Art by Committee

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Fri May 23, 2008 20:51 -0700

One of my favorite artist blogs is the Gurney Journey, by artist James Gurney. He's currently holding a challenge he calls Art by Committee. He posts a random selection of a science fiction novel and asks any willing artists to interpret it visually. This week's challenge is to illustrate this scene.

"Stone emitted a kind of bark -- ha! -- and showed his teeth again."

We have no idea what novel it came from or anything else about the story. Here's my submission:

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Sat May 31, 2008 19:23 -0700

Here's last week's challenge:

and my submission.

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And the next week's:

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 20:19 -0700

My Art By Committee Challenge entry is a very loose interpretation of the prompt,

http://andrewwales.blogspot.com/2008/06 ... l-day.html

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:05 -0700

Either I'm wasting my time with these, or it just might be going somewhere.

I think that story generating tools, prompts and challenges like these are a form of apophenia -spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness of unrelated phenomena. Have you seen the comics people do with scripts that come from spam emails?

Here's my latest entry for the ABC challenge:

http://andrewwales.blogspot.com/2008/06 ... ieves.html[/url]

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 13:48 -0700

Last week's challenge was

Here's my entry:

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 13:49 -0700

This week's challenge is

My response is

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 15:11 -0700

The Art by Committee Challenge comes every week from James Gurney, the creator of Dinotopia. His sequential art is almost a comic! His blog is awesome. from technical painting advice to a fun challenge ever week. The latest challenge from http://www.gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/ is

"Snarking hell, Jensen, you damn hear got us roasted"

Here is my submission!

See more of my arty goodness at Panel Discussion

Marchino · Post by **Marchino** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 15:55 -0700

wow thos are really cool challenges huh??? i mean they are great , aweasome work Andy!!!!!!!!

Abayo,
Marchino

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 4:53 -0700

Thanks, Marchino. For some reason the prompts really get my imagination going.

The Gurney website has a lot of cool info about art in general, and his dinosaur art.

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:28 -0700

"The man looked bored."

My entry is below:

See more of my arty goodness at Panel Discussion
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Marchino · Post by **Marchino** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:59 -0700

jajajajajajajaj Mr.Rondo

Abayo,
Marchino

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:19 -0700

This week's challenge is to illustrate this line: "It seemed as if the entire planet was a university."

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 12:45 -0700

This week's prompt is, "His left eye was swollen shut."

http://andrewwales.blogspot.com/

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 13:10 -0700

"Their voices were high pitched and piercing, yet human." This was the ABC Challenge this week. I immediately thought of the BeeGees, and worked them into the current Andar epic.

http://andrewwales.blogspot.com[/url]

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 19:56 -0700

This week's prompt is, “The man spasmed against the snow. 'Gods, no! No! No sorcery'—'Hold him,' I said calmly, as he tried to leap up and run."

I had to cheat a little to make the scene fit my story.