Things that are satisying to draw a simple cartoon of

Saturn
An ice cream cone
Lattice-crust pie
Scissors

Rocketships
TIE fighters
Fire hydrants
hexagonal tessellation

president profiles on coins

A bottle of beer
An apple with a stem and one leaf
A rippling, waving flag
Swiss chesse

a circle

Most sports equipment

P-51 mustangs

A little triangle-shaped flag sticking out of a hole in a golf course

whenever I draw any of these things they end up looking like dicks

Most types of male hats

Snails

this thread is awesome

Dicks
Bats (the animal & a nice ash bat)
Wood paneling
Hamburgers

A sewing needle with thread through its eye
Swingsets
A steaming cup of tea
High-heeled shoes

pirate ships
spaceships

Wingtip shoes
Mushroom clouds
Regular mushrooms
A pencil that is writing something in cursive

A saguaro cactus
A maple leaf
A ring with a giant diamond on it
Bicycles

spindly bare trees (ex. wispy willows in the winter)

http://canvaspaint.org/0df05.png

pigs

A camera with a big lens
A ball of yarn

can't believe no one's said boobs yet

wood panelled station wagons

Picket fences
Spaghetti & meatballs

Snails

― could be a bad day for (Abbott), Thursday, July 15, 2010

Propeller beanies
Anvils
Horsie-shaped inflatable pool float rings
(This is the "stuff you only see in cartoons" post)

U.S. dollar bills
Martinis

bunny rabbit
giraffe

An ashtray containing a smoke-emitting cigarette

http://canvaspaint.org/b660.png

(sorry if pictures of the thing ruins the zen of text, but there is an excellent site: canvaspaint.org where you can draw/save online and I could not resist! but i will resist now)

No, I love it! I love it except my inner pedant wants to note the thing on the right is a beard; I'm really sorry.

stinklines coming from a trash can with the lid ajar with a fish skeleton peeking out.

re: beards are just mustaches that had babies all over the rest of the face!

I accept this disgusting explanation!

prank snake popping out of a nut can
pyramid w/ all-seeing eye
cuckoo clock
Homer Simpson
muted post horn
cloverleaf interchange
actual clover leaf
bong

steam train
bicycle
flower
butterfly
spider
shiny sphere

bearsharktopus/bearotaur

http://canvaspaint.org/b5d1.png

Dragons
Fish with bubbles coming out of their mouths
Tiny birds in the distance behind a house with smoke coming out of the chimney
Elaborate chemistry experiments
Tiny desert islands containing a single palm tree

upside-down faces

phospholipid bilayers

spermatazoa

palm trees
pyramids

Naked chicks
Fatty acid structure
Jumping frogs
J'accuse hand
Practice target with arrows sticking out of it

flags/banners
eyeballs
flowerpots

Dancing skeletons
Campfires

Lapels

non-existent DVD covers composed of one word that sums up the genre, and a picture of that word.

i used to like to draw certain baseball team logos where there's two letters superimposed on each other e.g. padres, dodgers, giants, cardinals, yankees/mets (the two NY variants), twins (the TC one), white sox to a lesser extent, and the angels A with its lil halo

band logos

Pacman eating prescription meds
Ms Pacman eating prescription meds (same as Pacman eating prescription meds but with a bow)

hamburgers

heshers

hotdogs
ugly dudes
computers
crotchets
quavers
dinks

eyeballs w/ a dagger in them

can't resist!
http://canvaspaint.org/bfa8.png

Turkey drumsticks
Bones
Skulls

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/2170/doodles.jpg

Turkey drumstick

bababooey

robots

I really love that sheep. The suggested curliness is really sucking me in!

why is disembodied head sad? is it the culture of drugs and turkey leg consumption she is surrounded by?

