About a year ago, a woman named Sam Skinner decided to take her drawing skills to the next level. She tried to draw herself a portrait in 50 famous cartoon characters. Just recently, she completed the project and the results are simply amazing.
“I decided to do the challenge because I’ve seen so many people do it online and was absolutely inspired by them,” Skinner told Bored Panda. “Doing this project was simply to help me become more familiar with doing graphic/digital design. That being said, a few of the characters in the style challenge are definitely more original than others, mostly because this was simply a project for me to practice digital line work, so a few came out looking like a basic re-colorization of a character which already exists.”
Skinner also went for the challenge to create her own cartoon design style for a possible webcomic. She said that the most difficult stage was selecting the characters to include in the project. “I ended up having a list of close to 100 characters I wanted to do, but narrowed it down to 50 by drawing the choices randomly out of a hat.”
According to Skinner, the hardest characters to draw were Gorillaz’, Archer’s, and Tim Burton’s. “I am satisfied with how it turned out!” she continued. “This is one of the first things I’ve done that I’ve been proud enough about to show off to my people. Since this whole project took around a year for me to complete, with a brief hiatus from school, I definitely would say my skills got better the more I worked on it.”
So, a bunch of you knew I was trying to do the #StyleChallenge – so here is my attempt at designing myself in the style of 50 different cartoon shows!
It took a total of one year to complete, with a brief school semester hiatus! pic.twitter.com/YOQqhkvp8u
— Sam Skinner (@SammySkinns) May 13, 2018
