Our calendar project is coming to an end. We have amazing invited artists on board and a slew of prior showcase winners. We're down to the wire, in the final stretch, wrapping it up... you get the idea. So if I can make a humble suggestion, you know, friend to friend: hurry the heck up! Get involved by following three simple steps:
(A) Doodle up the month of October 2012 (B) Submit your artwork (C) Pat yourself on the back and high five friends.

Seeing the calendar come together is so much fun, it feels wrong. Muahaha… I love it when a plan comes together!

P.S. For those of you new to DA, welcome! You can learn more about the calendar and how to participate here.

One of my favorite things on DA is when we open the doors of our blog to a guest contributor. After a long break from featuring any outside writers, we finally get to welcome one for the month of June.

Many of you might remember him from an entry we posted back in February, titled Heavy Color, where we showed off his colorful ink strokes and credited him by the name of Mario Kolaric. Well, it turns out on the street he's known as Sretan Bor. He's from Zagreb, Croatia and promises to bring some fresh and exclusive content to the pages of Doodlers Anonymous this month.

You can get reacquainted with some of his work below and follow him on flickr, but most importantly welcome him to the site, as his first post will go up this week. Yay for June!

With so much deliciousness, 99 to be exact, how could we crown just one winner? The comments reflect how difficult it was for our community to select one artwork from a sea of talent. Well, thank goodness for Blik who worked with us to up the ante. There will be three winners-- the submission with the most votes, as well as two Editor's picks. Besides having their designs produced in limited-edition runs, all three winners will receive their own decal as well as a $75 Blik gift certificate and a Blik tee. I just love a happy ending!

Congrats to Harikrishnan Panicker (aka thumbdemon), Michelle Lasalvia (aka Pirichi), and Camila León (aka camiki) whose wall decals will be sold on Blik and DA in Mid-April.

And to the rest of you, there are no words to describe how happy we are with the creativity that was brought to this challenge. We thank you for every effort and submission on this showcase, and hope you continue to join us in many more fun and amazing drawing exercises this year.

Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall…. all you have to do is draw!

Oh Father Time, how you toy with us. And while we usually mark the passage of time with X’s on little numbered squares below stock images of kittens or mechanic-shop ads… next year will be different.

Next year we refuse to allow precious time to be recorded on kitch glossy images—we’re taking matters into our own hands and we’re recruiting you!

Finally, after much anticipation, we’re releasing another home-grown Doodlers Anonymous product. And it’s a good one. DA is creating its own 2012 Calendar and giving our members a chance to contribute!

Calendar artwork will be split between invited artists and showcase winners. The call for submissions is now open for the month of October, check out the guidelines for the fine print.

Happy drawing and good luck!

Here are some recent findings of Doodlers Anonymous out in the wild…

The winter issue of Anorak Magazine has been published. It features tons of colorful and playful illustrations around the theme of books, and best of all, there's a spread (see above) highlighting some of the wonderful submissions* to the Doodlers Anonymous Balloon Showcase. Go on and get yourself a copy »



Also noteworthy is this sweet review of our website, written and drawn by Emmi Ojala for SUPERSWEET Magazine. So many good quotes in there…

"On the DA website, creativity gets contagious and you’ll be dying to draw before your mouse has said “click” (or if not, be happy for having one addiction less)." -- The Cure To Those Suffering For Art

Thanks to all of you for the love and support. Doodle on…

* Print Correction: In the Anorak Magazine spread there's a submission that was incorrectly credited. The doodled balloon of an Owl Ornament was drawn by Cheryl Smith. Hoot, hoot, sorry for the misprint.

My first experience of Tom Hovey was an interesting one, and that is exactly how I would describe his work, too. Our first few conversations included topics like John Prescott as a father figure, locking artists inside a cupboard, and how he thought I was a man. He is a self-proclaimed ink addict and describes his work as "beautifully, ugly people." We are excited to have him as our new guest contributor for the next month.

Help us welcome the often inappropriate and highly talented Tom Hovey. Get to know him better, in his own words.

Oh oh ooooh! How thrilled are we?

Here, I'll answer that. We are exceedingly excited, and justifiably so. We have a new guest contributor, a wonderfully talented and colorful one at that.

She's a London based illustrator and graphic designer. She loves drawing and paper cutting, she daydreams a lot and drinks tons of pink milk. She has two cats, Flash and Kitty, and they are her best friends around the workspace. She is tiny red (literally) but you might also know her as Thereza Rowe.

If you want to reacquaint yourself with Thereza's work, you can visit her portfolio, her blog, or her flickr.

Now let's throw a pen-and-paper party and give Thereza the welcome she deserves. Here's looking forward to it getting messy.