Sketchwar/Sketchbattle

[Wertle]

Does anyone here follow Sketchwar (http://www.sketchwar.com/index.php?id=6)? (Or Sketchbattle, its predecessor. I think? They coexist so maybe not)

I am normally shy of competition, and I really don't like the sorts where you "playfully" insult your competition. But I have a friend involved in it and so have sort of been following it against my will, being supportive of works-in-progress for battles and all that.

It seems like constrained drawing competitions are certainly a way to force yourself into being productive (as I discovered when I suddenly found myself in a thunderdome recently), voting biases aside. Perhaps it is simply the idea of having a deadline.

Thoughts?

[Blue]

i had a few sketch battles with friends. No matter how serious we tried to keep it, it always became a comedy. :)

[WingManMedia]

I personally find that compitition helps motivate me to improve. i take the crits and openminded as i can.

[Wertle]

I don't know if it is the competition so much that motivates me as the scenario similarities to having to complete an assignment. If I set my own deadlines it is easy to brush them off, but in some context where other people are depending on me to finish it in some way shape or form, I am more dedicated

[Steinmetz]

so where do we sign up

[Slash]

There's plenty of fighting and trash talking in our very own thunderdome events.

[Blue]

Yup, thats pretty much what the T-Dome is.

[Wertle]

True, but thunderdomes seem to be more focused on picking a theme to illustrate, whereas sketchwar and sketchbattle the theme of the art itself is to make fun of your opponent. Thunderdome trash talk seems to be somewhat of a supplement :)

(off my own topic, Lord Blue, I totally worked in New Haven all last year! I wish I'd gotten on CA earlier, I could have found people to draw with up there!)

[Blue]

You may be thinking of something more like a "pencil-mon" type competition. You have to kill each others monsters by sketching ones which can destroy it. Thats actually a good amount of fun, but it is a competition which goes on forever, or until someone concedes.

(yea there are CA'ers all over here. I'm just waiting for a sketchgroup to start up in the area :) )

[Wertle]

I have never heard of that style of competition, but it sounds like it would be a fun one.

When I refer to sketchwar and sketchbattle, I'm referring specifically to existing competitions (Sketchwar here (http://www.sketchwar.com/index.php?id=6) and Sketchbattle here (http://www.sketchbattle.com/))

[Blue]

Yea those are closer to T-Dome then anything else. :)

[Number_6]

Pencil-mon sounds like fun. I did a sort of star wars themed one with a guy once. I had a jedi, he did a jedi rancor. So I did one with six sabers. I don't remember what he did after that, but I remember drawing the deathstar holding a lightsaber attacking a planet named after him, which he drew turning into a giant robot....

[Pixeldragoon]

Sketch Battle is just mostly Gay Jokes or Anal sex jokes. Nothing really funny. =(

[Wertle]

Number_6, that sounds really fun! I want to do one of those now. I see what Lord Blue means about how they can go on forever, though.

Pixel--alas, that does seem to be the lowest common denominator that people in sketchbattle default to (my friend, Jaster, had a no-gay-jokes policy through his whole run and made it to the sketchwar grand finals, I am very proud of him!)

[Number_6]

Number_6, that sounds really fun! I want to do one of those now. I see what Lord Blue means about how they can go on forever, though.

Pixel--alas, that does seem to be the lowest common denominator that people in sketchbattle default to (my friend, Jaster, had a no-gay-jokes policy through his whole run and made it to the sketchwar grand finals, I am very proud of him!)

BRING IT ONNNNN!!!

Someone pick a theme for us to start with. Rules are we each post one per day. I'll see YOU in the Thunderdome!

EDIT: On second thought, I think we should restrict all our drawings to one theme. That way it's possible to actually win. And you can post more than one image per day, as long as the other person posts between your posts.

[Blue]

it actually fattens your portfolio nicely, so once finals are over i am going to start a couple myself. :)