seahorse (a blobby S)
duck (modified seahorse)
any bird, really, esp partridge family style
glass of liquid
popping bubbles indicating drunkenness or confusion
xaime style girl face
squirrel
giraffe
elephant
snail
umbrella
goth girl with umbrella
frankenstein head
weapons, like sword, axe or knife
boots
burly dwarf
cartoons/big daddy style wheel-smoking dragster w monster driver (hand ideally reaching out the window to manipulate absurdly long shifter)
small head guy with giant black glasses
spaceship
saturn (hell yeah)
star
castle atop cliff
crescent moon
pyramid
desert at night w/ pyramid and crescent moon
cow skull
cactus (add to mysterious desert landscape if desired)
human skull (shit yeah)
devil head
burning cigarette
bottle of any sort
roses
vines
plants of almost any sort
naked girl (x1000)

plus a lifetime supply of bar napkins and i'm good

fuck, turkey drumstick OTM!

and hams. like classic style, with bone in and hatching on top.

fried egg
eyeball
atom bomb blast
disney type three-fingered hands
cats & dogs
butts
bats
things with holes through them
3D lettering that recedes to the horizon

what do you guys think of actualizing these in some standard dimensions as a kind of community clip art repository?

goth girl with umbrella

totally OTM

OTM all around actually

I can't draw cars very well though. I used to babysit a kid who's ask me to draw him pics of the Mach 5 (we all know that shit is Speed Racer's car). When they weren't good enough he'd punch me, so I got pretty good at drawing the Mach 5, but any other car, you're on your own.

this punching school of cartoon instruction feels like a john kricfalusi fantasy.

the only thing i doodle is hamburgrs

i doodle dandy yankees

because I'm a yankee dandy doodler~~

elves with pointy hats

Amy Winehouse

just remember to draw the bat-wing eyeliner

south park characters

abbott your story about the mach five is beatufiul and reminds me of a speed racer tijuana bible i once saw...

records (lps, 45s)
pyramid/eye
curled up cat

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qsxsproRN-w/Sb7_zRhyIdI/AAAAAAAAASU/stAewd8svqQ/s320/the_s_symbol

black flag bars

pentagrams

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qsxsproRN-w/Sb7_zRhyIdI/AAAAAAAAASU/stAewd8svqQ/s320/the_s_symbol

Everyone remembers the day they figured that shit our right? Two sets of three vertical bars, that's where to start. This is probably the closest thing we have to a coming of age ritual. God bless us all.

the alchemy of pointy desk-carving s is the only reason i stuck it out through all of elementary school

hearts and willies

definitely mushrooms and toadstools

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November is NaNoSatisfyingCartoonMo dammit.

That is beautiful!

Is that a Wiimote as sports equipment?

if golf is a sport, then wiimote is a sport.

i will finish all the entries in this thread before the rest of youse finish your novels dammit!
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I keep meaning to print out a list of things from this thread & doodle them during this absolutely inane 2.5 hour evening class I have on Tuesday. I run out of doodling ideas about halfway through.

i will totally join this NaNoSatisfyingCartoonMo party when i get some free moments. maybe not in mspaint, but respect to nunez for sticking with it.

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/566/sat3348.gif

i apologize for the dry spaghetti.

I like that pig, he looks like he's conducting an evil orchestra!

love the pig

wondering if you've ever actually seen boobs tho

NaNoSatisfyingCartoonMo

needs a new thread!
We should just pick 16 or so and have everyone doodle, scan and post!

I can't draw at all but it sounds like fun. :)

NaDooDraMo?

i was at the video store earlier tonight lookin through the foreign aisle and saw a movie called HOW TO DRAW A BUNNY and thought of this thread (but picked up a picture called BOLIVIA instead just for your informations)

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/11/sat4956.gif
you may notice i cheaped out on the cuckoo clock by setting the clock 5 minutes before noon.

this is the grid BTW.
if y'all want to put it in the same format, I'm sure we can take the finished results and make some kind of grand animated gif flipbook out of it.
http://img813.imageshack.us/img813/8121/grid.gif

I always end up drawing eyes when I'm doodling. Lots and lots of eyes.

http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/9167/grid2.gif

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/9508/grid3.gif

I am a very accomplished drawer of eyes at this point. If I forced myself to draw other things while doodling in the margins of my class notes I could take over the world.

Whoa that is a cool ion imbalance and some great foreshortening, Philip!

I am going to post a few I did last night, just you wait a minute.

