this thing going, your talented drawings brought in other talented artists. So far we're up to around 4,000 visits in the first month, and the world map looks promising....we even have a dot in Australia. This blog originally started because Nash was moving back home, and we wanted a way to stay in touch, I thought I'd try and make it bigger, and I'm glad I did, because I love looking at all these great posts! As always I'm open to suggestion, thanks again for making this happen! Thanks to Shane for making a cool 1st header, and everyone who's made suggestions to get this moving. I'm out of town for the next week, if you have problems logging in or w/e, email Shane at shane.plante.2@gmail.com .
Thanks!

Pocahontas wishes she was this cool

This actually started out as a viking chick but I was too lazy to reference it so it turned into this... which I also didn't reference. Hope no one is offended. Here is my warrior entry.

PS. This is "Snared" fanart. lol

Warrior

Hey all.

This is going to be a great blog...it is already. I'm going to use these topics to try and push my character design, so you might not see much in the way of layout from me.

OH YEAH, BROTHER!

Dammit Collin, I'd like to think great minds think alike.

1...2....3!!!!!!

Wrestlemania VI.

THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR

any WWF fans?

The Roman General

Sketched these a while ago. I going to explore this style a bit more in future sketches. I like the characturesk features of the face.

Jason Hall

Hello, Sketchy People! ....The Goose.

Hey guys, isn't this fun?

Wowsers, Penny! There have been some really neat warrior theme drawings so far. So I thought I'd mess it all up, well sorta, with this. The Goose, he's the motorcycle cop from Mad Max and in my opinion should have been the real Road Warrior. You guys don't have to accept it, I was just havin' fun time in ma brain again... Double maximum real wild!

Little Warrior

Hey everybody, really cool stuff so far. Having a nice broad first theme looks like its workin pretty well.

So heres my entry, like it was said below; warriors gotta start somewhere!

enjoy!

Warriors of Kin

Hey Here is my post for this month. We have two warriors just enjoying each others company. One is a brute who has some kind of a glowing energy power, and the other is a hippie girl who can hover slightly off of the ground. This was a lot of fun to do, and I'm anxiously awaiting the next theme. Cheers.

I geuss she's an urban warrior..

Hello eveyone, first of all really cool stuff so far...

and thanks to our buddy Trent for starting this blog. should

be alot of fun

so this is my first post. I included the sketch and two differant color schemes since

I wasn't sure which one's better (I think I like the one on the right better).

let me know what you think!

My first post!

Hello all, for those who dont know me, my names Carlos! I really like everybody's posts, its really nice to see all the talent out there and all the different styles, keep up the good work! This is my first post and hopefuly not my last!

My Entry

Looks like people are starting to put their entries up, so I thought I'd do mine too. Great work so far, I see May's gonna be a tough competitor.

Mine's a tribal warrior of some sort. Pretty rough and sketchy, about 2-3 hours of work.

~Stefan

hooya

Hello everyone, first off may :Wonderful work seriously  0_o.

Anyhoo i decided to try this theme thing out before going to work today so heres my submission.

its not much but it was fun to draw ! :)

Aight Chow

-Liz

Warriors start off somewhere

FULL VIEW PLZ! KTHXBYE

First post here? Anyway...

... It wasn't supposed to be this, but my sister lent me a Mythology book three days ago and I had my eyes fixed in the Celtic myths. I thought it was a good idea to depict Cú chulainn. But then I read he killed a dog when he was just 7 years old and I used that as excuse to paint a Boticelli/Bouguereau face, heh. I thought that was cool. Hum, and they believed crows were a symbol of bad luck or something (death). No, he didn't die when he was 7 but I thought I might throw that for composition porpuses.

I'm planning on keep on posting ^^