What the hey...

Hey guys! Where have you all been? Sheesh.

Jocks and Nerds

As I went about sketching rabbits and turtles, I was suddenly struck with inspiration about the symbolism in the fable.

The more I thought about it, the more I became convinced that this is what Aesop meant.

Tortoise vs. the Hare: With a Vengeance

After seeing it posted in black and white I thought Shane and Joe (cough) were right... it needed some color, so I splashed some on. I used an air cannon, can you tell? Have a great weekend guys!

Tortoise vs Hare

Tortoise and Hare

Seems like the Tortoise and the Hare have come to some sort of truce and now are marathon buddies.

Boulder Induced Sleep

This may very well be the reason the Hare took such a long nap during the race.

Tortoise vs. HAIR

The war wages on. Each morning a new battle begins. Some evenings bring victory, others.....
How long will it continue? When will it end? No one knows. No one asks. No one cares.....

The Race Is On!

Don't you wonder what's fueling that thing? I thought I'd add a background.

Tortoise vs Hare

FIGHT NIGHT!

New Topic: TORTOISE vs. HARE

The topic for the next week: "Tortoise vs. Hare."
And that's all I have to say about it.

Love

Yikes fallin behind. Heres a simple cupid

Toon Club: Love

What could be better than sitting down with an alien for a big scoop of something sweet? This is love. (Don't tell my wife or kids.)

Some Girls Go For Anybody That'll Give 'em Flowers

My boys!

If you haven't seen it yet, here they are!

Check out Episode 2 in particular.

Toon Club Collaboration

Take advantage of a serendipitous thought process, Nathan and I have decided to post our first collaboration here.

Cupid

It seemed my girlish duty to do something soft and cute and pretty for this topic.

Love and Gluttony

Hey Moms! Why not give your little orcas a treat they'll really LOVE!?

PENGUIN POPS!

(now with new "emperor" flavor)

Love Is Blind

One Crazy Summer?....Remember?....Anyone?....I'll just shut up now.

Sailors Love Mermaids

As I understand it, the myth of mermaids began when sailors mistook manatees draped in seaweed for beautiful women with flowing hair. Sailors are cool, and manatees are totally hot.

Forbidden Love

New Topic: LOVE

In honor of next week's Valentine's Day, this week's Toon Club topic is "LOVE."

Walrus and Carpenter

Forgive the dodge and burn, and the lack of research... My one goal was... POST SOMETHING!

The Time Has Come!

I forget who ate who

The Walrus and the Carpenter

I kept trying to think of good actual walrus ideas, but that song kept popping into my head.

The Walrus & the Carpenter

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