There’s a lot of ways to win at life and we can safely say that Phil Heckels, a dad from Worthing in England, has taken the cake when it comes to art. The artist goes by the name Hercule Van Wolfwinkle and has raised a whopping 13.6k pounds (nearly 18k dollars) for a homeless charity, Turning Tides, by drawing ‘crappy’ portraits of people’s pets.
Hercule, 38, doesn’t hide the fact that he isn’t an artist and had never really drawn in his life before. However, one day, he was making some ‘thank you’ cards with his 6-year-old when he drew a couple of doodles and uploaded them on Facebook. His friends thought the portraits were brilliant and asked Hercule to draw their pets. And that’s when the ball started rolling.
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Scroll down, upvote your fave ‘lousy’ pet drawings, and let us know which portraits you loved the most. If you want to help support Hercule’s local charity, consider making a donation. And when you’re done enjoying this list, check out Hercule’s original post on Bored Panda right here.
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At first, Hercule did the illustrations for free and shared them on social media alongside hilarious fake reviews. But after getting more and more attention, he decided to put his artistic ‘talents’ to even better use.
“After a couple of shares, I started getting requests from people I didn’t know asking for portraits. That’s when I set up the Facebook page Pet Portraits By Hercule and the JustGiving page which is raising money for my local homelessness charity, Turning Tides. I was having fun drawing the pictures, people seemed to enjoy laughing at them, and if we could make a bit of money for a brilliant cause in the process—great!”
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Now, more than 10.6k people follow Hercule’s Facebook page and he’s doing his best to keep up with the demand for ‘rubbish’ pet pics. He has been absolutely flooded with requests. And it’s no wonder. His art makes you smile in a time when there isn’t much to smile about.
The rate at which the artist works is nothing short of jaw-dropping. He churns out around 150 drawings a week and has a backlog of 600 requests, so now anyone making a donation isn’t entitled to getting a drawing of their pet, but they might get lucky. We have a sneaking suspicion that Hercule will end up as a professional artist very quickly, considering how much he’s drawing.
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