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Tom Gran is an artist and animator, who works as part of a team called the Spinkick Bros. Their work often seems to include detailed images of wild characters, set in complicated scenes. You can get a sense of what some of the finished products looks like on their Tumblr page.
But that's not enough! Gran decided to also set himself a creative challenge for 2018. The challenge was to draw a new character every day as part of a giant fight scene. Why? Just to keep the juice flowing. You only live one 2018, make it count for something.
Hey so through 2018 I'm gonna do a drawing challenge where every day I add another character to a giant fight scene until it gets so giant I probably won't even be able to upload it to Twitter anymore. Here goes: pic.twitter.com/hSd8kyOii0
Gran has been uploading his drawing to Twitter for his users to enjoy every day, and halfway through March, it's already become an enormous, detailed, funny and intriguing universe. A universe where everyone is fighting all the time. Scrolling through the drawing's progression is hypnotizing; it's almost like you're seeing these characters come to life.
It's not clear how much, if any planning goes into the characters. It seems like they all naturally interconnect with one another, but that could be Gran's skill at developing his ideas on the fly:
He has changed the rules of the challenge a little bit, but only so he can add even more characters, which is insane:
23. In case anyone's wondering why I'm adding more than one character a day right now: ghosts don't count because they're dead and not real people. Also they're no-good and don't deserve their own day. Sorry ghost fans. pic.twitter.com/xtmLJItksw
31. Oh lord January is only just over and I already feel like I've been doing this for six years. Thanks for all the support everybody. Stay tuned to watch me go totally insane. pic.twitter.com/9LDHNrl536
Wow, who knew, they're on some sort of vehicle! You can follow Gran's project on Twitter until his drawing is too big to be contained, and see where else this epic fight will go. By the end of the year, it might take over his entire house.
