Shanley

Hey everybody,
As I said in the showcase discussion, I believe a challenge on posters for movies is a very interesting thing. I am not sure however if this should be a challenge or a collection. I wouldn't make it a challenge for two reasons:
- the ongoing two challenges that are already traditional here are always fun and keep up us 'busy' pretty much, so I thought it might be a bit disrespectful (maybe I'm exaggerating a bit, I dont know how others would feel..)
- there would be too much pressure to put another deadline (sure, we could have it going for a month or so, but still...); besides I'm not sure who would assume picking the first time. Personally, that's the only thing i don't like about challenges: chosing just one pic. Furthermore, I think this is indeed challenging, given the two choices we have here: copying a good poster for the sake of improving our tehnique or making a poster out of our imagination for developing our ideas and exposing our own point of view.
Therefore, I will appreciate your feeedback on the organization of this - challenge vs. collection and I'll appreciate even more getting it started.
(Thank you Q for the encouragement, the minute I read your reply i thought that even for the delight of seeing another Q masterpiece it's worth trying this ).

Dragon

Here's one for you
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=26609

I'm all for it either being a challenge or a collection. Back in the day when the forum was brand new people would throw challenges out all the time. At the beginning it was just a way to inspire people and get to see pictures of something you really like. Typically there was no 'winner' chosen for these and no time limit, they would just sort of fall out of the front of the forum list as fewer people posted pictures or got bored with the subject. At some point an artist named Mugdots started a challenge to draw monarch butterflies and said she'd choose a winner to choose the next subject. That was how the Mugdots challenges started. Sadly, Mugdots no longer comes on Think Draw (and she is very much missed) but I suppose you could say a legacy continues in the Mugdots challenge. Another artist (I'm sorry I can't remember who) started the Golden Pen challenge in much the same fashion, it's the other challenge that runs regularly though I don't think anyone calls it the Golden Pen challenge anymore.
Well, there's a little TD history lesson for everyone. If I've gotten any of it wrong feel free to correct me.

Login

I like the idea of an ongoing collection, Shanley ... and thanks to Dragon for starting us off. G'night all ... I need some beauty sleep (or a bucket of botox).

Shanley

that's a very cool poster, Dragon and thank you for getting this started. I had came across Mugdots in one of my searches for something inspiring her, nevertheless I was still curious how these challenges had begun. Well, we'll make it a collection in this case. I suppose putting cool things in here, should be as fun and welcome as any other good work. Thank you both for giving me your opinions on this. Good night from Bucharest too. It's very late here and i really should be sleeping.

stevedover1965

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=89937

Here is one for the kitty, Shanley.

Qsilv

This was done by anotherronism back in January '09 - from Silence of the Lambs

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=19462

stevedover1965

Here is another Movie Poster for the challenge http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=90697

stevedover1965

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=90697

(Movie Poster) "The Mummy"

stevedover1965

Also can I add this for "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind"
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=89675

Shanley

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=90900 Attempt at 'shutter island' poster..

belladonnis

Wizard of OZ
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=91892

GingerNinja

Alice In Wonderland (2010):
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=93190

Please rate and comment this picture...and help me try to get into the Top-5!!
Thanks To All!

~Ginger☺☻

clorophilla

here there are some of my oldies...
avatar http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=87548
the time traveler's wife
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=85116
2012 http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=72270
Donnie Darko http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=71999
This is it http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=71767
and the beautiful TV series of SF Battlestar Galactica http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=71717

there also so many pics about Harry Potter movies:
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=84279
and mainly portraits (you will find them here http://www.thinkdraw.com/forumPosts.php?topicId=771
except the last two
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=86697
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=92154

clorophilla

Ops - I missed this http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=83304

Shanley

Those are all great examples, Clorophilla. Thank you for adding them

Shanley

The brave one: http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=101729

Shanley

One more from the Harry Potter series, by Clorophilla: http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=101558

Shanley

And 'The mad hatter' by Hjjr: http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=94062

clorophilla

Do the TV series fit the challenge?
Here there are two pics from Star trek Voyager
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=97664
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=97579

Shanley

As long as it runs on a screen, it's welcome. Thank you for adding these, Clorophilla. Should anyone have more posters that 'slipped my eyes' please feel free to add them here.