ART BY COMMITTEE
and THE CHADES CHALLENGE

Above is my contribution (yeah, I had a little help from M.C. Escher) to one of my favorite blog games, James Gurney's Art By Committee. James challenges his readers to illustrate random excerpts from old sci-fi manuscripts. If you're into fun drawing challenges, you should check it out!

If you have some weird aversion to sci-fi texts, you can always contribute to my weekly drawing game, the Chades Challenge. Next week's challenge is

SWEATY ROBOTS

Everyone is welcome to participate and design their own perspiring automaton; just post a sketch on your blog and leave me a comment with your blog address. I'll post the oodles of doodles here on the Translation each Friday, along with the subject of the next challenge, so make sure to check back to see what everyone has done.

Thanks to everyone who contributed this week to Chades Challenge XX: Cheshire Cats. Here are the twisted tricksters for your viewing pleasure:

Everett "Jabberwocky" Downing

Stephan "The Caterpillar" Bugaj

Nes "Alice" beth

Vi-Dieu "Bill the Lizard" Nguyen

Emma "The White Queen" Coats

Austin "The Mad Hatter" Madison

Art by Committee, Round 2
Time for round 2 of Art by Committee, a game where a passage from a science fiction manuscript is taken out of context and illustrated. This week's caption was: "I never understood why you were with him in the first place." More excellent submissions at the Gurney Journey.

My take on James Gurney's 'sketchblog' challenge to illustrate the caption: "Starships or no, Khalians weren't high tech by human standards."