Literal Sketches - Guest Sketcher!

While I'm busy doing all kinds of uninteresting stuff, the Vegetable Assassin has kindly stepped into the breach with this wonderful Literal Sketch.

I guess a good clue is that it describes me, in a way (if that's not a good enough clue, put your mouse over the image, the answer is in the hovertext).

Literal Sketch Competition Winners!

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in my Secret Sketch competition! Turnout wasn't as high as I hoped, but every single entry that I received made me very happy, so I just had to give an award to each and every participant (although, yes, there is one overall winner - no peeking)!

There were three different Literal Sketches, so even if you participated, there are two to see that you will not have anticipated.

Let's get started!


Category 1: Burning the Candle at Both Ends.

Most Punnilicious: Scope, burning the Ken Doll at both ends!

Incidentally, I did try to hand out the three categories evenly, but Scope was the only one in this category who ended up doing it.

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Category 2: Monkey Wrench

Best use of Clip Art: Miss.Chief - just look at this adorable, cheery fellow.



Literal Sketchiest: Mr Condescending - I love that his tail is the wrenching mechanism. Also, the look of unbridled joy on his cute little face!


Most dazed & confused: Cora - Heehee, look at his spirally crazy eye!



Most Surprising Tangent: The Imaginary Reviewer, with a...


... monk-y wrench!

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Category 3: Badgering the Witness

Most "Wait, is that even a badger?": Words... words... words... - I would hate to be under cross-examination by this evil and ferocious creature! It turns out American badgers are way more bad-ass than British ones.


Most worth handing in at the last minute: Morgan - I love that the bunny looks as if she is being extremely badgered!

And the overall winner is...


Drumroll please.....



Simon - The fact that this looks like a courtroom sketch is genius, but for some reason it's that little outstretched paw that just kills me.







Thank you so much to everyone who played. Maybe I will have to run this again sometime and more people might have a go?

Ladies and gentlemen, please take your Sweet Blogger Awards and display them with pride!

Come on!

Hey guys, just a quick one to let you know I decided to give y'all an extension until Tuesday night on the Secret Sketch competition, but please get those entries in because the more there are the more awesome it will be.

And if you haven't entered the competition yet please do, honestly I am not expecting y'all to carve it in fresco or something, just ten minutes with a pencil or pen and I'm sure you could come up with something!!!

So shoot me an email and prepare to bust out your mad art skillz!!!

Competition: Secret Sketch

Are you good at drawing, or at least amusingly bad at Photoshop or similar?

If you would like to be part of my next Literal Sketch post, please email me (address is up there in the Original Drafts badge) to receive your assignment, which you will then illustrate in the manner of your choosing and email to me in JPEG format.

I will choose the winner as soon as I get one that rocks over the weekend, and post them on Monday.

The winner (there may be more than one) gets...

... ummm...

... attention*, pimpage and link love. And a Sweet Blogger Award.


*Sweet, sweet attention, the black tar heroin** of the blogosphere. Mmmm...

**I have no idea what the difference is between regular heroin and black tar heroin, but hot damn, it sounds so much worse!

Literal Sketches #3: Heh.

Prologue:
So who would have thought that humble tap water would inspire people to extremely polarized and specific views? Not me, but I'm glad y'all liked it. In fact I have another poll coming up soon. I was a bit sad that the return of Original Drafts was met with the blog equivalent of crickets and tumbleweeds*, but however...

Anyway here is another Literal Sketch for you to guess!

Behold the Crayola-y goodness (you can click on him for a closer look).

Here's a big clue to the answer: notice he is wearing very dignified spectacles. Also, he is not a horse.



*Don't judge me, I know you also measure your self-worth by numbers of blog comments! ...oh, is that really only me?

Literal Sketches #2: This one's easy.

A quick & dirty one for Friday.