And what rough comp, its hour come round at last, slouches toward the forum to be born...?
Why, it's the third monthly sketch comp! This time out, it's
SIDEKICKSLast month's winner, Dark Jimbo explains:
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Sidekicks! They're the last word in loyalty, but they don't always get as much of the limelight as they deserve. From Wulf and the Gronk to Walter and Maria; from Ro-Jaws to Ukko, Purity Brown to Venus Bluegenes; to Dredd's whole supporting cast of Judges and Dante's Romanov siblings, there should be plenty to choose from! Approach the brief however you want, but let's give a little love to the B-teams!
You've had a week to get your thinking caps on, now you have one week to get your sketches in. The competition will close to entries end-of-day
Friday April 9th.You can render your entries in the medium of your choice, and you can enter as many times as you want, but please don't spend more than 45 minutes on each sketch.*
There will be a GLITTERING PRIZE for the winning entry. As well as getting to choose the theme for Sketch Comp #4, the winner will receive a randomly selected graphic novel from my Terrifyingly Tall Mountain of Comps™,
and a
signed Nick Percival print of Ol' Stoney Face hisself thanks to the generosity of Colin YNWA.
Get sketching, folks!
*Abandoned attempts don't count, so you can take as many stabs at getting an idea right as you need, and no one is standing over you with a stopwatch, but the 45 minutes starts when pencil/pen/crayons/fingers hit paper on the version you want to submit.
To kick us off, here's a 40-ish minute Ukko — the usual brush pens and ProMarkers.
(https://i.imgur.com/vUl9WYq.jpg)
Afternoon all and happy Good Friday. I got these done yesterday, both clocking in at 40mins. I decided to go old school physical media this time out with fine liners, copic shades & a sharpie.
Look forward to seeing who else gets featured!
Entry 1) Feral the stront. I was always a fan & disliked the way he was dispatched by Wagner & Ezquerra.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ex-ASYjXIAMdPGF?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
Entry 2) The Gronk! This one is more recognisable, and I was getting into the groove.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ex-ASYiW8AAEz7b?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
Those are fantastic.
Not really a sidekick, but close enough...
(https://i.imgur.com/2KQeYFy.jpg)
Tomwe - that Gronk shot is gorgeous. The look of joy is priceless.
What a start Guys - this will be a keenly fought comp. can't wait to see what appears over the next few days👍🏻
Oh I see... so its going to be like that again is it... well another competition where from those early entries its already looking like a nightmare to select a winner. All we need now is someone to come along and post a picture of Kid Knee... nah no one would ever do that would they...
Anyway here's my first, hope for a couple more before we are done...
(https://i.imgur.com/MVz9oaP.jpg)
Thanks Bolt-01 & Jim! Loving the Cleaner look, Colin
Quote from: Woolly on 02 April, 2021, 03:26:01 PM
Not really a sidekick, but close enough...
He's mad as hell, and he's not gonna take it any more! :)
Loving these. Viktor == Leon.
Ridiculously good stuff here.
This thread is already everything I hoped it would be when I picked the theme! ❤️
EDIT - don't mind me, just trying to post something here. Anyone know how to make a pic look a bit smaller when I post it on this thread? Mine always look huge!
Gruddammit. Still not working! Jim, hope you don't mind me sending it to you on FB again.
37 mins. The ONLY way I want to see Walter in my prog...
(https://i.postimg.cc/mZqfz7tj/B607-D9-D2-C387-4-B55-9-DEC-2-B036-ABBD13-A.jpg)
Quote from: Pete Wells on 02 April, 2021, 11:10:05 PM
37 mins. The ONLY way I want to see Walter in my prog...
(https://i.postimg.cc/mZqfz7tj/B607-D9-D2-C387-4-B55-9-DEC-2-B036-ABBD13-A.jpg)
Haa! Excellent. Nice to see you back, Wellso!
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 02 April, 2021, 08:22:39 PM
Anyone know how to make a pic look a bit smaller when I post it on this thread? Mine always look huge!
