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Alvaro Montoro
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100 Days of CSS Illustrations (1-10)

As a personal fun project, I challenged myself to do 100 CSS drawings in 100 days. Today marks a milestone: the 10th day, so I decided to share the ones I've done so far (and to show off a little, I am really proud of some of them 😊)

Here are the 10 illustrations/drawings I did in the past 10 days. Click on the image to see the full illustration with the code, and click here to see a CodePen collection with all of the drawings plus some variations.

Day 1: Shark

This one was done from scratch as part of a CSS game I did last week, and it is the one that triggered the whole drawing project idea.

Shark cartoon

Day 2: Person thinking

This one, like some others from the list, is inspired/based on an illustration from Dribbble. In particular, this one is inspired by Faces by Olga Semklo.

Person thinking cartoon

Day 3: Hummingbird

Another one from Dribbble. This was inspired by Ivan Bobrov's hummingbirds on Dribbble (this and this). And as a challenge, I used only semicircles (although I cheated a by stretching them a little.)

Hummingbird cartoon

Day 4: Face

This cartoon is from scratch and I really like how it turned out, with the condescending look and smirk.

Man with mustache smiling

Day 5: Monster with balloon

Another one from scratch. This one was based on a series of cartoons I did for my daughter 5-6 years ago.

Red monster holding a balloon

Day 6: Ace Ventura caricature

And yet another from scratch. This one I started doodling without a clear goal, then the idea of making an Ace Ventura caricature popped up, but I wasn't able to get a good expression.

Ace Ventura caricature

Day 7: Minimalist Dog

Based on Coffee Dog by Ahsan Kahn on Dribbble. I added some ears, but I didn't like the result, so I hid them later.

Dog smiling

Day 8: Harry Potter

I did two versions of this cartoon from scratch. The one below, and another in which Harry is a bit slimmer as my daughter claimed it didn't really look like Harry Potter.

Harry Potter cartoon

Day 9: Cardinal

Based on Cardinal by Jord Riekwel on Dribbble. I later did a versions with colors trying to change it into a Blue Jay, but none of them are as cool as the original.

Alt Text

Day 10: Profile

I really like this one too... even when it doesn't do honor to the original in which it is based on: Swiss Beatz by Rogie (which is 1,000-times more expressive and nicer than mine).

Profile


And that's it for now. Hopefully, there will be 10 more in 10 days 😊

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Habdul Hazeez

This super-awesome!, I can't wait to read the code.

Hopefully, there will be 10 more in 10 days 😊

I hope you can, best of luck.

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Lai Xuancheng

OMG, this challenge idea is so good! And you're also so good at css

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Jane Tracy 👩🏽‍💻

Amazing CSS art. 😲💯
Very impressive.

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jassica

ALL UR WORK IS AMAZING

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Guin White

I had no idea this level of illustrative detail was possible with only HTML and CSS. Your talent with it is incredible! Very impressive 👍

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Davey

These are amazing !! You’ve got a real talent.

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Suzanne Aitchison

This is very cool - love your work! Looking forward to seeing more 😊

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Alvaro Montoro

Thanks! It was your challenge and the drawings that you share on Twitter the ones that inspired me to do something similar :)

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Suzanne Aitchison

That makes me so happy! ❤️

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Piyush Suthar

Awesome! 😍
I can't even make them in Illustrator 😅😂

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Alvaro Montoro

Thanks!

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Hameed Kareem

This is super awesome man

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Alvaro Montoro

Thanks!

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Hameed Kareem

What are the strategies you sticked to when first learning css?
I mean your learning techniques.

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Alvaro Montoro

It was more of a try-and-error and reading a lot of MDN documentation pages. Also, looking at what other people were doing and peeking at the code.

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KarthikNayak

How much time do you take to complete each css art?

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Alvaro Montoro

It depends on which one. Some take around 1-hour, some take a few hours. The Disney castle one took me longer because I hit a block (I did smaller ones in between)

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KarthikNayak

Really appreciate you css skills