Merry Christmas Toon Club!

The topic was "Hairy Potter", right?

Only had time for a quickie but who can resist a bad pun.

How would you like to work on this set?

Froggy dilemma

Living in a swamp may not be so bad after all.

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.

A Tiki Doubletake

Maximizing the Caveman's Day

Halloween Stuff

Okay, Shane, I'll throw a couple of things into the ring. First-a product of medieval torture, this zombie was stretched on the rack a little too long. Second-I'm calling this guy the King of the Ghouls for want of something better.

Growing Pains for Little Vamp

It's tough being the only daughter of the
most gorgeous woman in Transylvania.

I haven't been keeping up with the club lately but I thought maybe I'd try to get in something on Dracula. I'm a little late. You guys have been doing some great stuff.

I've been interested in trying out some characters in a simpler style with strong outlines. Hence this attempt.

Albino in Winter

It took me a good while to
get all the subtlety I wanted
in this entry. Kind of an
experiment in close values.
Of course, it's obviously a picture of the
Albino out for a walk in
a blizzard.

...What do you mean you can't
see him? If we zoom in there he is right in the center.

Sunday with the Grandparents

I felt bad that I didn't get in on the Swamp assignment. Just ran out of time. So thought I'd combine topics.

Back in Action

Peg leg Smith

I didn't have time to do anything new for this topic but it was a fun topic and I wanted to get something in. I had this old artistic experiment hanging around and thought I post it. Hope that's okay.

Here's a little info about the subject:
Thomas L. Smith, better known as 'Peg Leg,' 1801-1866, was a mountain man, prospector, and spinner of tall tales. Legends regarding his lost gold mine have grown through the years, and countless people have searched the desert for its fabulous wealth.

During a pitched battle in 1827 with Indians, he took a bullet to his leg, shattering the bone. His companions, who thought it would be fatal, carried him away from the battle. Not having any surgery tools on hand, and in an effort to save his own life, Peg Leg Smith took a knife and began sawing away at his lower leg. Between periods of nausea, fainting and swearing at his friends, he managed to cut off his own leg. Smith survived and later carved himself a wooden leg and learned to walk with it, thus came about the name of "Peg Leg" Smith.

Ape-worm

I really don't know what to say about this one. Although I'm feeling like asking my doctor for an intestinal flush.

Step Aside Christopher Robin!

I know I already posted but I kept having this vision of another well-known pig character as dictator. Finally I just had to try it even if it was a quickie. So here they are catching the vision.

All der Hanimals ist Hequal, but der Shvine ist der most HEQUAL!

All I recall about Animal Farm is that the pigs established a dictatorship over the other farm animals. I believe Orwell was mostly warning about communist dictators but I couldn't resist doing a take-off on good ol' Adolf.

10 years later, Mowgli still hangs around the Village

I didn't post last week so I decided to kind of combine the ideas to make up for it.

Turning Tragedy into Triumph! It's SuperScooper

As a young boy, mild-mannered Miles Prestwich, reached for a penny a lady had dropped on the road. As a result of his kind act both hands were run over by a Mack truck leaving them permanently flattened. Everyone felt sorry for Miles. Then one day Miles discovered that his hands gave him an advantage over ordinary mortals and SUPERSCOOPER was born! Now he aims to single-handedly, er, double-handedly clean up the town. He's especially useful during equestrian parades.

And you'll be pleased to know that when he's not fighting filth and corruption he has a great job at the local diner cooking flapjacks. Mmmm, tasty.

White Rabbit Club

I was debating whether to post this week since I didn't have time to finish this. I decided I would try putting up just a rough idea and hope everyone would be kind. The idea of this is that after a hard day jumping in and out of rabbit holes that the white rabbits (yes I'm imagining that they do shifts) meet in their gentlemen's club to relax and reminisce. Of course, their club is only about a block down from the Flamingo club.

The Old Man and the "C"

Well, somebody had to do it.