Art by Bagiballru

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
My name is Bagiballru and I can be found at facebook by searching me: rurubonnie@yahoo.com.hk

What is the name of your drawing?
"Do you know me, my friends?"

What is it's story?
Introduce how expertise Inspector Cumulus to start his mission.

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Art by Kyle Harper

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
My name is Kyle and I drew this. You can find me on Facebook if you'd like.

What is the name of your drawing?
"What the deuce was that?!"

What is it's story?
It appears something OR SOMEONE has startled our investigator.......perhaps it's nothing....but......perhaps it is SOMETHING!!

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Art by Manuel Kilger

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
Manuel Kilger, and you can find me on www.schattenkino.de

What is the name of your drawing?
"Inspector Cumulus and the stolen rainbow"

What is it's story?
The one and only "Rainbow Crystal" was stolen from the museum. Inspector Cumulus follows its trace to an old mysterious art collector who lives in a hidden castle outside the village. Will he be successful and find the precious gem?

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Art by Billy Matthews

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
Billy Matthews @ www.billywilliam.net

What is the name of your drawing?
"The Paper Chase"

What is it's story?
The Inspector is called to a mysterious library to what appears in the beginning, a paper thin case, soon he realizes the clues lead to something much more novel.

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Drawing Cumulus by Mister Quiche

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
Mister Quiche drew this, you can find me hiding in Sweden and you can see more cumulus I have drawn along with other stuff here on Facebook.

What is the name of your drawing?
"Weekend Pipe"

What is it's story?
He always looks so angry and i felt bad for him so i popped a little extra happy clouds in his pipe and gave him the weekend off!!!

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What is the name of your drawing?
"on a calm day"

What is it's story?
inspector cumulus, like all cloud based detectives sometimes is only caught in a light breeze, during these times he quietly reflects, has a peaceful pipe and enjoys a nice brew. He may also be inclined to ork on his beard!!

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Drawing Cumulus by Zaldy Serrano

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
Zaldy Serrano @ http://zaldyserrano.blogspot.com / http://zaldyserrano.deviantart.com/

Direct link to Stratosphere Smackdown art and process here.

What is the name of your drawing?
"Stratosphere Smackdown"

What is it's story?
Worlds colide when London's finest: Inspector Cumulus, and Vizjhanti's Storm Song: Sinister Cirrus,  cross over for an epic showdown to decide who will rule the stratosphere.

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Drawing Cumulus by Edward Pun

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
Edward Pun @ http://edwardpun.blogspot.com/

What is the name of your drawing?
"At the crime scene"

What is it's story?
Inspector Cumulus is just got done talking with the police at the crime scene.  As he starts to walk away, he looks back and noticed a vital clue that could crack this case. 

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Drawing Cumulus by Strongvillage

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
I, Strongvillage, drew this. Folks can find me at http://utilicon.tumblr.com/

What is the name of your drawing?
"Inspector Sir Cumulus Worthington, III."

What is it's story?
Our private inspector is a dapper gentleman in high society, with good standing. Not only does he make time for a spot of tea + night at the opera + cotillions + and a pint at the local pubs, but he is ever on the move and always solves the dubious caper. Now that's spot on!

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Drawing Cumulus by Stuart Linfield

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
I'm Stuart Linfield freelance Illustrator. A selection of my work can be seen on my Flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuartart/ and my infrequently updated blog/webcomic here http://www.stulinfield.com/

What is the name of your drawing?
"Cumulus goes Cumulonimbus"

What is it's story?
Inspector Cumulus has just had the worst day of his life and someone's going to pay.

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Drawing Cumulus by Henry the Worst

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
Henry the Worst @ Henrytheworst.blogspot.com

What is the name of your drawing?
"Inspector Cumulus vs. The Shortest Case Ever. "

What is it's story?
A dead man. An almost empty container of pills. These two things add up to be the biggest case of Inspector Cumulus career.

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Drawing Cumulus by Erwin theMongar

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
Erwin theMongar

What is the name of your drawing?
"Cumulus Rainus"

What is it's story?
I wonder if the inspector had a hard time, feeling blue and need to be alone and get the ideas to describe it into a rainy cumulus.

