Man Who’s Never Drawn In His Life Does Crappy Pet Portraits For Charity And Raises Over £13.6k (30 New Pics)

There’s a lot of ways to win at life and we can safely say that Phil Heckels, a dad from Worthing in England, has taken the cake when it comes to art. The artist goes by the alias Hercule Van Wolfwinkle and (at the time of writing) has raised a whopping 13.6k pounds (nearly 18k dollars) for a homeless charity, Turning Tides, by drawing ‘crappy’ portraits of people’s pets.

Hercule, 38, doesn’t hide the fact that he isn’t an artist and had never really drawn in his life before. However, one day, he was making some ‘thank you’ cards with his 6-year-old when he drew a couple of doodles and uploaded them on Facebook. His friends thought the portraits were brilliant and asked Hercule to draw their pets. And that’s when the ball started rolling. Scroll down, upvote your fave ‘lousy’ pet drawings, and let us know which portraits you loved the most. If you want to help support Hercule’s local charity, consider making a donation. And when you’re done enjoying this list, check out Hercule’s original post on Bored Panda right here.

Hercule told Bored Panda that the response has been "completely overwhelming" and that he still can't quite believe that there are so many people out there who think his drawings are any good. "The requests for portraits have gone through the roof. I have no way of counting the messages in my Facebook inbox, but I think there must be approximately 2,000, maybe more. I have had to slow down the output a little over these couple of days due to all of the media commitments taking up time, but hopefully, people will bear with me and I hope to be back to drawing 3-5 portraits per day which has probably been about my average," he said.

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