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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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#1
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Hercule Van Wolfwinkle (Submission author) 5 years ago
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/
K L S Dennis 5 years ago
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.
Frazer Streames 5 years ago
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!
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#2
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111points
Farid Adiyanto 5 years ago
That's style called Cartoon, what do you mean you're not good at drawing? .. from the guy who can only draw sketch and overthinking about every details and bad at coloring, you are a Cartoonist... Keep striking those inks.
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Agnieszka Szczypinska 5 years ago
Love all their facial expressions and utter puzzlement :)
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Lesley Langlois 5 years ago
I have a hard time believing you never drew before, fren! I'm an artist, and I adore these!!!
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!
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Cynthia Humphreys 5 years ago
Rarely do I actually laugh out loud...but this one did it for me!
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!)
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Gail Nicholson 5 years ago
I have a hard time associating this one with, for example, #5. The artist is either improving at an exponential rate, or becoming sloppier as they are forced to produce more and more portraits! Or the 6yo is helping to move the queue ;)
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Georgia Salvatore 5 years ago
No, the dog isn't okay. It will most likely have problems with joints and overall movement of its body.
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Hilliary Smith 5 years ago
I think I recognize that dog, and it got a new owner who slowly got it to losing weight. Looks like a different dog now!
Martha Meyer 5 years ago
I hope you are right. That dog looks horribly sick.
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doggo-is-fren 5 years ago
Being severely overweight lowers quality of life See 600 pound people
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Sara Lopez 5 years ago
i love all of these but i really think he started on the dog on the right first and then ran out of time on the dog on the left bc children
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Brenda Burton 5 years ago
And they say humans can't tell jokes....that one was funny....well I thought it was....
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CatScratchFever 5 years ago
Your drawings look like the type of drawings professional artists draw when they want to draw a something whimsical, beautiful work, so much imagination.
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pusheen buttercup 5 years ago
Dog received was not dog that was pictured. Greatly relieved! Four stars
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Binxyminxem 5 years ago
I recognise that toy! My dogs have it and my sisters' dogs have one too! 😄
Chelle R. 5 years ago
Where did you & your sister get that awesome cheese burger!
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david dodson 5 years ago
f*****g brilliant............... its so that dog..........................................
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Brenda Burton 5 years ago
You are not fast enough for me today.......wake up and throw the ball faster.....faster....faster
#24
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Brenda Burton 5 years ago
NO I AM NOT FRENCH.........my mum knitted this outfit for me and I love it....
#25
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#27
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Brenda Burton 5 years ago
They say that I have "come to bed eyes" but really I just want you to cook my favourite foods....and love me
#28
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Brenda Burton 5 years ago
Home alone, no it's not always fun, especially when I can't find the TV controls.......
Margot Piasecka 5 years ago
Great. But I don't buy that he has no drawing experience 😑. Sounds more like a marketing trick.
#29
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Brenda Burton 5 years ago
Me ....oh I am just looking for love......and kindness, and lots and lots of food
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Rainbow Panda 5 years ago
Yes they’re derpy, crazy and unrealistic, but I think these are really cute. Art does not need to represent realism, like abstract! 👏
Red Pantone 5 years ago
Art is in the eyes of the beholder! I personally loved them all
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Farid Adiyanto 5 years ago
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. ..
Spikey Bunny 5 years ago
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!!!!
Jessica Cole 5 years ago
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!
Rainbow Panda 5 years ago
Yes they’re derpy, crazy and unrealistic, but I think these are really cute. Art does not need to represent realism, like abstract! 👏
Red Pantone 5 years ago
Art is in the eyes of the beholder! I personally loved them all
Load More Replies... Farid Adiyanto 5 years ago
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. ..
Spikey Bunny 5 years ago
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!!!!
Jessica Cole 5 years ago
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!
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