Draw-Off Tournament 2008

[L Jamal]

Back by popular demand (or just because Jamal is a masocist), the Digital Webbing Draw-Off Tourament of 2008 will start some time in October. So now is the time to speak up and tell me what you would like to see this year in the tournament.

[Mike225]

because Jamal is a masocistI didn't know you hate women, Jamal. :p

[sevans]

Don't have a preference, but I'm in!
I'll be kicked out in the first round anyway, so whats a few hours drawing. :whistlin:

Actually I lied, no wolverine, spidey or bats. They get done quite abit as is.

[Lord Fejj]

I'm up for anything! Love to see some "pulp" type stuff

[Meathawg]

I personally prefer the more open ended contests... for example rather then draw Hellboy... draw anyone that appears in Helboy comics... (not that I want to draw Hellboy and co. cuz I really dont, just an example.

Saw a draw Godzilla contest on another board, would have gladly entered if I coulda drawn any from the bestiary of Godzilla movies, but draw the main lizard himsself? no thanks...

[Mike225]

Or drawing stuff that's not really a character. Like, "draw a tense scene" or something. *shrug*

[bluelinesmoke]

Maybe some conceptual stuff, like environments or industrial design could be incorporated. I'd love to see multiple interpretations of Arkham for example, or new sentinel designs.

[Moonrider]

I wanna see boobies this year.
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...aaaand I guess I'll just keep hoping for it next year.

[Lady_Raven]

ninja turtles? :P create your own tarot card? Your pet? I just woke up so these are just falling out of my head.

[Phatman]

How about a prize?

-Art in a DW book or some other publisher would be a great prize--even a pin-up would be cool.

-a year's premium memebership

-some comics

-art supplies (maybe a gift certificate from Blueline, etc.)

Not saying anybody on the site should front some dough for this, maybe somebody would sponser it. This would add some juice to the contest and get/keep people involved---less no-shows would be great.

[MyronStanley]

Maybe some movie or tv related challenges.

[Scaleyinx]

I loved it the year where you had situational challenges, with characters doing things, such as having a drink with an enemy or hero vs. enemy, etc. It really made you have to think creatively as you would when you are doing sequentials as opposed to doing a pinup. :)

[Calloway]

Transformers, Batman, Ghostbusters, Goonies and Thundarr!

I wanna be in group 3!

[Meathawg]

Ive always been a big fan of character reinterpritations(sp?) i.e. elseworld type shtuff....

I like the idea of doing things other then pinups tho (with some pinups) like people doing stuff, hero vs villain etc that someone above mentioned...

So whens this shindig start? Im chomping at the bit!

[Calloway]

To give you an idea of how this is done do a search in this forum for draw off tourneyment...or he-man :)

[The Dag]

Create a alien for the Green Lantern Corps.

[drewerd]

yay, tourney time :D

[zcotty]

I too would like to see some "Pulpy" stuff.

[Calloway]

retro category

spirit

tarzan

buck rogers


you get the idea.

[Moonrider]

I'd like to see little caricatures of superheroes (like Bullpen Bits) but based on any page or covers straight out of their comic books. For example you choose a popular comic book cover/memorable page and turn all the characters into chibi/toon versions of themselves. I imagine it'd be fun to see.

Or, just do parodies of comic book covers.

[ShinyTop]

How about.............

draw something from your life...like your kids, sister, mother, etc.,


Or..........how about a new hair style for Superman? The mullet from a few years back was horrible.


Anyone remember an old cartoon .had to do with guys in space with ..........I think it was spacehawks? or something like that...........


Or characters from Alice in Wonderland.. Or the Grimm fairytales.

Just some suggestions... :sure:

[Meathawg]

Ooooh I love redesinging fairy tales.... I second that motion. And the spacehawks were the guys that flew around space all dressed in shiny metal skintight armor....

on that note maybe redesgin obscure toy/cartoon characters from the 80s...

insektoids, herculoids, thundaarr and co etc etc... Hell would be fun to do some guys from the ole laughalympics cartoons...

soooo whens this start :D

[drewerd]

How about.............

draw something from your life...like your kids, sister, mother, etc.,


Or..........how about a new hair style for Superman? The mullet from a few years back was horrible.


Anyone remember an old cartoon .had to do with guys in space with ..........I think it was spacehawks? or something like that...........


Or characters from Alice in Wonderland.. Or the Grimm fairytales.

Just some suggestions... :sure:
they were the silverhawks :)

[ShinyTop]

Thank you!~ I knew I wasn't crazy. That show was awesome. Do that for the tournament!!

:carrot:

[Newt]

Thanks for bringing this back! I got here too late to participate in the last one, and I hope I can find time to participate in this one.

As for me, I would prefer challenges that do not include particular existing characters, but instead force the contestants to create their own characters from scratch.

[Lord Fejj]

on that note maybe redesgin obscure toy/cartoon characters from the 80s...

insektoids, herculoids, thundaarr and co etc etc... Hell would be fun to do some guys from the ole laughalympics cartoons...
I would love to do some old Saturday morning cartoons!

[xaltair]

Anything cool and different would be good, also some cool prizes and some specific rules on voting, maybe a points based system a la olympics. :)

Also different categories for people to compete in, instead of all doing the same thing since some people are better at some things and worse at others.

[JamieRoberts]

My request is to not make it too inticing, as I'm far too busy to be getting involved in this again.

[jaxel]

I'm in too please. I have no real preference.

