Tournament 2007: Round 1

[L Jamal]

The theme for round 1 is creator owned comics. The task is to draw a cover style image featuring the specified main character and at least one other character from the book.You may have to do some research about the title. Upon completion of your image, be sure to post your image in the correct image thread for your group. I'll be posting those threads tomorrow. Good luck!

The deadline fo rthis round is July 14. That's right you have 2 weeks.

GROUP 1
ChrisK, Deuce, jameswisinger, Meat Monkey, Propsdue, salvador raga, Shep, teach, TGK, Wozlok

Group 1 Assignment : Jeff Smith's Bone. The drawing must include Gran'ma Ben and at least one other character.



GROUP 2
BEN DENNIS, cinam, JMan, LilGreenMan, litebox, managuan, pashburn25, raya, TDHodges, vector

Group 2 Assignment : Dave Sim's Cerebus. The drawing must include Astoria and at least one other Cerebus character.



GROUP 3
AntFace, Grey Avatar, Lord Fejj, masked_ramen, Mecha, Mike225, Mitze, omega sentry, Ron Phillips, Rothart

Gropup 3 Assignment: James O'Barr The Crow. The drawing must include Eric Draven and at least one other Crow character from the comic or movie.



GROUP 4
dano, Don.Edwards, evolver, forthimmortal, JaySavage, jefftingley, Phatman, swayvacious1, xombey, y2e

Group 4 Assignment : TMNT . The drawing must contain Splinter and at least one other character from the comic, cartoon or movies.



GROUP 5
Axel, ben-jones, DieselHead, Locoduck, misteraxis, naenae, Scaleyinx, secret-identity, Zamurai

Group 5 Assignment : Terry Moore's Strangers in Paradise. The drawing must contain David and at least one other character from the comic.



GROUP 6
amyk, Big-B, Cap, colt45, compton, jakebilbao, jaxel, jpmanzan, Rob Norton

Group 6 assignment : Scott Mcloud's Zot! The drawing must include Butch as a chimpanzee and at least one other character.



GROUP 7
BioFungus, chungking2399, Digipunch, firejix2006, FREAKCASTLE, j giar, JZiegler, Moonrider, Rex

Group 7 Assignment: Mike Mignola's Hellboy. The image must include Lobster Johnson and at least one other character from the comic, cartoons, or movie.



GROUP 8
albone, chaosgoat, eve, Initial Monkey, JLillustrator, ljamal, midknight, sevans, Worthless

Group 8 Assignment: Mark Schultz Xenozoic Tales. The drawing must include Cadillac Jack Tenrec and one other character from the comic.



GROUP 9
bluelinesmokem, GRAPHITE REVOLVER, KIERAN OATS, mysterionB, OZ!, Scott F, SethNI, the_profeshenal, xaltair

Group 9 Assignment : Tellos. The drawing must include Serra and at least one other character from the comic.



GROUP 10
Cat, DarkKni9hT, Hanzou, pi0trov, Ray Dillon, secondrater, SMT, Sprinter, The Tinker

Group 10 Assignment : Frank Cho's Liberty Meadows.The drawing must include Dean the Pig and at least one other character.

[Big-B]

group 6 here you go, a gift from me http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/zot/index.html

[JaySavage]

Nice love the topic for my group, One question when is the deadline? :thumbs:

[bluelinesmoke]

I'm a little jealous that I didn't get TMNT, Liberty Meadows, or Hellboy. I don't know much about Tellos, but it looks like something I can have a lot of fun with. Excellent choices Jamal.

[BEN DENNIS]

Well,... I got thrust into the topic regarding the one book out of all of these that I've never once read... Could be a challenge.

[vector]

Well,... I got thrust into the topic regarding the one book out of all of these that I've never once read... Could be a challenge.

I'm in the same boat, Not a big cereubus fan, he looks like a cartoon. I would have killed the group that got the CROW!!! But thats the roll of da dice I guess. :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[secondrater]

Crikey.
I've never read Libert Meadows. Anyone got any good Dean the Pig reference?