Yes - for this bit, imagine all the normal brackets () are actually square brackets []:
(img width=750)address of image goes here(/img)
So then you can do this:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ex-ASYiW8AAEz7b?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ex-ASYiW8AAEz7b?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ex-ASYiW8AAEz7b?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ex-ASYiW8AAEz7b?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
These are all great! Smoldering robot feet.. still too much Walter?
Quote from: Pete Wells on 02 April, 2021, 11:10:05 PM
37 mins. The ONLY way I want to see Walter in my prog...
Well, that's it! We might as well close the comp now if the Mighty Pete Wells™ has weighed in with an entry! Great to see you here, Pete, you great [spoiler]REDACTED[/spoiler].
Quote from: Funt Solo on 03 April, 2021, 01:50:33 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 02 April, 2021, 08:22:39 PM
Anyone know how to make a pic look a bit smaller when I post it on this thread? Mine always look huge!
Yes - for this bit, imagine all the normal brackets () are actually square brackets []:
(img width=750)address of image goes here(/img)
So then you can do this:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ex-ASYiW8AAEz7b?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ex-ASYiW8AAEz7b?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ex-ASYiW8AAEz7b?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ex-ASYiW8AAEz7b?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
Brilliant! Thanks, Funt!
So, with Funt's advice in mind, and apologies to Jim - I had no idea you'd done an Ukko profile too!
45 mins on the nose, in biro.
(https://scontent.fdub3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/s960x960/168839691_2457322001080314_4640920836409185959_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=0debeb&_nc_ohc=KUpQIAuWemkAX8fyxJI&_nc_ht=scontent.fdub3-1.fna&tp=7&oh=335faa2b3cba8176513a733d626e3027&oe=608D01C2)
The stuff you guys can do in 45 minutes is astounding!
Your pictures are all pretty good too... ;)
*Just* managed this one on the 45 min mark!
(https://i.imgur.com/Lt9dQXu.jpg)
Love it! Great sidekick too - a posh-voiced, dignified, violent hooligan if ever there was one. The symmetry of your picture is incredible.
Sorry, a lot of double-posting from me on this thread, but I've just finished my second one: Shrike - the sidekick's sidekick! 45 mins again, in biro.
(https://scontent.fdub3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/168892432_2458009604344887_7708357860760130826_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=0debeb&_nc_ohc=444O--93xj4AX8VZCUC&_nc_ht=scontent.fdub3-1.fna&oh=a23ddb0dc40b779bcf54f566df238ae4&oe=608E485A)
Well that's a wow! Shrike that is.
And Pete Wells - he's always a wow
AND Wooly - well WOW!
Jeez. This is going to be a swine to vote on.
Aw Jayzus, Jayzus! That's some damn good biro!
(Pete Wells has clearly won though, due to creative use of letters ;))
Quote from: Woolly on 03 April, 2021, 04:01:35 PM
Aw Jayzus, Jayzus! That's some damn good biro!
(Pete Wells has clearly won though, due to creative use of letters ;))
Thanks! I hadn't noticed Pete's letters before. No less a comeback than one would expect. We missed you, Wellsinator!
A board without a Pete Wells is no board at all!
We should vote him the new Mayor...
You heard it here first - start swotting up on your Sláine facts, Pete!
I call this "Pac-Meks". It's ball point and crayola on a pastel mint post-it.
(https://i.imgur.com/iKZyqNk.png)
And I call this "Grobbendonk's Deliverance". HB2 on a pastel mint post-it. Apologies to O'Neill.
(https://i.imgur.com/jESpSAo.png)
Quote from: Funt Solo on 03 April, 2021, 05:47:50 PM
I call this "Pac-Meks". It's ball point and crayola on a pastel mint post-it.
(https://i.imgur.com/iKZyqNk.png)
And I call this "Grobbendonk's Deliverance". HB2 on a pastel mint post-it. Apologies to O'Neill.
(https://i.imgur.com/jESpSAo.png)
😄😄
I suspect Kev would heartily approve!
Thanks for the kind comments chaps! I feel like this is a competition that I can hopefully enter without causing controversy! (Well, maybe I might cause a little, I wouldn't want life to be boring!)
