On your mark ... get set ... drawer

December 17, 2006 7:06 AM

Drawer Geeks is an illustration challenge founded by Greg Hardin. Alternate Fridays, a group of 25+ professional animators, illustrators, cartoonists, and designers riff on a given fictional character. This past week's theme was Santa Claus. Among archived themes, I particularly liked: Medusa and The Grim Reaper. (via diminished Responsibility)
posted by madamjujujive (33 comments total)

HEYA, TPS!
posted by cortex at 7:16 AM on December 17, 2006

GREAT POST, A+++++, WOULD CLICK ON AGAIN!!!!!
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 7:36 AM on December 17, 2006

This is a terrific site. Thanks for another fine post, madamjujujive!
posted by maryh at 7:38 AM on December 17, 2006

Great, now I'm going to spend the entire rest of my day clicking through these pictures. Luckily, I was never going to amount to much anyway. Wow, this stuff is creative.
(Special props to them for including a Harry Potter section. My day is made!)
posted by Help, I can't stop talking! at 7:42 AM on December 17, 2006

This is fantastic.
posted by django_z at 8:00 AM on December 17, 2006

Absolutely wonderful!
posted by jonson at 8:05 AM on December 17, 2006

way cool.
posted by Jikido at 8:43 AM on December 17, 2006

Very cool. Makes me want to start drawing again!

Or trying to draw, anyhow . . .
posted by washburn at 8:49 AM on December 17, 2006

Love the Medusa and Grim Reaper threads! Thanks mjjj.
posted by nickyskye at 9:19 AM on December 17, 2006

A++++
posted by i_am_a_Jedi at 9:30 AM on December 17, 2006

Wow, this is the best art thread I've seen a while. Fantastic, once again, mjjj. Metafilter loves you, but you knew that.
posted by arcticwoman at 9:31 AM on December 17, 2006

Nice one, mj³. BlueSky Studios has a similar thing going as well.
posted by Zack_Replica at 9:59 AM on December 17, 2006

This is excellent, especially all the non-superheroic characters. All the ones for Captain America, frex, were depressingly similar. And don't get me started on Thor.
posted by ursus_comiter at 12:31 PM on December 17, 2006

Fantastico! I only wish there were an easy mechanism to order prints of some of these...because I am in love with some of them.
posted by dejah420 at 1:17 PM on December 17, 2006

HA, cortex. Why do all pictures that look like Liza Minelli also look like me???? So weird.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 1:45 PM on December 17, 2006 [1 favorite]

Fascinating
posted by Cranberry at 2:48 PM on December 17, 2006

Superb. I particularly enjoyed the Catwoman page - they seemed to have lots of fun with that one.
posted by dodgygeezer at 2:53 PM on December 17, 2006

You had me at the Grim Reaper.

This is totally the most awesomest.
posted by grapefruitmoon at 3:56 PM on December 17, 2006

OOOOOH!!!!! Vikings!!!!!! I could just about asplode with joy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(I imagine the Icelanders around me will even find it as amusing as I do.)
posted by grapefruitmoon at 4:02 PM on December 17, 2006

Best of Web.

Best of Best of Web.

Could only be Bester of Best Of Web if the images were available in 1920x1200.

FANTASTIC FPP. Thanks!
posted by effugas at 4:38 PM on December 17, 2006

Pretty cool.

Although with all the superheros in there, I'm surprised they didn't do Wolverine.

...for that matter, no Superman either. Supergirl, but not Superman. Huh.
posted by Target Practice at 5:48 PM on December 17, 2006

Wait, Superman is there. Durr. