Thread by @tommgran

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:

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2.

3.

4. don't worry I'm sure they can reattach all those limbs with science

5.

6. delicious 🍽️

7. uh-oh

8. 🏏

9.

10. 🤙🤙🤙

11.

12. it's one of those pipes. y'know.

13.

14. these people are just fighting in mid-air don't worry about it

15.

16. + free bonus update: I gave that one guy a hat

17.

18. most violent injury/death so far goes to this guy

19.

20.

21. 💀

22.

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.

24. GUYS I told you ghosts were no good!

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26.

27.

28.

29.

30.

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.

32. happy february everybody

33.

34.

35.

36. this picture is now officially Too Large For Twitter™

37. making this image wider to fool Twitter's dumb auto-cropping system

38. 💎

39.

40. 🇺🇸

41. I think pipes are gonna be a recurring theme

42.

43.

44. ✂️

45.

46.

47.

48. observer + cat 👀

49.

50. half way to a hundred my bros

51. 🐙

52. wings

53. crabman

54. ok guys it's getting seriously hard to not repeat ideas and poses now!!

55. 🎳

56.

57.

58. 🤡🤜

59. snake head

60. two months down my dudes

(why is there no skateboard emoji???)

61. RIP Hal

62. hey this one's a little bit late sorry guys it won't happen again!!

63. what the fuck Richard??

64. Hey this is getting so big now you can barely see the characters. Anyone got any ideas for what I should do to make this more practical to look at? Like should I host the full-sized image somewhere and then just post close-ups of the updated sections on Twitter?

65. Thanks everyone for your feedback on how to post updates. Pretty much everyone said just keep doing it the way I have but let's see what you all think now that the whole thing is about to get EXPONENTIALLY LARGER:

66. I promised dinosaurs and I intend to deliver dinosaurs

67. 🔫🦖

68.

69. (nice)

70. 🤵‍♀️🐵🐵

71. pithecophobia

72. what's up guys I'm back to having to find excuses for every character to be floating in mid-air

73. 🌟

74.

75. not sure why it took me this long to include a dog

76. 🧙‍♂️💼

77. a lot of people with wands coming up

78. 🐬

P.S. Can anyone recommend somewhere I can host this giant image in hi-res? Tumblr, cargo etc. all compress it to the point where it's not much better than just looking at it on Twitter.

here's a nice hi-res version so you can get a good look at all the characters/all the shoddy line work that looks acceptable at 25% full-size
i.imgur.com/uoKGAlH.jpg

you can also get a good look at my fav character so far: this guy's leg that got turned into a dolphin

79. big hand

80. best use of a wand so far imho

81. bird chaos

82. Jet Cop 👮‍♂️

83.

84. confiscated

85. portals

86. 🏃‍♂️⬅️🐦

87. Birdman (2014)

88. sorry everybody I drew myself into a corner with the bird men I'll go back to them in a bit

89.

90. happy end of March please enjoy this big reveal

full size version here: i.imgur.com/Wr9AeK6.jpg

91. very cool April Fools prank

92. PRANKED 🎳

93.

94. 🤙🤙🤙

95. April is turning into an extreme sports month

96. 📀

97. cool dude comin through

98. guys these kids are o υ т o ғ c o n т r o l
*DJ airhorn*

99. ☠️

100. happy 100th drawing everybody here's a pegasus unicorn shooting a laser 🦄

101. 🤳

102.

103.

104. rocket skates

105. 🌭

106. please do not skate near unicorn beams guys I'm serious this is a PSA

107. very insensitive

108. 🗡️🗡️🗡️

109. fun game

110. stump friends

111. 🦕🤚

112.

113. 🏹

114. I told you I'd get back to these guys

115. John's gonna be so mad

116. "Hey Sean, didja see the stuff John's been keepin' in his box here?"

117. that's Sean I guess

118. beginner

119. ʎʇɹɐd ʎɹǝɥɔɹɐ

120. happy end of April everyone. May is going to be exclusively arrows hope you enjoy it.

121. bird man joining the gang

122. arrow on a string

123. help I can't stop drawing birds

124. absolute unit

125. The Perfect Cast

126. this isn't supposed to be Dexter that's just the only way I know how to draw scientists

127. 🤔

128.

129. someone asked for a robot like 3 months ago so here you go

130. stealin that power ⚡️

131. 👩‍🔬

132. big laser

133. stray arrow

134. sorry for the 2 day break, here's a triple post to make up for it

135. I guess this is some kind of time laser??

136. Has Science Gone Too Far?

137. gettin sucked

138. tube time

139. this dog is probably named Brody or Cody or something

140. "this is not very scientific."

141.

142. 💀✋

143. jerk in a tube

144. gosh

145. hope you guys aren't bored of scientists flying through tubes yet

146. find out what this guy is mad about in 10-14 days time

147. sorry, I opted for safe tube exit instead of a bear or a giant mincer but I'll try n get some of those in here soon!

148. realised half-way through drawing this that I don't know how welding works

149. ⚡️⚠️

150. this is going somewhere soon I promise

151. who let this guy in here?!

152. this one goes out to whoever requested a cloning machine like 3 months ago

153. Attack of the Clones (2002)

154. FYI I've officially hit the Twitter image size limit (20,000 pixels in width) so the picture is now going to slowly start shrinking. stay tuned.

155. happy national workplace accident awareness week

156. idk where he got that mirror

157. the goop is loose

158. get gooped on 💧

159. clones are dicks

160.

161. Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)

162. hey guys I'm on holiday next week and I have to draw 7 extra pictures this week so I can upload them while I'm away from my graphics tablet and I'm pretty stressed out about it 😎

163. the goop continues to be loose

164. watch out for that goop bro

165. she's been eating her vegetables and drinking her muscle growth enhancement serums 🧪

166. clone overboard

167. piggy backin’

168. I’m the Juggernaut bitch

169. (nice)

170. if you can’t beat em, beat up their nerd friend and take his super strength serum and drink it and then beat em

171. reachin

172. please catch me bröther

173. over it

174. not over it

175. this one goes out to that one guy who keeps asking for a meat grinder

176. clone nuggets

177. how's your head?

178. so what I'm allowed to draw hundreds of human characters but I'm only allowed to draw one unicorn?? unicorns aren't even that rare get off my back!

179.

180.

181. it's a magic history book I guess

182. hey everybody today is pretty much the half way point for the year so I'm half way done with this project so here's a mermaid to celebrate (she came out of that magic book in case u were wondering)

183. starting a fresh lil scene for July

184. 🥪

185. 🛸

186. got 'im

187. look out, it's using ａｌｉｅｎ ｔｅｃｈｎｏｌｏｇｙ

188. hey guys remember this meme

189. aliens are dicks

190. kiai!

191. look out she's using ｈｕｍａｎ ｔｅｃｈｎｏｌｏｇｙ

192. in real life these alien laser chains would be invisible to the naked eye but I decided to draw them in for clarity

193. aliens are dicks: part 2

194. concerned alien emoji

195. gotta break out

196. close encounters of the hurt kind

197. the bird men are back (sorry)

198. 🍗

199. this will make more sense tomorrow

200. hundreds = unicorns

201. wizards and unicorns: together at last

202.

203. 🤖

204. winded

205. ❄️

206. hammer and magic helmet

207. how many retweets for our troops?? 🇺🇸

208. no respect

209. I dunno where they're getting these jet boots

210. gadzooks I've been swindled

211. brother I told you we should have left our comically large sacks of money at ground level

212.

213. I mean to be fair the boots were overpriced

214. he forgot to put on the safety catch

215. boots on the loose 👢👢👢

216. this was inevitable

217. boots on the loose part II

218. chopper hat

219. hey lady I gotta deliver this within an hour!

220. copter hat is kind of just being a dick tbh

221.

222. wear your seatbelt kids

223. keep your eyes on the road kids

224. I dunno where these floating platforms are coming from but I'll figure it out soon I promise

225. hey I'm climbin here!

226. ⚔️

227. ⚔️⚔️⚔️

228. keep away from that sky door🚪

229. over sideways and under

230.

231. comin back for one more alien

232. sir do you have any idea how unidentifiably you were flying

233. hey remember when there was a Woman In Black for 5 seconds at the end of the first movie?

234. zapped

235. 10 bucks to whoever can guess what she's riding

236. 🤠

237. cool rider 1

238. cool rider 2

239. the most important member of the Cool Rider Family

240. "Ya look gorgeous honey! That one's a keepah!"

241. I guess August is the month I just draw loads of movie references because I'm 99% out of original ideas

242. ✊

243. front row

244. Happy September everybody and congrats to @big_blue_house_69 for correctly guessing that everyone was riding Falkor's cool friend, Ryan. Please DM me with info on where to send your €10 prize money.

245. whoops I left room for a bunch more dragon riders (this one is also a dragon himself)

246. "I upgraded to business class for this!?"

247.

248. science

249. this demon's name is Connor

250. this section of the pic is about to get pretty biblical guys 🔖🙏👼

251/252. 🤝

253. Charmeine Charmeine she's our gal, if she doth not do it no one shalt

254. 👿

255. this arm wrestle party was a pretty bad idea

256. get melted bro

257. no Snakes on a Plane jokes please

258. 🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍

259. no, no this is not at all up to standard...

260. the original Boss Baby 💘

261 & 262. I don't actually know how I would have done this if I hadn't done a double update

263. not today Cupid

264. uh-oh

265. 💥🕳️🧨

266. this guy's just out here to see some cool colours

267. PSA: please check your giant fireworks for firework gnomes before taking them out in public

268. 100% Original Giant Robot Character™

269. robot fight part 2

270. 🧙‍♀️

271. they didn't cover this in magician school

272. surprise! 🎩

273. is this too many wizards??

274. happy October and welcome to the new underground section of the drawing

(also I guess these Snape-looking wizards are twins or something?)

275. nothin but cone

276. 🦆

277. honestly that wizard is just a dick

278. uh-oh

279. ⛏️

280. gnomes v skeletons: the eternal battle

281. this is an infamous skeleton fight move 🦴

282. this is one of the less well-known skeleton moves 🦴🦴🦴

283. he died the way he lived

284. bone 2 face

285. this guy really loves The Sims

286. is this a sword I see betwixt mine ribs?

287. this sword is pretty long

288. who gave this skeleton a gun??

289. he died the way he lived

290. bone head

291. I guess there's mine carts down here

292. just another day down the mine 👷‍♀️

293. ⬅️⬅️

294. gotta keep thinking of skeleton stuff to prolong the spooky theme until halloween

295. I'm diggin' here!

296. where skeletons come from

297. treasure

298. very important plans

299. ❌

300. only 65 to go

301. 🤜

302. 💥 right in the kisser

303. hope you guys are ready for more tunnels

304. lookit, it's frickin bats.

305. grrr

306. the infamous upside-down mid-air choke slam

307. please don't ask me how this drill works

308. I've done the research and can confirm that this is what happens when you impale someone with a giant hand drill

309. remember remember 🧨

310. reptilians pulling the strings as usual 🦎

311. lizard magic

312. where skeletons come from pt. 2

313. adapting to life without skin

314. where skeletons come from pt. 3 (they use a ladder)

315. can't wait to climb that bone ladder

316. where skeletons' axes come from

317. where skeletons' axes come from pt. 2 (lizard man weapons merchant)

318. 🗡️

319. pretty sharp sword

320. android

321. sometimes when someone's dangling you upside-down you've just gotta get mad and throw a spiky ball on a chain

322. living underground is pretty rough

323. 👨‍🦲
👨‍🦲

324. blammo

325. take that, non-specific foppish aristocrat

326. rich people

327. I mean honestly they shouldn’t have held their evil secret society meeting next to a pile of TNT if they didn’t want this to happen

328. run

329. please stay tuned to find out why this evil woman is turning into stone

330. 👑🗿

331. get snekt

332. smashed

333. the only sure fire way to shoot Medusa

334. that was a close one

335. happy december (she was drinking egg nog)

336. I haven't drawn an ankylosaurus for a while but it was my fav dinosaur when I was a kid so here you go

337. this is a cool underground sport I guess

338. that's one for the photo album

339. #2 fan

340. she's just here for the free food

341. fan rivalry

342. (they're brothers)

343. 🥚🥚🥚

344. the book didn't prepare him for this

345. 🐣

346. one of those octopus eggs

347. 🐢🥚🤕

348. hoof egg

349. ⚠️ please take special care when standing near the hoof egg ⚠️

350. reaching into the egg hole

351. egg thieves

352. I'm counting these 4 rabbits as one person so I hope that's ok with everyone

353. "sir please do not touch our eggs" 🐇

354. no one said anything about rabbits

355. how did one of these bird guys get inside an egg in an underground cavern when it's clearly been established that they are the result of real birds flying through some kind of magic ring in the sky? tune in next time to find out...

356. 🍳

357. Hope you all enjoyed this underground tunnel section. I expected it to last a little bit longer and now I have no idea what I'm gonna do for the last 9 days ✌️

358. jumpin off that dinosaur's head and into the last week of the year 📅

merry Christmas here’s a woman with a flamethrower getting stabbed in the face ☃️

360. Hector roasting on an open fire (his name is Hector)

361. ⭐️

362. don’t play with portals kids

363. happy 29th of December (the second spookiest day of the year)

364. "hey, that guy stole my idea!"

365. That's all, Folks!

Thanks to everyone who's supported me and this big dumb project all year. I really didn't expect it to get as much attention as it has so that really helped me to get through it! You can see a big hi-res version here:
hungry-hypatia-22bc62.netlify.com/2018-12-31/
(thanks again to @headonkeyboard)

We're looking into getting prints etc. ready for sale so will be posting updates about that in January!