Ev the Toonist's Bigshot Art Blog
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Strange, Lumpy toys to study
Here's some good, lumpy-faced toys for still-life sketching practice.
Vintage rubber heads
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Cake Pans have great colors
Consume your cartoon idols.
Cake pans have been a fascination of mine for a while, lots of unique shapes.
I especially love Wilton cake pans because of the images of the finished cakes included with said pans.
Beautiful colors and varying shades:
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Saturday, May 16, 2026
Lumpy Fun With Tom and Jerry
One of the best ways to learn how to draw is to do life drawing; just sketch pictures of any things you can find in your house. That's a basic lesson I learned from community college.
One of the best kinds of objects to use for life sketching are Toys.
For the sake of this practice session, I randomly looked for Tom and Jerry toys and found some great "Lumpy Head" toys from the 80s.
Here is my whole page of lumpy head sketches from today:
I like this one especially, real mankey!
More cartoon heads for you:
Not the most accurate drawing (obviously), but still.
Puppets are great for designing cartoon characters, especially older ones.
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Critters for the meantime
I like to do lots of drawings of strange, nonexistent creatures; sometimes, I digitize them. Have some to tide you over, in both transparent and JPG variations.
JPGs
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Hello, everyone; my name is Evan, and I've created this blog as a place to discuss various topics related to art and animation, as well ...
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Here's some good, lumpy-faced toys for still-life sketching practice. ...
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Here's my first post on here featuring some of the basic digital sketches I usually do now; most of the time, I use these to fill space ...














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