[SethNI]

Nice subjects.
I know I have at least one Tellos comic book sitting at the bottom of a pile somewhere! Rock on!

[BEN DENNIS]

Crikey.
I've never read Libert Meadows. Anyone got any good Dean the Pig reference?

That's right where I'd have liked to have landed.
There's a daily Liberty Meadows web strip, as well as a home page. Just Google the name.

[secondrater]

That's right where I'd have liked to have landed.
There's a daily Liberty Meadows web strip, as well as a home page. Just Google the name.

Thanks!

[the_profeshenal]

Where can I find a good Tellos reference?

[mysterionB]

I found this Tellos fansite to be pretty good.

http://members.tripod.com/dh_u/

[L Jamal]

Nice love the topic for my group, One question when is the deadline? :thumbs:
July 14

All the deadlines for the tournament are listed in the Tournament 2007 thread.

[Zamurai]

Well,... I got thrust into the topic regarding the one book out of all of these that I've never once read... Could be a challenge.

Ditto...oh well, sometimes it's good to have a challenge....

Z.

[JaySavage]

July 14

All the deadlines for the tournament are listed in the Tournament 2007 thread.

I feel stupid, I just read it on the original posting. Oh well lol Thanks for being patient and answering anyhow.

[pashburn25]

i've been searching the net for some reference for cerebus but there aren't (as far as i can see) any supporting character art pieces anywhere.

[litebox]

me too....i'm having a hard time looking for some ref of Cerebus.... :cry:

[L Jamal]

i've been searching the net for some reference for cerebus but there aren't (as far as i can see) any supporting character art pieces anywhere.
Try looking at Cerebus covers. Astoria is the female character in this one.
http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/15704489854.43.GIF

[vector]

I haven't had much luck either on cerebus.I've googled cerebus every which way and got a bunch of nothin' :blink:

steve

[L Jamal]

You can find all Cerebus covers at MileHighComics.com

[DarkKni9hT]

Liberty Meadows cover browser: http://www.libertymeadows.com/covers/LM%20Gallery/LMCovers3/index.html

[Don.Edwards]

Dumb question department:

Are we limited to any one type of medium??

[L Jamal]

If the criteria for the round don't specify a limitation, then there is none.

[omega sentry]

The theme for round 1 is creator owned comics. The task is to draw a cover style image featuring the specified main character and at least one other character from the book.You may have to do some research about the title. Upon completion of your image, be sure to post your image in the correct image thread for your group. I'll be posting those threads tomorrow. Good luck!

The deadline fo rthis round is July 14. That's right you have 2 weeks.




GROUP 3
AntFace, Grey Avatar, Lord Fejj, masked_ramen, Mecha, Mike225, Mitze, omega sentry, Ron Phillips, Rothart

Gropup 3 Assignment: James O'Barr The Crow. The drawing must include Eric Draven and at least one other Crow character from the comic or movie.


eric who? oi...I'm not familiar with the crow...all I remember is iggy pop and brandon lee...thank god for two weeks...

[omega sentry]

NM mind googled it haha... :laugh: silly me...brandon lee is eirc hahah I know, shame on me I never did read the comics.

[vector]

Omega Eric the original crow? I'll trade ya cerebus for your crow ;)

Steve

[Jasen Smith]

Im a lil confused.

I didnt know we'd be paired in teams.

Now that I know does each team make a cover or each member from the team make a cover?

thanks :D

[mysterionB]

Each group competes within that group...top five go onto next round...

[L Jamal]

Im a lil confused.

I didnt know we'd be paired in teams.

Now that I know does each team make a cover or each member from the team make a cover?

thanks :D
No teams, this is a competition and because of the number of participants, you compete within a group. The people with the top votes in each group moves on tot he next round. Check out the Rounds from last year tournament for a better understanding.

[eve]

misteraxis, now that'd be a cool idea too !

