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Right! I spy clear water for an hour, so time to deal with the results of the Great Greasy #DrawTimMartin Challenge! Now once your sitting comfortably on that spongey pub carpet and you've got your pint of Buggins Old Shit & a pack of badger rind scratchings, I'll begin. Ready?
Comfy? Cool. Now, I have to say that this was one of the best #Draw Challenges yet, with excellent entries from old & new contributors. Maybe it's something about the man himself that inspired you. But enough. I'm going to post the lot, more or less without comment til we're done
So let's start with @Acerte1's fine evocation of the great Quentin Blake, & this fine thing from @AuntyNationalAH, conjuring up Tim's fundamental scribbliness (emphasis on fundament). Then these from @BenChilton & @brookes_gareth
Next up, a charming tableau from regular @BurtOHare, lovely drawing from Cartooning big boy @cairnstoon. Likewise from @cartoonelli, & Tim morphing into both Michael Heseltine AND Christopher Walken from @cartoonsidrew
Some charming primitivism from @Chance4321, an eponymously crap portrait from @Crap_Portraits, lovely bit of follore horror from regular @crompolius and Dickensian squalor from @davidpeterkerr
And here's our last winner, @DavidWaywell, getting pathological, a gurning clodhopping Tim from @Ed_Grace, clearly some kind of spirit drawing from @geniaphobic and the Obvious Joke (and none the worse for that) from @Hennell_Draws
And let us pause for a moment there from the alphabetical unfolding of these excellent entries to address some themes that emerged. Here, for starters, are the 2 Worzel Gummages, from @DanSPeterson & @eddlyACTIVE respectively (always happy to accept all media, by the way)
And the two shapeshifting pintomorphic portraits of the Great Mine Host, from @etchedinwater & @flintworks (who assured me that isn't piss, but CAN WE BE SURE???)
Mostly, tho, you all stuck to straight forward caricature portraiture. Here's a nice yelly iddiot from @IamHappyToast, a sort of creepy crochet stained glass window from @iHarbonaut, bouffanty Tim from @iron_madin & inferences of sticky fluids from previous winner @JamesDFMellor
Another none-the-worse-for-it obvious worse-for-wear gag from @JaseToons with PukeTim, foulmouthed fun with FuckTim from @JasonNParkinson, HauntTim from @JeremyWDunn &, I think, PicassoTim from former winner @joe_ackenbush
Something here from veteran pro & old mucker @KipperWilliams, which is very encouraging, a SlugTim from @Kloob, a MagwitchyTim from, suitably enough, @MagwitchC & a FleeingTim from @mahoneytoon
Then there's this lovely drawing from @marcENGAN, something simple from p[revious winner @mikestokoe, SpoonyMrSpoonsTim from @modernhorrorsuk & a very good "Vote Heave" gag from @mrahayes
Splendidly drawn Tim from regular @nickymonkey, SuperHeroTim from our very first winner @nuffinc, a fantastic & chilling photmontage from @PastorSauceBoat & a strangely cuddly Tim from @PaulRRed1
Just getting under the wire with PissingBulldogTim was this lovely thing from @PeppyScott, a charming MugTim from @peterrdy, along with PukeCocktailTim, and Yowling(digital dry point?) Tim from @raisethegame
Then @robbybullen gave us both HowlingTim & SeriouslyOutOfFocusTim, MadTim from previous winner @RobertDWells & this great hommage to South Park (yes?) from @shadwell_NTT
Here's @ShaneoFontaine's seriosuly disturbing image of NanTim, @Sidley_Assassin's TwatTim, @skinnyandwirey's SpideryTim & @Songicartoons' TomStoppardTim
Moving on now to @sogno_doc's PossibleNakedTim (pass the slops tray!), @StephenCliffe3's RatherSmoothTim, @stevemaythe1st's HyperTim & @SteveWeatherill's DividedLikeGaulInto3PartsTim
And into the home stretch with regular @t_colgate's RottingPotatoTim, @t_unwin's HeManTim, @TheNickHoward's CroonTim & a lovely thing from the archives of the incomparable @wefail
With just the great @wilburdawbarn's TimsHeadTim and @Will_Overman's MedievalKingofFoolsGammonKingTim before we start narrowing things down
Now, I said there would be extra points for objets trouve, and so extra points are duly awarded to @davidsjanes for MouldyPhiladelphiaCheeseTim, @lightacandleOTM for RancidCarrotTim, GammonTim by @PeterOHanrahaH (via @creativeelc) & the sublime genius of @Skirwingle's BrushTim
And an extra point, as always, for Flogging The Joke Til It's Just A Damp Patch On The Lino, and also just for simple stamina, to @SwissRich71 for, once more, this
Tho sadly those extra points aren't quite enough to grab the top slot. A special mention also goes to my brilliant mate @blueloutter for suggesting the @DrawTimMartin Challenge in the first place, tho obviously as she suggested it she clearly can't win. This, tho, is wonderful
Which leaves us with 4 last depictions of the Great Man Himself, each of which is, in its own way, sublime. I just love this Mervyn Peake vision of LionTim from @StuDrawings, and both previous winner @kevinwellsart & my erstwhile padowan @seamus_jennings' drawings are beautiful..
...but the winner of the Great Green Greasy Gutwrenching #DrawTimMartin is this, from @PrivateEyeNews's very own @SaHreports David Ziggy Greene, which perfectly captures its subject's deranged, obese, grubby, manic bumptiousness. Well done! That's all folks!
