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We had to illustrate a sound for my editorial illustration class without being too literal or situational. This assignment had me beating my head against the wall, but I finally got something I'm happy with.

This is the sound of my alarm in the morning.

I went with a rougher look to kind of imply how jarring the sound is. This is mostly done in photoshop, other than the initial sketch.
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Heh, funny. Once I had drawn something with a similar situation. Here's what was going on in the drawing:

It takes place inside an army barracks facility. All the stick figure soldiers are asleep in bed. Suddenly, these two cartoonish guys come in, dressed as drill sergeants. One guy is yellow and the other guy's red. The red guy shouts "SOUND THE ALARM!" Then his mouth morphs into a megaphone, and he screams like a girl. The soldiers wake up abruptly. The yellow guy then shouts, "WAKE UP!!!"

I made this drawing in my chidlhood years in the '90s. It was inspired by a commercial I saw. It was advertising a new type of virtual pet toy, like the Nano Series and GigaPets. Though I can't remember what the name of this series was. All I can remember were three different models that were styled after smileys with different emotions.

-Model 1: Purple female smiley with big lips. Had a smoochy attitude.

-Model 2: Yellow male with grumpy face. One of his phrases was "HEY! WHAT YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!?" or something similar.

-Model 3: Red male smiley with panicked face. On screen, he was floating around some classic monsters, including Frankenstein's Monster, and The Mummy. He shouted, "SOUND THE ALARM!" Then he floated over to one of the monsters. His mouth morphed into a megaphone and he screamed like a girl in the monster's face. The he floated over to another monster and shouted, "WAKE UP!"

I searched the internet for that toy, but without its name, my searches were fruitless.

Do you think you know that toy? It's pretty old school, so it can be hard to remember, but try your best.

P.S. I don't know if you seen this, but there is a video on youtube that's pretty funny and has to do with waking up and alarm clocks:

Title: World's Loudest Alarm Clock!

Author: kipkay

Created: 10 months ago

Current number of views (As of the time this comment was entered): 2,513,952

Don't consider this spam, I'm just adding a cross-reference.