[omega sentry]

I haven't had much luck either on cerebus.I've googled cerebus every which way and got a bunch of nothin' :blink:

steve


hahah...I'll pass lol. But you could do a cerebus crow :laugh: I know his like been spidey and spawn bats...actually you can have fun with that one. :)

[Mike225]

Where do we lay down our entries?

[raya]

Cerebus:

http://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=list&title=15704489854&snumber=1

[vector]

You may have something there, Thanks for the idea's :cool:

Steve :banana:


hahah...I'll pass lol. But you could do a cerebus crow :laugh: I know his like been spidey and spawn bats...actually you can have fun with that one. :)

[L Jamal]

Where do we lay down our entries?
In the appropriate artwork thread for your group.

[TDHodges]

i've been searching the net for some reference for cerebus but there aren't (as far as i can see) any supporting character art pieces anywhere.


Yea... I'm in the same boat.

[mysterionB]

Try looking at Cerebus covers. Astoria is the female character in this one.
http://image.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/fullsize/15704489854.43.GIF


Its the woman here and some other character from Cerebus?

...hmmm... just use Cerebus the aardvark!!

or there's wolveroach and moon roach!!!

... and Jaka!

http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/1843/liljakajv7.gif

That's all I know

[JMan]

Yea... I'm in the same boat.


CEREBUS REFERENCE SITES - the last one is a good cover ref:

http://www.geocities.com/cerebuscomic/chars.html

http://www.cerebusfangirl.com/pictures/index.php

http://comics.org/covers.lasso?SeriesID=2424



Good luck!

[Gav Heryng]

Would it be too late for me to get involved with this?

Dis

[L Jamal]

Would it be too late for me to get involved with this?

Dis
yes

[Gav Heryng]

To the point. Cheers anyway.

Dis

[compton]

did I miss something why where both Bone pictures Starwars themed?
was there an alternate theme for all pics?

[L Jamal]

Nope, that was just coincidence.

[compton]

cool then i don't have to start from scratch :P

[raya]

Since a few people don't seem to know the background behind "Strangers in Paradise", here are the basics:

David ended up falling in love with Katina (Katchoo) when she was a prostitute. David's sister was Katina's boss and lover at the time. Katina eventually left the business, but was still harassed by David's sister until her death (and after his sister's death by her employees). David inherited millions, and eventually asked Katina to marry him. Please realize, this was in a book that was talking about future events, so it may not be in a lot of the books (plus I haven't been buying them the past year).

Katina loved David, but was in love with Francine. Yeah, she was bisexual. She tried to make it work with David, because Francine got married to a jerk. Francine had a kid, gained weight, and kept on telling her mother she wanted to go "home", of course by "home" she meant Katina. Katina wasn't in touch with her for years, in large part because of Francine's mother. Her mother finally gave in and contacted Katina. Okay, that's the basic of what I know. If you want to know more, go to the site:

http://www.strangersinparadise.com/characters.html

Basically, Katina was madly in love with Francine, and only loved David. But you should do more research by going to the site. At this point you don't even need Google.

I'm disappointed by Moore's last cover of "Strangers in Paradise", because very often his covers were beautiful. You should check out all of them before finishing yours, good luck. :)

ljamal, I know this is a long post so you can move it to another thread if you like.

[Moonrider]

I got a Hellboy assignment. Yay! I love the character, I love its universe, I'm excited!

[dano]

WOO, jefftingley !!! :bounce:

Group 4 only has 2 posts? Remember, tie votes are broken by who posted their art first. Your continuation in the competition could hinge on getting that art up!

:banana: GO, Group 4!!

[dano]

Don.Edwards! You're picture must contain Splinter! Hurry!

[Don.Edwards]

dude.

Splinter's in the picture. Take a closer look.

