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I Have Never Drawn In My Life, But I Am Doing Crappy Pet Portraits To Raise Money For Charity (30 Pics)
Hi there!
I'm basically drawing crappy portraits of people's pets in return for donations and have so far raised over $1000 in a few weeks for my local Homelessness Charity.
It's all happened so organically without much thought or effort. A little over two weeks ago, I was making some "thank you" cards with my six-year-old. Whilst he was making his card, I just doodled a couple of pictures of our dog—they were really rubbish, I’m not an artist and have never really drawn in my life.
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These are my pictures and we’re raising some great money for an excellent cause - over £1500 in two weeks! If you haven’t already, please give my Facebook page a like and share. I’m posting around six new pictures every day: https://www.facebook.com/portraitsbyhercule/
Dear Hercule, I am a professional artist. I paint portraits and caricatures of people with and without their animals and animals with and without their people. Please believe me, I know what I am talking about when I say you have a very rare gift. Your instinctive, honest, sublimely naive line is something old fakers like me dream about. No matter how successful you become - and you will be very successful - I implore you, remain true to yourself or you will lose that priceless gift and become ordinary and forgettable. I also implore you to seek shrewd guidance and support or your innocence will be abused by 'clients' who will give a fiver to charity then sell your signed work for hundreds if not more. Hercule, you are already famous and famous people will already know you. I am being deadly serious when I suggest you should make yourself available for contact by someone like Banksy, for example, whose integrity is beyond doubt: you would not find a better source of shrewd advice.
These drawings are absolutely fantastic, he has genuine talent, please please don’t ever stop
As a joke, I uploaded the two pictures to my Facebook page with a jokey comment about Pet Portraits being for sale for just £299. No VAT. A friend commented asking me to draw her dog, then another, then another, and by the end of the day, I had probably drawn about five portraits and we'd all had a giggle in the process.
Then, after a couple of shares, I started getting requests from people I didn't know asking for portraits. That’s when I set up the Facebook page Pet Portraits By Hercule and the JustGiving page which is raising money for my local homelessness charity, Turning Tides. I was having fun drawing the pictures, people seemed to enjoy laughing at them, and if we could make a bit of money for a brilliant cause in the process—great!
My initial dream was to try to raise £299 (around $388), which was the price I had initially quoted as the price for my portraits. Less than two weeks later, and we have raised just shy of £1000 (around $1299), the page has nearly 700 likes, and I've been invited to display at a gallery! I currently have 70 or so requests for portraits, but the more the merrier!
All the portraits are free! All I’m asking for is a donation to the charity and that can be whatever people can afford to give—I’ve had donations from £2-£50!
The only thing I ask is that unless people are happy to donate without expecting a portrait, they hold off until I have done their pic. Otherwise I’ll end up in a situation where people may donate without actually getting a picture (I’m trying to get them all done, but that’s looking less and less likely the more requests I get!)
Note: this post originally had 51 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
Yes they’re derpy, crazy and unrealistic, but I think these are really cute. Art does not need to represent realism, like abstract! 👏
Art is in the eyes of the beholder! I personally loved them all
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These styles called Cartoon,.. he said he isn't good at drawing, but he is a cartoonist.. it doesn't have to be as good as an artist's masterpiece, as long as he love to draw, and the people who asked him feel grateful. That is enough. ..
Ok. I'm a real artist & just spend several days drawing just 1 dog. It's great and the owner loves it... but Dude! If you can do this and make some money for charity- Go YOU!!!!
For real though, excellent charity cause, the homeless are people who need help, for so many overwhelming reasons. Not only a great cause but a great way to raise money. And they are so damn funny!
