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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& #39;ve got your pint of Buggins Old Shit & a pack of badger rind scratchings, I& #39;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& #39;s something about the man himself that inspired you. But enough. I& #39;m going to post the lot, more or less without comment til we& #39;re done
So let& #39;s start with @Acerte1& #39;s fine evocation of the great Quentin Blake, & this fine thing from @AuntyNationalAH, conjuring up Tim& #39;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& #39;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& #39;t piss, but CAN WE BE SURE???)
Mostly, tho, you all stuck to straight forward caricature portraiture. Here& #39;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& #39;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& #39;s @ShaneoFontaine& #39;s seriosuly disturbing image of NanTim, @Sidley_Assassin& #39;s TwatTim, @skinnyandwirey& #39;s SpideryTim & @Songicartoons& #39; TomStoppardTim
Moving on now to @sogno_doc& #39;s PossibleNakedTim (pass the slops tray!), @StephenCliffe3& #39;s RatherSmoothTim, @stevemaythe1st& #39;s HyperTim & @SteveWeatherill& #39;s DividedLikeGaulInto3PartsTim
And into the home stretch with regular @t_colgate& #39;s RottingPotatoTim, @t_unwin& #39;s HeManTim, @TheNickHoward& #39;s CroonTim & a lovely thing from the archives of the incomparable @wefail
With just the great @wilburdawbarn& #39;s TimsHeadTim and @Will_Overman& #39;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& #39;s BrushTim
And an extra point, as always, for Flogging The Joke Til It& #39;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& #39;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& #39;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& #39; drawings are beautiful..
...but the winner of the Great Green Greasy Gutwrenching #DrawTimMartin is this, from @PrivateEyeNews& #39;s very own @SaHreports David Ziggy Greene, which perfectly captures its subject& #39;s deranged, obese, grubby, manic bumptiousness. Well done! That& #39;s all folks!