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Drawing Cumulus by grow

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
grow (no website)

What is the name of your drawing?
"astral cumulus"

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Drawing Cumulus by Thomas D’Aoust

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
Artist : Thomas D’Aoust @ thomasdaoust@gmail.com

What is the name of your drawing?
"Death in the Communes"

What is it's story?
One day inspector Cumulus found the killer of the wife of a man in a commune so to thanx him he paint this.

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What is the name of your drawing?
"powerful Cumulus"

What is it's story?
One day inspector Cumulus found new power ‘’eye in the sky’’. When he fly he can watch and know were the criminal are.

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Art by El hombre bombilla

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
El hombre bombilla @ http://panpintado.tumblr.com

What is the name of your drawing?
"Cumulus in the mind"

What is it's story?
there's a girl in the air,
there's a mistery in that girl,
there's her air in my mind while I'm flying...

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Art by Jeffry Burhan

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
Jeffry Burhan aka pimp daddy toys
blog: www.pimpdaddytoys.blogspot.com

What is the name of your drawing?
"UNCOVER!"

What is it's story?
inspector cumulus is surrounded with smoke in his face which makes us curious what he really look like...even the murderer want to know what his face...so he use a fan to uncover what insp cumulus looks like behind his smoke shape head.. note:because I don't know what insp cumulus look like, so I use my imagination of what he look like..if you know what he look like behind that smoke shape head please let me know :)

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Art by Jamie Noguchi

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
I'm Jamie Noguchi and my work can be found at http://ypcomic.com and http://monstercutie.com.

What is the name of your drawing?
"Cumulus Raijin"

What is it's story?
Before he took up job as a detective, Cumulus served the heavens as the thunder god Raijin.  Over the eons, he gained more and more interest in the affairs of those below him.  One day, he left his cloud and thunder drums behind, put on a trench coat, and walked the streets as a detective.

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Art by Thinkitem

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
Adriean Koleric @ www.thinkitem.com

What is the name of your drawing?
"Dr.Cumulus"

What is it's story?
To serve and protect under an explosive shroud of mystery and intrigue. Collage (1950-Present) / Acrylic on Plywood (9"w x 12"h)

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Art by Joseph Bradvier

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
I'm Joseph Bradvier, and this is a digital manipulated image composite. You can find me in Facebook / SMYV / deviantart and blogger.

What is the name of your drawing?
"smoke man"

What is it's story?
how will Inspector Cumulus look in the real world? i think the appropiate scenario for such thing will be the early 20's and he will be more a private eye than a police inspector, with most of his cases being in the like of the supernatural

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Art by David Tan

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
You can say hi  @DavidTheKiller and if you love movies informations (although it's in Indonesian language), you can try visit www.filmoo.com

What is the name of your drawing?
Cheriff Cumulus (aka Young Cumulus)

What is it's story?
03. What I did in here is my vision on Cumulus before he become 'inspector' or I can say as a rookie (for me sheriff is 'rookier' than inspector lol), less experience, fatter, and still smoking cigarettes, but you can tell that he's always look cumulious!

In addition, and as alternative, I just can't help it to make his face using 'real' material, I just need to feel and know how it looks like. :)


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Art by Morgan Gleave

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
Morgan Gleave, and I can be found at www.morgangleave.co.uk or http://anywereonline.blogspot.com

What is the name of your drawing?
"Cumulus plays the blues..."

What is it's story?
An off duty Inspector Cumulus plays 'pipe saxophone' in the clouds above us...

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Art by Euralis Weekes

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
Euralis Weekes - you can find me at euralisweekes.com


What is the name of your drawing?
The Silver Lining


What is it's story?
He's a detective in a film noir movie. He's trying to solve the murder and get the girl but it all goes up in a puff of smoke. My BF has been playing The new Rockstar game L.A. Noire and listening to that while I doodled, well this happened!

I drew this more for fun then anything else. I really dug the character.


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Drawing Cumulus by Arturo Perez

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
Arturo a.k.a colorless drew it and you can find him at colorless.a@gmail.com

What is the name of your drawing?
The West Cloud Horror.

What is it's story?
March 1895. London. A month of strange happenings in the West Cloud. First there is the bizarre murder of theater critic Jonathan McNimbus. Then the lawsuit against the Cloudess of Queensberry for libel; the public is scandalized. Next, the ingenue at the Cloudvoy is discovered with her throat slashed. And a police surgeon disappears, taking two corpses with him.
Scloudtland Yard is mystified by what appear to be unrelated cases, but to Nimbus the matter is elementary: a maniac is on the loose. 

