Portrait Thyself!

So now the holiday madness is over its type to brush off our digital paint programs and analog pencils and get some drawing challenge on! Like the title says, its all about the self portrait this challenge. So be it, realistic, cubistic, impressionistic or cartoonistic, get crackin and lets see what YOU come up with!!

Happy new year, y'all!

Classic self portrait for your inspiration

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~SWH

Watercolor in the style of Hurst
~Jim Baker

Jinger Bells!

Well its been ages since our last challenge and no one even did it, BASTARDS!! Things got pretty insane and now none of us are at Sony Imageworks anymore. Several have gone back to Disney, another is London, I am in Texas, so we are all scattered now. This might be a cool way to stay in touch and whatnot.

So, being in the XMAS spirit we are gonna have an XMAS oriented challenge, but with a twist. The demented mind of, Weirdo made an excellent suggestion. Evil Xmas! Since we all have a little darkness in us, its always fun to paint it on otherwise cheerful subjects.

Have at it!!

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~Jim Baker

~Joe Mandia

~Scott Holmes

~Don Alexander

Eerie and Creepy!

Another flash back to the bygone ear of compilation horror mags. The Warren publishing company had corner on this market. Super high caliber artwork married with incredible stories gave birth to some of the greatest comic magazines ever created. If your a horror fan and you've never heard of these, you owe it to yourself to go to your local comic shop and see if they have any old issues on sale. You'll thank me! Anyway, this weeks challenge is inspired by these old gems. Do a panel, do a cover, whatever you have time for and whatever strikes your fancy. The books were all b&w except for their covers so lets keep it in that vein. If you do a panel, do it in b&w (you can use washes or tones), if you do a cover, go all out in color!

Happy New Year!! (yeah I know, its a little late...)

So art fans, this is the first post since '06 and seeing how I am helping to get Spiderman 3 out the door I thought that "Superhero" should be an appropriate challenge to bring in the new year. Marvel, DC, Image, Vertigo, Dark Horse, whatever you choose its an open field. Even if you've had one of your own design, go ahead and throw down!!!! Can't wait to see what you have up your sleeves!

Excelsior!

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-Hanko

-SHolmes

-JMandia

-JBaker

"The Further Adventures of Slim & Steve" -SGordon

-Sleven

-PDavies

Retro TV - Challenge for week of 12/04/2006

Dust off School House Rock and turn the knob on that old tv to one of the 13 channels in your memory banks! Thats right, this week's challenge is classic TV from your childhood. The Monkies, The Fugitive, Abbott & Costello, F-Troop or Saturday Morning Cartoons!! Depending on how many years you have under your belt and what you were into as a kid the sky is the limit on this one, so have at it!!

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(animated giff. click on pidture to view)
-Hanko

-JMandia

Noir! Challenge for week of 11-27-06

Noir can mean different things to different folks. What does it mean to you? Film Noir, Comic Noir? Frank Miller? Maybe, felt fadoras and private dicks is your flavor. Lets see what you got! We are gonna get a little more restricted with this weeks challenge, black, white and a color of your choice.

Can't wait to see what you come up with!!

Here is a little inspiration:

http://www.supernaturalcrime.com/Gallery/FemmeNoir/Barreto_01.jpg

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Noir a Sketch!
-PDavies


-Sleven

-JBaker

Happy Thanksgiving!! Week of 11-20-06

Well, since its a holiday week for most, we've decided to take a break for the week as many folks are out on vacation etc. So no new drawings for next Monday, but a new theme will be up next week. I will say this tho, for those of you with some time on your hands and a creative itch to scratch I will throw this out there....since it is Thanksgiving week you can post anything Thanksgiving/Turkey/Fall/Pilgrim, etc related. Could make for some interesting drawings.

There ya have it!! Until next week...Turkey's beware!!

-PDavies
(Our resident overachiever)