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Thanks to goss for suggesting this one!




Challenge #80: Toon Someone

This is a portrait challenge adapted from the ToonMe challenge where artists draw from a photo reference, making part of the selfie a cartoonized version in a variety of styles.

For our challenge, we're widening that to include cartoonizing a pic of anyone in the public domain (e.g. actors playing your favorite characters, or other celebrities), a pet, a selfie, or anyone else who gives you the okay to post the finished work here. Any art style or medium for the drawing is fine.

Posts can be a composite image like in the ToonMe examples, but that's technically tricky and not necessary. You can just post the reference pic alongside the cartoon version, or simply post the cartoon version by itself if you want the greater anonymity offered by a cartoon. :D

A round-up post for submissions to this challenge will be done at the end of August.

Congrats to those who took part in this challenge!



Entries submitted for drawing challenge 78 - mermay 2026:

Happily there were too many to list separately - the challenge tag is here to scroll through them all. The artists were leecetheartist (who once again managed a pic for every day of the month !), mekare, and mific. Fandoms were original works, Heated Rivalry, and One Piece.

As usual, this challenge as well as all of our previous challenges will remain open, so you can continue to submit entries to the community any time after the Round Up date. Be sure to tag your art post with the challenge name, so that it can be added to the list.

Thanks to all who participated in this challenge! :)

Challenge #79: Pride!

It's Pride month once again in the USA and many other places, so that's our theme for June. You can draw or paint LGBTQ+ characters from canon or fandom, original characters representing some aspect of Pride, key historical LGBTQ figures, art based on the colours of the Pride flags, rainbows - wherever your imagination takes you!

It's fine to depict slash, femslash, trans, poly, ace etc. characters and relationships beloved of fandom, whether or not they're explicit in canon. Or show your favourite characters taking part in Pride activities like parades, marches, or parties - anything linked with Pride and the LGBTQ+ community.

A round-up post for submissions to this challenge will be done at the end of June.

(round-up from Mermay coming shortly)