Hats off to Wooly for spotting the not-too-subtle lettering. Fun Walter fact for you all - if you take the letters of "Walter the Wobot", mix them up, add some and take some away, it spells "Iwwitating Tosspiece." Who'd a thunk?
(https://i.postimg.cc/SKXT3K7k/SKETCH-COMP-Venus.jpg)
I finally found time to join in on the fun. It took a few false starts to get back into the hang of doing this.
sweet!
Brilliant!
So much energy in that Pictsy.
Anyway what I love about this competition is it makes me draw... even when I fail at least I gave it a go... I know what I was going for...
(https://i.imgur.com/WRAcB5I.jpg)
Got on a Lawless tack! Did Pettifer at the weekend in my sketchbook, and earlier today had a go at Kill-A-Man-Jaroo back on the Wacom & Animate. As Colin says, its the extra nudge I need to do some drawing. Now realising he's more of a x-men Beast, but hey ho.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyS9ioaVcAYSmeP?format=jpg&name=small)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyS-aTvVcAQ9eTi?format=jpg&name=large)
Absolutely love that Kill-a-Man-Jaroo Tomwe
These are all SO GOOD...!
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 03 April, 2021, 03:44:29 PM
Jeez. This is going to be a swine to vote on.
What he said. Even more so now.
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 06 April, 2021, 03:50:51 PM
What he said. Even more so now.
I was just thinking that...
Just to make things a bit easier... This can't be an entry because it took way, way, way too long. Thought I may as well not waste it, though, so I hope you don't mind me posting it anyway. (https://www.udrop.com/cache/plugins/filepreviewer/243663/c889665117867994a473a8a316ec406f5ed2594797de72b978fc7e8eb5c03cad/160x134_middle.jpg)
(https://i.postimg.cc/3w5bVFj7/SKETCH-COMP-Lulu.jpg)
Quote from: pictsy on 07 April, 2021, 08:03:46 PM
(https://i.postimg.cc/3w5bVFj7/SKETCH-COMP-Lulu.jpg)
That's a sidekick and a half - cracking pic Pictsy
Cripes.
You lot are all bloody mutants. Over two hours mine took - and it's still shite.
Keep it up!
Quote from: Trooper McFad on 07 April, 2021, 09:23:35 PM
That's a sidekick and a half - cracking pic Pictsy
Thanks. Now I'm worried it's hard to tell we are seeing her back.
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 07 April, 2021, 09:37:44 PM
Cripes.
You lot are all bloody mutants. Over two hours mine took - and it's still shite.
Keep it up!
I know the feeling. I look at my attempts and all I can see is what's wrong with them.
Quote from: pictsy on 07 April, 2021, 10:03:10 PM
Quote from: Trooper McFad on 07 April, 2021, 09:23:35 PM
That's a sidekick and a half - cracking pic Pictsy
Thanks. Now I'm worried it's hard to tell we are seeing her back.
That reads badly. I meant:
Thanks.
As an aside, I'm now worried ... etc.
Quote from: pictsy on 07 April, 2021, 10:03:10 PM
Quote from: Trooper McFad on 07 April, 2021, 09:23:35 PM
That's a sidekick and a half - cracking pic Pictsy
Thanks. Now I'm worried it's hard to tell we are seeing her back.
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 07 April, 2021, 09:37:44 PM
Cripes.
You lot are all bloody mutants. Over two hours mine took - and it's still shite.
Keep it up!
I know the feeling. I look at my attempts and all I can see is what's wrong with them.
No I got it was her back view on first viewing.
I think everyone is their own worst critic.
All the entries are brilliant.
I knew it was her back too - and what a back! Cracking picture, well done.
Cripes Pictsy, thats astounding!
Well that's a relief, thanks :)
And thanks for all the kind comments.
Will be difficult to top that Lulu I think.
Superb.
Yep - hope you come up with a good theme for the next comp, Pictsy, you fecker ;)
BUMP! Technically, you should only have until end-of-day tomorrow to get your entries in, but I think I've got at least one more in me and I'm not sure I'll hit the deadline, so we'll let this one run over the weekend and close it first thing Monday morning.
So, if you were toying with an entry, you have an extra couple of days to get it drawn and submitted. :)
Oh crumbs -- hoping to get it this afternoon or tomorrow morning!