Inspired by the plot of: The West End Horror by N.Meyer.

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Drawing Cumulus by BRIZL

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?

BRiZL at brizl.blogspot.com/

What is the name of your drawing?
"It's A Wrap!"

What is it's story?
Inspector Cumulus just solved the case and gets a kiss from his client!

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What is the name of your drawing?
"The Case Of The Missing Teddies"

What is it's story?
The story is Inspector Cumulus about to take on the case that no one seem to care about! And it seems that he is about to find out how serious it will get! ;-)

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Drawing Cumulus by Andy Thomas

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
Drawn by me Andy Thomas @ abthomas1982.wordpress.com

What is the name of your drawing?
"Miami heat"

What is it's story?
The story is Dr cumulus has been taken from his own time and thrown by a time travelling accident into Miami in the 1980s and he's settled in surprisingly well to the life of being a rogue detective in the neon 80s driving fast cars and dating hot women.

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Drawing Cumulus by Alexandr Bud'kin

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
Alexandr Bud'kin (Russia) @ http://budkinalexandr.siteedit.us/home

What is the name of your drawing?
"Secret of a smoking pipe"
(acrilic paints on wood panel 25 x 31 см)

What is it's story?
"An unknown villain decided to play a trick on inspector by adding some mysterious substance into his smoking pipe. After that strange things started to happen to Cumulus. Disappearance of his pipe was the key event of this story...
After carrying out of a desperate search, when the impact of the substance was over, inspector found his loss right under his nose. Ever since he has been paying a lot of attention to the contents of his smoking pipe."

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Drawing Cumulus by Alfonso Huerta

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
My name is Alfonso and this is my mail-address: peraoducciones@yahoo.es

What is the name of your drawing?
"CUMULUS TYPO"

What is it's story?
I'm not gifted with drawing talents, but I love illustration, design and designer toys  ^__^

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Drawing Cumulus by Elmo

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?

My name is Elmo and you can find me here on FLICKR
www.flickr.com/photos/45622804@N03/

What is the name of your drawing?
"A puff of murder."

What is it's story?
I really like Jon and Felt Mistress and drew this for them and the competition.

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What is the name of your drawing?
"2 clouds are better than one"

What is it's story?
Cumulus can't always work on his own and often solves crime with the help of his girlfriend Nimbostratus.

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Drawing Cumulus by [rich]

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?

My name is [rich] and you can find me at: www.richpage.net / 
rubberrodeo.blogspot.com/ and of course
ume-toys.blogspot.com/

What is the name of your drawing?
"When the inspector calls"

What is it's story?
Jon's drawings are ace - so thought I'd pencil a tribute to Cumulus. I love the texture from pencils combined with digital - so that's what I went for... Hope you like him.

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What is the name of your drawing?
TIME FOR A MURDER.

What is it's story?
Jon's drawings are ace - so thought I'd pencil a tribute to Cumulus. I love the texture from pencils combined with digital - so that's what I went for... Hope you like him.

Took this photo after dressing up as the cloud based private eye - strange looks all round. 'INSPECTOR CUMULUS' - scribbled on paper and coloured in photoshop :-)

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Drawing Cumulus by JC Lamuño

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
My name is JC Lamuño and you can find some of my stuffs at http://jotace0247.deviantart.com/

What is the name of your drawing?
Bad hair day?!

What is it's story?
just trying to imagine how would he look like one of those days cause i guess he likes to look good all the time... and that will be all!

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Drawing Cumulus by IKazi

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
Ikazi @ ikazi.perso.sfr.fr

What is the name of your drawing?
smoking cumulus/color

What is it's story?
Yes, i smoke!

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What is the name of your drawing?

smog cumulus

What is it's story?

Smog and cumulus

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Art by Thunderpanda

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?

Thunderpanda, people won't find me anywhere.
but can contact me thru www.thunderpanda.com or twitter.com/_thunderpanda_

What is the name of your drawing?

Inspector Cumulus goes Cumulonimbus

What is it's story?

...when someone make him cumulon he will goes cumulonimbus.

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Art by QDOGG

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
I'm Wayne aka QDOGG!!
You can find me here - http:bazturdsons.blogspot.com

What is the name of your drawing?
"A Right Foggy Investigation!"

What is it's story?
Medium is ballpoint pen, colored pencil, and Sharpie.

