Hello, my fellow creatives!
What is happening on Movies Meet Their Match today is I'm departing from my usual content of words and instead sharing how I've been swallowed by the multiverse of fan art.
It all started with challenging myself to do Inktober in 2025 and after that...I just kept drawing? And my subjects continued to be from movies and TV shows, so I thought I'd see what you guys think! I've drawn a lot of bad drawings, but today I'm showing the best from the last four months.
I'm not trained as an artist in anyway, this is just a huge hobby for me and posting them here gives me a chance to analyze what I did right and wrong and how I can grow in the future. If there's something I'm even more under qualified for being than an artist, it's a photographer, so please excuse my poor attempts at photos. I edited the pictures to the best of my ability and discovered that it's much more complicated than taking photos of ink drawings to try to keep all of the shading visible.
These are in mostly chronological order so my progression can be shown, and there aren't spoilers as all of these shots are out of context. I hope you enjoy!
Robin Hood (2006-2009 BBC series)
It all started with me rewatching Robin Hood in November. You see, because this is my...9th rewatch? I've lost count. Because it's a little obsessive I only allowed myself to watch if I drew something from every episode. I've done 12 episodes, but here are some of my favorites.
(I can't show my drawings of Roy and Will because the eyes were off enough that it made the whole thing look wrong, and then my drawing of Djaq got smudgy. One of Little John was pretty fun, but it's my multiple drawings of Marian that show who's my favorite character).
The one in which I had a mental crisis about how to draw an arrow. I had to redo Marian's eyes so. many. times. but it was worth it because everything finally clicked into place. Robin looks a little like an old man...
Usually I'm trying to go for as realistic as possible, but this was fun to take a more cartoon-character approach for Much.
It was sooooooo satisfying to get Guy's smirk. I had to improvise with the arms a bit because they weren't included in my reference photo but I think they turned out okay despite my multitude of shading techniques.
Let It Snow (2019)
This is what launched me into doing characters from whatever I most recently watched; my sister had recently shown me Let It Snow, and while I didn't love it, I thought the Duke was adorable so I decided to draw her. The drawing looks more like me than Angie, but for a quick sketch it makes me happy.
The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
I did quite a few drawings with the bubble text, haha. Christopher Plummer is very photogenic and therefore...drawing-genic? Draw-able? I should also draw him when he's younger, a la The Sound of Music.
Wednesday (2022- )
I was coming down off the high from season 2 (was? I still am) and that got channelled into my drawings. If sharing my drawings turns into a regular blog series, expect to see many more from this show!
I started rewatching with my sister and we paused right on this scene when she left for a moment so I started drawing while I waited. As you do. Again, it has more of a cartoon/animated approach and I like how it turned out, even with the accentuated shadows.
The jacket was oodles of fun to do. I've found I love pencil drawings because my favorite part is smearing things.
True Beauty (2020)
Every once in a while I chicken out of drawing people's faces, especially if there are so many of them, but outlines are just as much fun to do. This is a reminder that I should do more from k-dramas...
The Sandlot (1993)
I couldn't get the baseball cap right, but I'm really happy with everything else. Benny has such intense looks when he's concentrating and I imagine I look about the same when I'm drawing.
K-Pop Demon Hunters (2025)
Guess who watched the animated phenomenon and is OBSESSED. There's a little color in this one because I was playing around with my colored pencils to make a Honmoon effect, but it didn't turn out in the photo. I usually don't like drawing animated characters because I compare it too much to how it "should" look, but this one was a BLAST.
Meine teuflisch gute Freundin [How to Be Really Bad] (2018)
I drew not one, but TWO drawings from this movie. And both of them are of Lilith because I love her and her hair. While the other one is technically a better drawing, it doesn't look like her? Maybe it doesn't have her devilish attitude.
Only after I did all the editing of the photo did I realize the weird shadow in the corner, so please ignore it and "pay no attention to that man behind the curtain."
Sense & Sensibility (1995)
In which I learned that regency bonnets are delightful to draw.
For the majority of the time I was drawing this, it didn't look like Marianne and it was annoying me. Then I erased one line around her eye and like magic everything worked out. An eraser is just as important as a pencil!
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Hence my opening gif. I don't even like this movie, but Michelle Yeo is gorgeous so I wanted to draw her. I'm not quite satisfied with how I captured her, but I liked how I started shifting away from my reference photo by adding my own swirls, mirroring the crazy things that can happen in this film.
Merlin (2008-2012)
To finish out this time period, the last drawings are from my rewatch of Merlin. These are from season 4, and I did one of Arthur which was pretty cool with the exception of his eyes. Eyes can make or break an entire drawing. So I think I'm going to redo it a bit and maybe post it another time.
There's a weird tilt to his head which I didn't catch until I wrote the words, otherwise I would've maybe fixed it. The opening lines fit perfectly and that was really satisfying because I didn't plan it out that way at all, I was just inspired by "on the shoulders" line.
These two are barely in the show but are some of my favorite characters. I used two different reference photos to put them together and only halfway through doing Tristan (after Isolde was already complete) did I realize that the shadows for the two pictures were from different angles. I think I sort of made it work, but that's something to definitely watch for in the future if I do another collage-type drawing.
There you have it, those are my recent sketches! What do you guys think? Which ones are your favorites (I think mine is Tristan and Isolde or Benny or Huntrix or...I can't decide)? Do you love smearing things as much as I do when it comes to pencil shading? Any drawing tips? What should I draw next? Which TV show should become my new obsession??
Catch ya next time!
Chloe the MovieCritic
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[All drawings by Chloe 2025 and 2026, not to be reused anywhere except on Movies Meet Their Match]