Loving the work folk.
(https://i.postimg.cc/3xwkshN3/SKETCH-COMP-Comrade-Ed-2.jpg)
Comrade Ed from Red Razors.
Dark Jimbo was hoping for some obscure sidekicks, so I hope this qualifies.
I think I might have one more in me before the comp closes.
Oh that is fantastic - poor ol' Ed best thing in the series and cruelly killed off off camera at the start of the second book!
Oh lush! Love these late entries!
Quote from: Tomwe on 08 April, 2021, 07:29:28 PM
Oh lush! Love these late entries!
All the entries so far have indeed been fantastic.
Remember that, in a flagrant abuse of the rules to enable me to (hopefully) get another entry in, you now have until
first thing Monday morning before the thread lock hits and the competition closes.
Quote from: pictsy on 08 April, 2021, 05:46:57 PM
Comrade Ed from Red Razors.
Dark Jimbo was hoping for some obscure sidekicks, so I hope this qualifies.
Yup, that'll definitely do it!
Okay. Last one. I think four entries is enough. Another obscure one, maybe. Tool from Sancho Panzer.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/DEHf2j3SqiBVB-EIbKcFs8zd5UadQm3x7vv2uQ0wGLhxpKleL5hqTXIk1r7HcdWTPwLiEB_esc44TMCsdHweEMMCIZhOzTfFPXd1duSZfiMZTile5ahecN4vbHV4icCUgtYyYkgHg4jeX4jx9RzODN7rGGDpwFYElkeNqPaopROUlREzXn-r_tI8jOpCDI2xzjYs4x4-bHJJeb5byGdT1BP4Wyo72Vh3xNPmbQpbsHwG6ChdjhtZJWq8zVB-2mO3Z_sZOnkhy18NrWp6wcegijTJzbZthu_1ERbIr7nmOGiexeESA1Bhc8ekORlN7gJDvKfG-yxbT-NsPvATNRrGwjvJVcxT_Jyf_tHm4e5ItAodjeZErat3o8aEqfceWqswRP7g-MEombIHIe8X_5QIEJHmRVKmg9XuILWB0tKiK99X5rewFMD1qkK_JX4r4B26v3SpTpI9747hkROeheKtUE8SBYPewJWqUGK3SnFh-4Lh0AJprlKbkeMC6Ij8NatpIvc1n53ctCCuCSW-6uE2fxyOWeRr36EMEyUP2ybpQL5Gg20sqJTurUGutIvfEm4HeoLYD1wxFnasPKQjaswdqAwGhlcDBMFAt6-ZVM7etmXg1I20uS-X-91frLdFnapVMOvTKCP4jQGA_7lmxt-jEwFDQxyZAdyBDwpD-i2-gccEkRHba0H9QCdTJSVtDeaGY7pzFq-y2v1W9BIpF4Kpb2i2=w683-h954-no?authuser=0)
I surprised myself with this one.
There may be a problem with my other entries. The image hosting site I've been using seems to be kinda screwed at the moment. I'm not sure whether it's my end or not (probably not as I've tried with multiple devices and browsers). I think I may need to post them again so Jim has a link for the voting thread. Is it okay to do this?
Quote from: pictsy on 09 April, 2021, 04:29:33 PM
I think I may need to post them again so Jim has a link for the voting thread. Is it okay to do this?
FWIW, I can't see the first one, but the rest are all showing fine at the moment. If you want to repost just to be on the safe side, however, please feel free!
Quote from: Jim_Campbell on 09 April, 2021, 04:35:43 PM
FWIW, I can't see the first one, but the rest are all showing fine at the moment. If you want to repost just to be on the safe side, however, please feel free!
Thanks :)
(http://tinyurl.com/cksa8uv7)
(http://tinyurl.com/2pv2nrb9)
(https://tinyurl.com/yfexwdvw)
I can't see any of those, just blank frames :(
Quote from: The Legendary Shark on 09 April, 2021, 05:50:14 PM
I can't see any of those, just blank frames :(
Thanks for the heads up. Google Photos apparently isn't an alternative for image hosting. I guess it makes sense. Anyway, it looks like my usual image hosting site is working again.