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Art by Richard Lee

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
Richie Lee
web @ www.giganticpanda.co.uk
blog @ www.richillustrations.co.uk

What is the name of your drawing?
"Cumulus' Curious Conundrum"

What is it's story?
Cumulus has a very British charm, very Sherlock-Holmes-esque.
And when you think of great detectives, as badass as chases and the trading of fisticuffs are, when it comes to the real deal they spend a lot of time thinking, so I drew Cumulus standing there and smoking his pipe with plumes of smoke coming out as he stands there contemplating the case. Oh and no digital trickery here, it was done by hand with very fine pens and a load of patience.

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Art by MIMIC

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
Thats me, mimic, you can find me in a bus lane in UK... or www.flickr.com/mimicdesign.

What is the name of your drawing?
Its called "Cumulus goes Genus Ciruss"

What is it's story?
Cumulus cover stars on the Number One Global Detective Magazine "Inspectors Weekly" he's hit the big time boys, top cloud!

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Art by Rich Johnson

Who Drew This and Where Can people find you?
Rich Johnson @ http://www.richjohnson.co.uk/page13.htm

What is the name of your drawing?
Inspecteur Nuage - the French Connection

What is it's story?
"Inspecteur Nuage" = It actually means inspector Cloud, because apparently the French for Cumulus is 'cumulus'.

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Art by Jeremy Dale

WHO DREW: Jeremy Dale aka Valleydweller @ www.valleydweller.com


DRAWING TITLE: "Inspector Cumulus vs the Windy City"


THE THOUGHT BEHIND THE ART: "When I sat down to do a sketch of this guy, it occurred to me that he'd have a pretty hard time of it in a gale. If I had it to do again, or if I do another pass on this particular drawing, I'd like to squash his hat down even further toward his shoulders to better maintain the volume I took in stretching his head out so far back."

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Art by Sjors Trimbach

There’s something fishy about these chips…, originally uploaded by Sjors Trimbach.

WHO DREW: Sjors Trimbach from Enschede, the Netherlands @ www.sjorstrimbach.com

DRAWING TITLE: There’s something fishy about these chips…

STORY: I have no clue who the inspector is, but he seems English. And since I had never drawn chips, I had a go :D

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The Origin of Drawing Cumulus

[Above illo by Christian Nauck]
The notion to do an illustration contest featuring the fictional character "Inspector Cumulus", has it's seed planted first with seeing a variety of illustrations for the smoke-cloud-headed persona being posted on it's creator, Jonathan Edward's blog (for which I have reposted here).

They were interpreted by Jonathan's friends, with the initial aim to help promote the coming of his toy - produced and manufactured by Crazy Label. Neither was commissioned, it seems, and I thought "what a swell sense of camaraderie!" ~That, and I have always had a personal love for illustrations (an earlier illo-contest being the Combat-R-Zero Fan-art Contest in 2008 / <>Dedicated Blog) and the visual concept of a drawing interpreting a toy (or visa versa) is irresistible for me personally (Or in my warped lil corner of my mindscape, if I cannot own the toy, I could draw it instead lol)


[Above-left: Jason Bennion / Above-right: Joe List]

[Above-left: Warwick Johnson-Cadwell / Above-right: Stuart Linfield]
As a task-orientated competition, it is harder to get folks involved - than a "giveaway contest", as it requires folks actually "working" for a submission, rather than just click a "Like" or leave behind a sentence of words or their email address behind (which doesn't mean I don't like giveaway contests - I love them! lol). But to me, the results of seeing swell artworks, by far outweighs the need to get the blog-hits a'pumpin' (at least for me), and is worth the effort in the long run - to see a tangible product produced - be it a drawing a doodle a sketch a painting, or even a custom toy. But this is a specific drawing competition, with three top prizes to be had, and hopefully a series of imagery worthy of attention, whether you are a toy-lover or an appreciator of art or design.


[Above-left: Laurie Pink / Above-right: Dan Berry]
Time and effort (and perhaps material costs) spent in showcasing your skills and craft - versus the cost of producing a quantity of toys in a factory - is a no-brainer form of self-promo to me LOL

And as much as this blog is known primarily for "toys", it too includes visually stunning imagery - for both serve as "eye-candy" when seen online anyways, don't they?

I really hope to see what YOU have in store for us to see here! You have about a month to get it going LOL

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