The Walrus and the Carpenter

With the combination of all those long walks on the beach together and the apparently true rumor that oysters make great aphrodisiacs, the unlikely couple really had no other choice.

Little Oysters?

"Little oysters... Little oysters...", but answer there came none. EXCEPT ONE!

I thought I'd combine this with the Star Wars theme. It made perfect sense to me, you know, with that whole link between Star Wars and oysters... right?

Question for the sea pig?

New Topic: The Walrus & the Carpenter

Time to move on, even though it's too bad we didn't get more Star Wars drawings...

The topic for the coming week is The Walrus and the Carpenter, from Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass," or as you probably know it better, from Disney's "Alice in Wonderland." There you go... draw away!

Darth Maul

First Post. Thanks all for the invite, Much appreciated:

Princess Leia

It had to be done.

Baaaa Shooodah!

In this drawing, my goal was to capture the essence of Jabba. Then I realized that "Essence of Jabba" is the most disgusting phrase ever. Oh well, you win some, you lose some. May the Force be with you.

Jedi War (Hence the Armor)

New Topic: I Have a Bad Feeling About This...

Howdy, Toon Clubbers. Hope life isn't harshin' your grooves too much. Remember that you still have all of Monday to finish up a duck drawing if you're able, then it's on to the next topic.

Which is.......

STAR WARS!

Here's some news items I wanted to pass on while I have your attention:

1. We're gonna start a new method of listing our blog links this week. From now on, the people with the most active posting will be listed first. So if you've fallen behind a bit in posting, there's a little incentive to help you along. The research that we get from our tracking bar indicates that links higher on the page receive more clicks. We may even offer a "Platinum" listing this spring to those who post 50 times or more.

2. Also, I'm putting the call out for a Toon Club logo and banner. This would be something we can all put on our blogs. If you've got any ideas, work them up and then email them to me. When we have a few options I'll post them and we can vote.

3. If you haven't been to other Toon Clubbers' blogs lately, I encourage you to go there and leave some feedback. Let's see if we can't pump up the number of posts per topic using a little camaraderie.

4. Lastly, thank you for supporting this blog. When we started it nearly a year ago, we were hoping that it might be a place where some like-minded folks with varied styles and experiences could come together to make something great. Over 300 drawings later and still kicking, I think you have all accomplished that. Please continue to participate, leave comments, and give us feedback on ways you think Toon Club can improve. In the end, it will fail or succeed on our united efforts.

Have a Great Day!
Adrian

Taste of Cold Shadow

Maui Mallard Lives!! I know its late, sorry. I was going to do Darkwing Duck but *someone* already stole him, so I had to completely reformulate my entry. Wanted to do more with it, just didn't have the time. I think MM is Donald's best alias ever, too bad Disney never made any shorts with him; it would've made a killer TV show. Sigh.

...If it swims like a duck...

Darkwing Duck

I tried to resist, but to no avail. How many chances do you get to draw Darkwing Duck for an actual purpose?

Not many, that's how many.

The Ugly Duckling

DUCK... Igor!

There was waaay too much cuteness going on, thanks to Adrian. So I'm posting something polar opposite of cuteness, whatever that is.

Cute or Fowl? Er... Foul.

I was in the cutesy mood, so here ya go!

New Topic : Duck!

This week's topic is "Going Quackers," which hopefully most of you will interpret at "Ducks".

Ready, set....

DRAW!

Fat Dog

All Dogs Go Somewhere

It's been a while so I definately wanted to post this week. It's a dog, but he's dead, and since all dogs go to heaven, well that's where he is

Man's Best Friends

Frankenpuppy

Talk about going to the dogs! I had to dig this one up, piece it together, and then post it. It's getting to be more than I can keep up with. ...but it's worth it to see Adrian and Shane happy.
Happy New Year!

Anubis

New Topic: Toon Club is Going to the Dogs!

Hey, everyone! Hope you got good and rested over the breatk, 'cuz now it's time to get back into the swing!

This week's topic, which will run until January 14, is "Man's Best Friend".

The Baboon

Auld Lang Sing

Hippo Pun

Happy New Year, everyone! Hopefully Toon Club will come out of its holiday slump. I miss it. Later!

Drop the Cookie!

Merry Christmas everybody! Hope you're having a better holiday than ole' S. Claus.

This is an older piece, but one I haven't had the opportunity to post before now. Opportunity knocked, so here it is.

Consider this my personal Christmas Card to all the Toon Clubers and those who stop by Toon Club for a visit. Merry Christmas and happy holidays! God bless us everyone!

Year End Topic

So, here's the deal, chappies. If you're done with Santa, you can move on to "New Year", our last topic of the year. If you are still working on Santa, keep on it! You have until Christmas!

Happy Holidays!

Santa's Bad Year

Call me grouchy, but it seems like when I go Christmas shopping, there are an overabundance of unruly, apparently parent-less kids running through the store, screaming and leaving a trail of destruction.

So, I got to thinking that maybe Santa's "Nice" list has been getting a little smaller each year. In fact, most elves have probably been downsized. I don't know why Santa looks so upset in this picture... I'd be happy if I got Christmas Eve off.