Massive apologies for the disruption.
I'll try this again:
Quote from: pictsy on 09 April, 2021, 04:29:33 PM
Okay. Last one. I think four entries is enough. Another obscure one, maybe. Tool from Sancho Panzer.
(https://i.postimg.cc/JnB03S6V/SKETCH-COMP-Tool.jpg0)
I surprised myself with this one.
Pictsy are you gunning for 1st, 2nd & 3rd place?
Another from me while watching the telly, a little bit of a cheat...
(https://i.postimg.cc/13Bvk3Tz/EFA8-CAB1-36-E8-4799-886-E-67-C1178-F6-AE7.jpg)
Quote from: Pete Wells on 09 April, 2021, 09:39:10 PM
Another from me while watching the telly, a little bit of a cheat...
(https://i.postimg.cc/13Bvk3Tz/EFA8-CAB1-36-E8-4799-886-E-67-C1178-F6-AE7.jpg)
Would you mess with that sidekick ?
Excellent pic
So far some excellent entries !!!!! Again choosing the best is not going to be easy
(http://www.futurequake.co.uk/imagebucket/davepersonal/KidKnee-20210410-Web.jpg)
bit later than planned, and just glad to be here!
Cool entries there :)
Damnit only three votes!!!!!
I know... :-\
Well all that whining about how great The Cursed Earth means I totally changed tack on what I planned to do and here's my latest. Hope for one more tomorrow along my more traditional lines...
(https://i.imgur.com/IbevqHn.jpg)
Nice :)
Excellent!
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 10 April, 2021, 05:56:00 PM
Well all that whining about how great The Cursed Earth means I totally changed tack on what I planned to do and here's my latest. Hope for one more tomorrow along my more traditional lines...
(https://i.imgur.com/IbevqHn.jpg)
Another cracking pic . This is gonna be the hardest decision yet for my top 3 😖
I wasn't going to enter this time, but you lot have just made it look like so much damn fun I didn't want to be left out!
(https://i.imgur.com/qi02z4c.jpg)
Wow!
Jovus Crust.
Anybody wanna buy a Wacom? The bloody thing's wasted on me :(
Can someone pop around next time I'm doing one of these and scream STOP into my ear when I've done enough? I kept... ready... tweaking this one when I should have stopped.
(https://i.imgur.com/TUWDkBi.jpg)
Oh and the other things has this been done before? I have this niggle in the back of my mind that someone did the Spikes and Tweak as Calvin and Hobbes in the Nerve Centre?
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 11 April, 2021, 05:29:41 PM
Can someone pop around next time I'm doing one of these and scream STOP into my ear when I've done enough? I kept... ready... tweaking this one when I should have stopped.
(https://i.imgur.com/TUWDkBi.jpg)
That's brilliant- after 2000Ad Calvin & Hobbes are my most reread comic books. 🤔 maybe a figure could be done?
Wow!! Voting is going to be impossible!
FFS! :O
Just how in the hell do you all do it?!? These last two pages have been wall-to-wall brilliance, voting on all this is going to be an absolute nightmare!
Jimbo - God it's good to see your stuff again! That Grobbendonk* is just sublime!
Colin - Nope, stop that... faaar too talented..
Pictsy - I'm assuming you're a machine.. ;) Just stunning stuff, piece after piece.
*(Grobbendonk spoke gibberish, a Fringeworld dialect.)
Need to knock all the rust off, tried a few and wasn't happy so I went for cheap pee-pee humour...
(https://i.imgur.com/gnbW9vE.jpg)
Love it Deever
Aye, brilliant stuff - done in an Ezquerra style too, which is pretty amazing. Also, Colin's Calvin and Hobbs homage is incredible. Best sketch comp yet - how am I going to choose three?
Yet more fantastic entries coming in at the end, there. Annoyingly, despite my flagrant abuse of the rules, work conspired against my follow-up entry, so we'll call this: COMPETITION CLOSED.
There will be a voting thread along in due course, although I have not the slightest frickin' clue how we're supposed to make a selection out of that lot...