[Calloway]

How about a prize?

-Art in a DW book or some other publisher would be a great prize--even a pin-up would be cool.

-a year's premium memebership

-some comics

-art supplies (maybe a gift certificate from Blueline, etc.)

Not saying anybody on the site should front some dough for this, maybe somebody would sponser it. This would add some juice to the contest and get/keep people involved---less no-shows would be great.

He gave a prize at the last one.

[wellfiuza]

retro category

spirit

tarzan

buck rogers


you get the idea.

I like it....including Flash Gordon and fantasma.

[FREAKCASTLE]

I can't wait to get started again. I liked it when they were topics. For examples: Draw a sc-fi scene, or create a Pulp cover, or draw what goes bump-in-the-night, or create an alien race, or reinvent characters from Alice In Wonderland/Wizard of Oz. I just want it to be FUN....FREAK

[Worthless]

I want in!!!!

[Newt]

Probably too much trouble to be worthwhile, but just an idea I had- run a Write-off Tournament simultaneously, and team up the semi-finalists at the end.

[Calloway]

I can't wait to get started again. I liked it when they were topics. For examples: Draw a sc-fi scene, or create a Pulp cover, or draw what goes bump-in-the-night, or create an alien race, or reinvent characters from Alice In Wonderland/Wizard of Oz. I just want it to be FUN....FREAK

problem with some of those ideas is the time constraints. A lot of people are too busy to actually do a finished cover in a weeks time.

[Grey Avatar]

VERSUS I wanna see the fights you always wanted to see.

Buffy Vs Blade, Hulk Vs Doomsday, The Darkness Vs Hellboy,
Transformers VS Gobots, Tron VS the MAtrix ,sumthin!

[Calloway]

VERSUS I wanna see the fights you always wanted to see.

Buffy Vs Blade, Hulk Vs Superman, The Darkness Vs Hellboy,
Transformers VS Gobots, Tron VS the MAtrix ,sumthin!

fixed and I second this

[jakebilbao]

VERSUS I wanna see the fights you always wanted to see.

Buffy Vs Blade, Hulk Vs Doomsday, The Darkness Vs Hellboy,
Transformers VS Gobots, Tron VS the MAtrix ,sumthin!
you missed LilGreenMan VS Newt! :w00t: :w00t:



woohhooo is it that time of year?! i'm in baby!!!!!!!! :bounce:

[CHUCKO]

I'll give it a go but I'll get destroyed first round.

[Decaying_art]

I would like to participate, even though, as many have stated before me, I will be destroyed first round!

[colt45]

It's been awhile since I've posted anything in any of the draw-offs, but I would like to be in on this as well...I really liked the sequential part of the draw-off tourney last year, and hope that we have another one included this time around!

[kingbyron]

me to please :)

[jefftingley]

I like stuff that is steeped in comic books.... indy mainstream uber-mainstream... whatever as long as it is comics based. I know there are a lot of requests here for 80's cartoon cult movies and such so I am the minority.. but just voicing my humble opinion.
And I like the versus stuff.. classic or fights you always wanted to see.
And I like stuff that suggests a format... a splash page, a pinup.. character design.. sequential... a cover... whatever.. change it up through out the tourney and I will be happy for as long as I get to play.
I feel the redesigns have been done like crazy in the last year or so, so not neccassary for the tourny.
And as far as books that I would LOVE to draw from:
Invincible
Runaways
Nightwing
Green Lantern
Spidey
Wolvie
Shazam (a sins/virtues round would be great from this book)
Poison Elves
Madman
and Teen Titans

Hope this helps.

-jefftingley

[captainarian]

MONSTER CHICKS! :carrot: :banana:

[Oninoko]

This sounds like an interesting challenge.

How does one get into this Tournament?

[zcotty]

It hasn't started yet. We're just tossing ideas around. I think...

[The DarkMind]

there is usually a sign up. i'm hoping to get my ass in gear and see what i can do. i need something to kill this rut i've been in.

[john_amor]

I'm up for whatever as well. Characters over environments though, preferably. LOL. This'll be cool to try.

[Meathawg]

Can we get a date and/or signup pleeeeeeeease :D

:banana: i wanna doodle :banana:

[L Jamal]

Can we get a date and/or signup pleeeeeeeease :D

:banana: i wanna doodle :banana:
No one read the first post... did they?

[The DarkMind]

"some time in october" is not a date :p

[Biofungus]

I shall consider participating...

[secret-identity]

I wanna be in it too.

[NGoff]

I loved it the year where you had situational challenges, with characters doing things, such as having a drink with an enemy or hero vs. enemy, etc. It really made you have to think creatively as you would when you are doing sequentials as opposed to doing a pinup. :)

*NOD*

:har:

-Nicole =)

[pashburn25]

i'll give it a try this time. all i ask is the categories are more varied. as for the issues of drop outs maybe try more categories that contain mainstream characters/comics/games/movies. i dunno :)

[Doomsmith]

I really liked it when you had the Last Man Standing type of setup where everyone drew avatars of themselves (screen names) and had to draw you and the person you were paired up with in battle. But it went out of control via Mortal Kombat style, not that it mattered to me since I came out on top.

Maybe this time around kinda incorporate that with maybe interactions with established characters and situations. That should keep it interesting, what do the rest of you think about that?

[wisper]

tits' guns.monsters.machines.aliens.mom.

[L Jamal]

It Begins.... Read the new tournament threads for more information.