Art by Committee

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 7:44 -0700

Our challenge this week is to illustrate this line: "The old man felt a tendril of anger rising."

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Andy · Post by **Andy** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 15:03 -0700

This week's ABC Challenge from the Gurney Journey is to look at a real business card and imagine what the business owner(s) are like:

This business card:

...inspired this comic:

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 16:08 -0700

An extra comic to fill in the blanks of some of the others.

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:12 -0700

"She was stiff and clumsy with rage. White-blonde hair spilled free of its sheer silken covering, tumbling past slender shoulders clad in slate grey velvet. Her gown was torn and…"

That's our prompt this week at the ABC Challenge. That science fiction excerpt inspired this comic:

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 16:37 -0700

For those of you late to the party, this is how this works -- The ABC Challenge (Art by Committee) is a sketch game run by artist James Gurney. Once a month he posts a random line from a science fiction novel. The challenge to participants is to illustrate that line however we see it. We do not know the novel or the context of the line. I always choose to make a page or so of comics. I'm trying to piece them all together into a long form comic story. Eventually the whole story will be told in the pages of Eclectic Comics, the comic book I publish.

The line to illustrate this time was: “I should stay here and keep an eye out.” I cheated a little, but I'm like that.

This segment of the story introduces two new characters. The previous actions of our hero, The Mighty Andar have also caused two other imprisoned superheroes to regain their powers. For sketches and background info, visit Panel Discussion.

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 15:01 -0700

This is my entry for this month's Art by Committee challenge. The assignment this time is to draw our interpretation of this following quote -- an actual excerpt from a science fiction novel:

"I lashed out with my left arm, clutched something thin and hard, tore at it; the next second a banana tree fell across my chest. But the pain was..."

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 7:07 -0700

“Behind the bar, polishing four glasses at the same time with his blue tentacles, was the Tookah. Two of his three eyes didn’t bother to look up, but it was the third one, the upper eye, the sleepy one that appears bored by everything but never misses anything. That one sleepily looked over at me and then blinked and opened wide.”

This was the quote we were assigned to illustrate for the latest challenge at Art by Committee.
I chose to put the scene within the context of a story I'm doing. In case you came in late, The Mighty Andar has been deprived of his powers, beaten and abused and locked up in an alien prison. Now he's got his powers back and has a score to settle with some prison guards.

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 17:20 -0700

Our challenge this month is to illustrate this quote:

“The harper began to sing. His deep voice was fine and sweet, eloquently expressing his intent. He sang of the bitterness of defeat and the gut-wrenching carnage of war. He sang of boys…”

Below is the comic strip I made in response to that prompt:

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 13:27 -0700

This month's ABC Challenge is to somehow use the business card above as inspiration for a work of art. To me, it led to the origin of Clipboard Girl, one of the characters in my comics.

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Sat Jul 18, 2009 9:41 -0700

The Art by Committee challenge is a sketch game I play each month. It's sponsored by the Gurney Journey, and I just figured out that this is my 20th challenge. My responses to these challenges have generated 40 pages of comics.

As an experiment, what I've been doing, is trying to make as many of the prompts as I can go into the same story. By jumping around a lot, I can make a lot of them fit. As it turns out, the two pages I made for this month's challenge flows nicely into the very first one I did! Because it makes a nice punchline, I'm reprinting it at the bottom of this post.

Eventually, they'll all appear in an issue of Eclectic Comics.

Anyway, this month's challenge was to interpret this random, out of context line from a science fiction novel:

“But when the dots did not vanish even after he scrubbed his fists across his eyes three times, he shouted hoarsely…”

Here we go!

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 13:31 -0700

Our quote for this month is,

And here is my solution

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 17:39 -0700

This month's prompt:

"He stood and held his arms out before him, pulling the chains taut. The muscles in his shoulders and chest bunched, standing out in sharp relief, and a moment later, the chains snapped clearly."

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Sun Sep 20, 2009 12:59 -0700

The Art by Committee challenge this month is to illustrate this random quote from a science fiction novel:

"I became immediately and irrationally angry. How dare this six foot chicken with a silly red crest on top of his narrow foolish head say that we humans were deficient in feii? I controlled...."

The comic below is what I created for this challenge.

Andy · Post by **Andy** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 18:52 -0700

When last we heard from The Mighty Andar, he was thrown 20 feet by a giant chicken.

The Art by Committee Challenge this month is to illustrate this random quote from a science fiction novel.

“He is shorter than I remember, and thin. His fur is grayed to white in a fringe around his head, just below his ears. His coat is dull, thinning, and coarse. His eyes, so bright I…”

Below are two pages. The second is the one I did to illustrate this challenge. The one above it is one I did about a year and a half ago, to put it in context.

Jet_Jaguar · Post by **Jet_Jaguar** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 19:27 -0700

I think that a fun challenge would be to illustrate one of the "dialogues" from that classic of unintentional comedy, English as She is Spoke.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_as_she_is_spoke

Project Gutenberg plain text edition:

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/30411

If I had enough drawing ability to illustrates one of the "dialogues" from this towering work, I think I would choose this one:

For the comedy.

Were you go to the theatre yesterday?
Yes, sir; I won't to see the new play in which did owed to play
and actress which has not appeared on any theatre.
How you think her?
She has very much grace in the deeds great deal of exactness on
the declamation, a constitution very agreable, and a delightful
voice.
What you say of the comedy? Have her succeded? It was a drama;
it was whistted to the third scene of the last act.
Because that?
It whant the vehicle, and the intrigue it was bad conducted.
So that they won't waited even the upshot?
No, it was divined.
In the mean time them did diliver justice to the players which
generaly have play very well.
At the exception by a one's self, who had land very much hir's
part.
It want to have not any indulgence towards the bat buffoons.
Have you seen already the new tragedy? They
praise her very much.
It is multitude already.
Never I had seen the parlour so full.
This actor he make very well her part.
That piece is full of interest.
It have wondered the spectadors.
The curtains let down.
Go out us.