These are my pictures and we’re raising some great money for an excellent cause - over £1500 in two weeks! If you haven’t already, please give my Facebook page a like and share. I’m posting around six new pictures every day: https://www.facebook.com/portraitsbyhercule/
These drawings are the fine print no one ever reads. The subtle hint of insanity the in the drawings is the buy one get one free that every dog owner knows. The flip side of Fido. Aa WSIYGperfect way t
Finger slipped again! I hear you laughing Jobs. Get a life. Oops. Too late. Gotcha back. I will try to finish what my post was trying to say. A WSIWYG of your dog and what you're actually getting. The lovely K9ine and the Goofball that is also included within Fido's package. Truth in advertising is rare. But I think she nailed it. The pics are great. And whether you went for the Heinz 57 mutt for free, or paid big bucks for a top of the line pup with papers, more bang for your buck dog has the looney gene just like the freebie pooch purchase. Those papers will come in handy during PT101, Everything You Need To Know About Potty Training.
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Enjoyed all the drawings for a very good cause. Laughed a lot, thank you!
I think these drawings are wonderful. He really brings the spirit of the animals to life, very sweet.
Quickly gathers my grand-pups pictures....HITS SENDS. After this he will be soooo busy!!
Omg these made me laugh so hard. They are sooo bad they are actually amazing to me. The best part it is for a good cause. So props to the artist. :)
They're NOT bad, they're caricatures, and they capture the silly exuberance of dogs like mine, better than anything I have ever seen.
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He's hilarious in real life too, got a mutual friend and his lists of things to do he posts on fb are brilliant
It's for charity, it's hilarious, and holy s**t I'm a liberal but I think I can see why they say everyone is a pussy now. Sensitive to the eye proportion of the dogs. Let's all take a stand!!
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Yes they’re derpy, crazy and unrealistic, but I think these are really cute. Art does not need to represent realism, like abstract! 👏
Art is in the eyes of the beholder! I personally loved them all
Load More Replies... These styles called Cartoon,.. he said he isn't good at drawing, but he is a cartoonist.. it doesn't have to be as good as an artist's masterpiece, as long as he love to draw, and the people who asked him feel grateful. That is enough. ..
Ok. I'm a real artist & just spend several days drawing just 1 dog. It's great and the owner loves it... but Dude! If you can do this and make some money for charity- Go YOU!!!!
For real though, excellent charity cause, the homeless are people who need help, for so many overwhelming reasons. Not only a great cause but a great way to raise money. And they are so damn funny!
These are my pictures and we’re raising some great money for an excellent cause - over £1500 in two weeks! If you haven’t already, please give my Facebook page a like and share. I’m posting around six new pictures every day: https://www.facebook.com/portraitsbyhercule/
These drawings are the fine print no one ever reads. The subtle hint of insanity the in the drawings is the buy one get one free that every dog owner knows. The flip side of Fido. Aa WSIYGperfect way t
Finger slipped again! I hear you laughing Jobs. Get a life. Oops. Too late. Gotcha back. I will try to finish what my post was trying to say. A WSIWYG of your dog and what you're actually getting. The lovely K9ine and the Goofball that is also included within Fido's package. Truth in advertising is rare. But I think she nailed it. The pics are great. And whether you went for the Heinz 57 mutt for free, or paid big bucks for a top of the line pup with papers, more bang for your buck dog has the looney gene just like the freebie pooch purchase. Those papers will come in handy during PT101, Everything You Need To Know About Potty Training.
Load More Replies... Enjoyed all the drawings for a very good cause. Laughed a lot, thank you!
I think these drawings are wonderful. He really brings the spirit of the animals to life, very sweet.
Quickly gathers my grand-pups pictures....HITS SENDS. After this he will be soooo busy!!
Omg these made me laugh so hard. They are sooo bad they are actually amazing to me. The best part it is for a good cause. So props to the artist. :)
They're NOT bad, they're caricatures, and they capture the silly exuberance of dogs like mine, better than anything I have ever seen.
Load More Replies... He's hilarious in real life too, got a mutual friend and his lists of things to do he posts on fb are brilliant
It's for charity, it's hilarious, and holy s**t I'm a liberal but I think I can see why they say everyone is a pussy now. Sensitive to the eye proportion of the dogs. Let's all take a stand!!
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