4.22.2009

"A Cabin in the Woods" illustrations & Drawing Challenge #1

A few years back I worked with a Mr. Guy J. Jackson. Guy was, among many things, a Storyteller. I didn't realize one could still aspire to be a Storyteller in the modern era... but okay. Guy used to put together these slip-shod post-it size story books that he would mail off to publishers. He had a huge binder full of rejection letters from them, which he sometimes brought to work to flip through, clutching his head, muttering, "I've squandered my life!"
At one point, either feeling pity for Guy, or a desire to draw someone else's ideas, I wound up illustrating one of his stories while sitting at my desk at work. I stretched about a paragraph worth of story into 16 illustrations. The story is pretty odd, and I left the grammar and punctuation alone, which I pasted up into the illustrations zine-style:

















DRAWING CHALLENGE #1
This part requires a little group participation: in the comments below, write one line that can be illustrated. (example: Monkey removing training wheels from a bicycle.) I will take the first ten that are posted, sketch them up, and post them. The one that I like the best (or maybe we'll put it to a vote) I'll turn into a painting, and the person who posted that idea gets the painting for free! Get to it!!

11 comments:

  1. Platypus saving a baby from a burning building.

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  2. Makin' the weather with a low light bulb

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  3. metalhead baseball player astronaut shopping for porn dvds.

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  4. a penguin trying out to become a ghostbuster.

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  5. A robot becoming the news anchor of the century, during the biggest blizzard ever.

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  6. Alexander waited patiently at the bus stop, wondering what his mother had packed for lunch.

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  7. MOBSTER LOBSTER/LOBSTER MOBSTER
    A mobster using a lobster as his tommy gun. Or a lobster using a mobster as his tommy gun. Or Maybe just a lobster dressed as a mobster using a tommy gun. It would be a shame not to draw the tommy gun.

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  8. A Hedgehog versus an icecream cone in a battle of wits

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  9. A zombie giving birth to a robot.

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  10. Bag guy shopping for designer bags.

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