[xaltair]

Wow, group 9 is quite lazy, i'm working on my piece but probably won't be able to finish it till friday or even saturday. Hopefully someone will have something up by then so i know how my competition is doing. :rolleyes:

[mysterionB]

You first ... :har:

[xaltair]

I need to get some reference on clothing so i won't finish it till friday. Is there a reason why everyone's doing their drawings as if they're a cover with the title and everything?

Did i miss something about that, or it doesn't have to look like a cover. :)

[mysterionB]

The theme for round 1 is creator owned comics. The task is to draw a cover style image featuring the specified main character and at least one other character from the book.You may have to do some research about the title. Upon completion of your image, be sure to post your image in the correct image thread for your group. I'll be posting those threads tomorrow. Good luck!

The deadline for this round is July 14. That's right you have 2 weeks.




;)

[xaltair]

Thanks, i was just looking at the description posted on the actual group 9 thread, and it didn't mention it has to be a cover. Lucky for me i'm only good enough to draw pin-up style images anyways, so it's set up as a cover by default.

I'm busy working on my Tifa right now for the BLITZ draw-off. I need to finish it today since i won't have time for it tomorrow. :har:

[mysterionB]

Hey its all good, Don't miss the deadline!!!
Although I'm afraid of being eliminated it wouldn't be any fun if no one else showed up!!!

I'm going to draw my blitz-off character tonight!

[SethNI]

I'm going to have to pull out.. sorry group 9!! I severely sprained my ankle on the 8th July and haven't been in the right frame of mind to do anything, took all my juices out of me! Sorry guys.

[pi0trov]

I'm afraid I'm going to have to bow out as well. All of my excess time and energy has been spent preparing for my wedding this Sunday, and I thought foolishly that I'd be able to sneak some time to participate in this. I've barely had time to sleep, much less sit at my drawing table. :blink:

Good luck to everybody, and I'll be sure to check in and vote next week. Maybe once I've recovered I'll actually be able to draw/post more... :)

[Calloway]

oops, forgot all about this. When I checked in on it for 2 weeks straight it went no where. Too late for me to do anything.

[bluelinesmoke]

With all these no-shows you can pretty much just throw down some stick figures and advance to round 2 by default.

[mysterionB]

With all these no-shows you can pretty much just throw down some stick figures and advance to round 2 by default.

Nice Tellos cover!!No stick figures there! :laugh:
I can see Im gonna have to step it up a couple o' notches to try and keep up with you...and with the work being posted in the other first round groups, round two is gonna be much tougher! :cool:

[SethNI]

Alright, alright.. I will TRY to do something tonight. I will work my hardest!!! But I can't promise anything! I am sure the rest of group 9 are feeling let down! :(

[SethNI]

Actually, I retract that statement.. I won't be able too.. sorry! :( :(

[DarkKni9hT]

I've got troubles too. My image is coming along nicely, however I can't get my stinkin' scanner to sync up! :man: Hours spent reinstalling software and smashing my head off the keyboard isn't helping get the art done. Will have to marathon the evening and go to the office depot to get a scan. Should make it in on time but it burns my ass to have to pay for a scan with an A3 scanner sitting right beside me. @$!**&%#$!!!!

[BEN DENNIS]

I sized and colored mine,... then fate ATE IT!!! I don't know what happened, but it certainly filled a bucket of suck.
None-the-less, I persevere and have colored it again. Yay for comics with flat color!

[L Jamal]

This round ends in about 12 hours so get your art in the correct posts.

It looks like a lot of people aren't submitting this round (including myself) for various reason so it could be an easy way to earn some points.

[dano]

Wow, outstanding job, Group 4! Them's some strong entries! This should be a slobberknocker :har:

[Hanzou]

Wow, we got a lot of last minute entries. This tournament is going to be great. :D

[JaySavage]

Great job group 4, Congrats on the strong 1st place Dano. I love your pic.

[j giar]

Great job everyone. Some of the categories I had a very tough time picking one favorite...Big thumbs up to Colt 45. Your Zot piece reminds me of Brian Bollands Animal Man covers. Very cool indeed.