Collaborative Brainstorming Group A - self generated narrative

Collaborative Brainstorming Group A - self generated narrative

Nick Harris  //  You can find me in any other forums I trawl under the username Nickillus, the same way my own site is labeled. Hope to catch you all out and about in those spaces too. It's an honour to know you guys.
Website -
http://nickillus.co.uk
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http://www.beehiveillustration.co.uk/
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http://www.imaginefx.com/
http://www.itsartmag.com/index.html
http://www.conceptart.org/
http://www2.ambientdesign.com/forums/
http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-sketchbook-pro/
http://www.cgsociety.org/
http://www.paintermagazine.co.uk/index.php

Apr 27 / 4:39am

Tag-Team-Tale-Tellers

Randy is right that this has gone awfully quiet and in the spirit of of it not fading away completely - how about this as an interim idea?  Something that could be taken quite lightly and fun but might lead to a different sort of end product??  I'm aiming for a potentially low impact project in terms of affecting other committments.  Least effort - most output hopefully - but that doesn't mean it couldn't elicit some wonderful artwork . . .
Idea - four (?) artists (A,B,C,D) come up with an initial sketch/drawing to kick off a tale - (perhaps a few lines of prose to accompany and influence the tales direction - or not???). A then passes the sketch to B, B to C etc to provide the next drawing. A bit like the game 'consequences'. In the ninth week it is up to the initiator of each tale to wind up the sequence as they deem a fitting end. (Could be 13,17,21 . . . weeks if that was preferably longer?).  I would suggest that the first and last of each sequence need to have more 'wow factor' - something I hope might happen in the natural course of them being done by the artist whose tale it effectively is credited to, and that old ego thing being put to good use (?).
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At the end of nine weeks that would provide 36 drawings for a publication of some sort.  I'm still in favour of self publication in keeping with the low impact theme for now. 

Format? - Blurb (http://www.blurb.com as an example, because I've seen some of their products and they're not bad) - smallest format is 7in square (18cm) - is quite a nice size for such a project - we could put out for about £11 plus p&p and is marketed online through their shop (see below).  That gives the option of 7x7 or 7x14 inches to play within.  Again, this is just a basic example.  Next format up is a choice of landscape or portait versions of 10x8ins (20x25cm) - prices starting at £10.95 for softbound 20-40- pages.

Page Count Softcover Hardcover,
Dust Jacket
Hardcover,
ImageWrap
20-40 UK £6.95 UK £12.95 UK £13.95
41-80 UK £8.95 UK £14.95 UK £16.95
81-120 UK £10.95 UK £17.95 UK £19.95
121-160 UK £13.95 UK £21.95 UK £23.95
161-200 UK £16.95 UK £24.95 UK £26.95
201-240 UK £19.95 UK £27.95 UK £30.95
241-280 UK £23.95 UK £30.95 UK £33.95
281-320 UK £26.95 UK £33.95 UK £36.95
321-360 UK £30.95 UK £35.95 UK £39.95
361-400 UK £33.95 UK £37.95 UK £41.95
401-440 UK £35.95 UK £38.95 UK £41.95

It may/most likely will need pulling together with rewritten prose and some layout adjustments but should give the raw material to put an art based item together quickly for self publication. No great initial outlay - simple profit sharing agreement between the artists. Should be possible to fit it in a busy schedule as a fun diversion and can be marketed through our various websites for starters as perhaps the first of many ???


No I haven't being sniffing mushrooms or anything else, before you ask.  This may well be the daftest notion since sliced custard, but I'm willing to give it a go with three or more similarly minded funsters, if they can be found.  This isn't set in stone, or even in any of that custard for that matter.  Flexibility is my friend.  Talk to me, if only to tell me where to take the long walk. 

 

I'll copy this across to the thread in the main pound to try and gather more bodies.