I Like Santa

Santa's Pyramid

Santa's First Christmas

I always liked the "old school" Santa. More then the one Norman Rockwell helped Coke make famous.

10th Lord A-Leaping

I'm not sure what this has to do with Christmas. I think it makes a crappy and disturbing present for the 10th day as well, but whatever suits your fancy. Am I right?

Eleven Pipers Piping

Here's my 12 days of Christmas drawing, 11 Pipers Piping... Sorry no color!

New Topic: Santa Claus

Continuing on with the Christmas themes, this week's topic is Santa Claus.

If you've got a 12 Days post percolating, try to get it in today (Monday). It's going to be fun to see everyone's take on the Jolly Ol' Fellow!

(Or is that King Cole? I can never remember.)

The Baboon

Five Golden Rings

In the 16th century there was a samurai named Miyamoto Musashi. He wrote a book called "The Book of the Five Rings." It is one of the most read books on samurai life to date.

Anyway, I wanted to draw this samurai panda I saw on a desktop background more then I wanted to draw something Christmas-y. So here it is... the Panda Samurai Book of the Five Golden Rings.

At least it's snowing. I'm a nerd.

Three French Hens

That's right. French hens. Three of them.

Four Birds Calling

Birds with phones. Kind've makes you wonder.

I thought I'd better get something up before the deadline, so here's my sketch. I'll see what I can do about splashing some color on this soon.

Two Turtle Doves

Six Geese A-Laying Five Golden Rings

In the immortal words of Miss Piggy...

BA-BUM-BUM-BUM!

Toon Club Changes

Well, as most of you have figured out by now, Toon Club has entered the "2.0" phase. You'll notice now that you can now look at posts by date, artist, or topic, which was the exciting new change I alluded to last month. We think this is going to be a positive move for Toon Club, and a big THANK YOU to Shane for doing the majority of the sorting work.

Sadly, it seems that no change comes without a price. It seems that our upgrade is preventing some members from posting. Oops. If you aren't able to upgrade your account to a Google account, as needed to now post here, please e-mail me and let me know. I'll reinvite you. Then, when blogger gets around to your account, you can merge them back together again. (I know this works.. I've done it myself.)

In the meantime, if you have something to post and can't, please email it to me with the text you'd like to go with it and I'll post it in your name.

Thank you for your patience, I think you'll all be happy with the new site once we work out some of these bugs.

Have a great day!

Adrian

New Suprise Topic: The Twelve Days of Christmas

Great work last topic everyone! Here's a new Holiday themed surprise topic:

THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS

Have fun!

The Baboon

Here's a couple of ToonClub mentions that I thought you might be interested in seeing:

Tiki Talk
Drawn!
Dave Johnson
Toys R Evil

Also, if any of you have any art relating things to shill, now would be the time to tell us! It's Christmas, after all! Maybe someone wants a J-Rex tshirt!

Sea World

This is more in concert with Shane's explanation of the origins of the mermaid. This is what the less drunk sailers reported after an encounter with the manatee, I mean mermaid. It's also what the more drunk (apparently women and children, according to my drawing) report seeing at Sea World.

Sorry I ditched TC for a while. Thought I'd check in.

Christian Mermaid (better late than never)

Since humans have become too advanced for religion it falls by the wayside - into the hands of previously pagan societies, and begins anew.

P.S. Sorry about the lousy pic, she's drawn too big to scan.

Frostina the Arctic Mermaid

In a tragic twist of fate, a young merbaby is abandoned and swept down current to the South Pole. There, she is adopted by a kindly penguin family and raised as one of their own. The only clue to her true heritage is the tiki necklace she wore as a child.

Yeah! I got the mermaid and tiki topics covered, and I got to draw more penguins! Woo hoo! I am back!

Sea Shells and D Shells

I wanted to have some mermaids framing a sign or a compass rose like you might see on an old pirate map, but this is as far as I got. It was fun though. How could mermaids not be fun to draw?

Mer-accountant

This is the side of Mermish society you don't get to see very much-- geeky mermen don't get enough exposure, so here you go.

Okay, I realize the topic is "Mermaid", but just this once I had to go against the grain. Hope you'll indulge me this time. I'll try not to let it happen again.

Pixel Mermaid

Allow me to indulge myself, I've been doing some pixel art lately, and I thought I'd show what that looks like... Really lo-res, but I kind of like the way it communicates despite its blocky edges.

What we see...

What a Mermaid sees...

Chicken of the Sea anyone?

In some of the old tales of Mermaids they aren't such nice creatures as Ariel. They were feared creatures of the sea. This is a pretty quick rendering-I would have liked to spend more time on this one but today was the last day on this topic so what you see is what you get.

Mermaid Doing Nothing

I dug up some old mermaids studies from the past. Nothing great. Someday I would like to do a real mermaid painting. I thought this topic might get me motivated but it isn't looking very good. Oh well, someday.

Hmmm, maybe the girl on the bench is underwater... or maybe she is a mermaid of the legged variety...or maybe she was just on the same piece of paper and I'm too lazy to crop.