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/8985/doodles1.jpg

http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/5842/img1402.jpg
^start of goth girl holding umbrella, got aborted 1/2way through

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/8421/doodle2t.jpg
^combined a couple here, hope you like naked chicks + Amy Winehouse

Bonus: I was trying to draw Romo cat a few weeks ago.

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/852/doodles4.jpg

those are fantastic! please release to public domain for good of comicdom.

damn! nice work abbbs! catboard otm. plus amy winehouse, plus skull thinkin baout, plus plus everything! exclamation point. need to scan mine...

amy looks like a combo of dame darcy and s. clay wilson, somehow. not in a rip-off-y way, just cool like that.

i mean if you replaced every xkcd character with flowerpot catboard and naked winehouse that alone would improve that comic about a million percent. not even joking.

not even joking.

terrible:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/mutual.png

FANTASTICO:
http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/682/mutual.png

this makes me wanna get back to my "Draw 100 Monsters" project.
maybe i should scan in some monsters?

Abbott your drawings remind me of Earthbound enemies

"The Flowerpot Catboard became tame!"

ahahaha thanks, that's awesome.

garfield
odie

A ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch.

Not trying to subvert this very very neat thread, but to add to it:
100 Creatures: A cartoon/project/drawalong project

omg, that amy wino

abbott do you dig sophie crumb? cuz a lot of yer stuff looks like her work.

I have never seen any of Sophie Crumb's stuff. Maybe I should change that, eh? tbh I am pretty poor and I just kind of read whatever comics/graphic novels the library gets in.

Oh my shit I just checked out her blog and that gal is about 1000x better than I am. I am flattered!

yer winehouse looks a lot like her stuff.
this is a solid, lengthy and reasonably priced appraisal of her work:
http://www.amazon.com/Sophie-Crumb-Evolution-Crazy-Artist/dp/0393079961/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1289423206&sr=8-1
i had some conversations with her via email when i first moved into nyc; she was very friendly and surprised anyone was curious about her work at all.

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just a few more and we'll be caught up to the end of the thread!
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Trying to duplicate Abbott's original list upthread, to my own very special effect. I misjudged the space, so the pie is terribly close to the scissors.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/IMG_2193.jpg?t=1289426854

wow, sophie crumb's blog is amazing. jealous/inspired

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/1174/photozqp.jpg

Kinda started hurrying on the second half.

is that Laika defecting to team USA in the rocket there?

Alan Shepard forgot to take his goggles off.

As long as you're not a communist.

he is staring longingly at that fire hydrant...

The fire hydrant that looks like a dismembered robot.

Here are a few more:

You know how hard it is to draw a trash receptacle that doesn't look a robot or martian in disguise?

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/cans.jpg

I had a caption for this, but can't remember it.

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/coffeetable.jpg

I've been drawing Seymour Skinner since before there was a Seymour Skinner, fwiw.

Finally, I had this idea for a strip that revolved around a sports talk radio station. One of my characters was going to be based on Houston Nutt:

http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt203/pplains/nutty.jpg

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/193/grid6.gif

i think that is it. every suggestion on this thread has now been drawn by somebody.
national draw a satisfying cartoon month is a success!

that sports radio dogs is a good premise BTW -- actualize it!

Houston Mutt?

Austin Mutt. I hadn't even thought of what his name could be.

I tried out the series for awhile, but then put it down. I'll go though phases of drawing stuff like this once a year or so, and then… I'll lose it somehow.

One year, February 29, 2000, I got in this huge fight with a Kinko's worker and didn't draw for another five years.

I sound really flighty when I type this out, but I swear I've been doing other things too!

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http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3282/3054004694_7cc6bf60a6.jpg

what happened to the storyline in the sketch? mutt seems to be making a high-power sports-agent type deal, then hand-holding a player.

Wasn't much of a storyline as much as it was the different shades of crab-pinching and elastic facial expressions he could do.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3156/2964485049_6be51a7d37.jpg

that's an excellent "i'm in broadcasting" jacket you drew BTW.

Thank you. Those wardrobes are better heard than seen.