Zesty Sketches

The drawings and creative works of Zesty Aardvarks

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I recently got myself the Drawfee activity book: Draw Something Dumb, full of drawing prompts similar to the ones taken on the Drawfee progrum. Needless to say, I've made the mug my own.

For those unfamiliar, Drawfee is a youtube channel where these cartoonists and illustrators take insane fan suggestions and interpret them into drawings however they might see fit. In other words, they "take your dumb ideas and make even dumber drawings."

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A point of contention in pineapple society is whether or not they prefer people on their pizzas

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JEANS

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Attention passengers, this is your captain speaking. Please fasten your seatbelts and hold on to something, shit's about to go down. 

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This is what happens when you eat at Chipotle

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Some drawings I made on a trip out of state, 7-hour layover sucks.

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Fan art for Jacob Collier's second Beatsketch: What's Impossible. For context, in spring of 2020 Jacob released five minute-long "beatsketches" for songs that didn't make the cut into Djesse Vol. 3, which was released later that year. He challenged his followers to basically do what they will with all of the beatsketches. Most people sang/played over or remixed them, but I knew I had to do a drawing of some kind.

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Abstractions Pt. 4

Abstractions Pt. 1 Abstractions Pt. 2 Abstractions Pt. 3

COLOR!

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Hello?

Greetings! It's been a while, only over two and a half years. The reason, as one might guess, is that I haven't drawn much in that time. Most of my creative energy has been going into Warhammer, which you can find here (and will have a neat little something coming up soon!). But I've been drawing again lately! Plus there's still a solid amount of stuff I never uploaded here, both old and new. So that's what will be happening, a bit of catch-up and new stuff, try as I might to fight my inconsistency lol.

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Unus Annus: One Year

The life of Unus Annus is already more than halfway through, there’s only so much time left to enjoy it.

There’s some seriously hilarious, uncomfortable, and fascinating things on this channel. Don’t miss this opportunity to see it if you so desire, because now is your only chance.

I’ve compiled 30 of my favorite videos from the first 6 months here.

And to watch through every single video of the channel in chronological order, watch this playlist. Enjoy.

(I’ve also been keeping score of all the lives Ethan and Mark have taken in every single video, animate or inanimate. As of right now it’s a tie at 43 each, let’s see who can pull ahead)

Memento Mori

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Couple of sketchy monsters for ya

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Abstractions Pt. 3

Abstractions Pt. 1 Abstractions Pt. 2

I think this set of Abstractions is actually older than the pen ones. On looking back at these I can see how my time with both pen and pencil back then sort of combined into my current style and technique.

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Happy New Year ya freaky peeps! I threw together one of them Art vs Artist deals for the new decade so you can see my lovely, purposefully perturbed face. It’s been quite a year and I look forward to the next!

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The Overseer

(This is from September, didn’t want to post it during Inktober and forgot to post it until last night lol)

I’m imagining a lifecycle here, involving The Seer being a sort of larval stage. And over the course of hundreds of years they grow up to be these massive cosmic beings.

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I love... Orb

Yea it came from The Hole

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Inktober 31: Ripe

Happy Halloween!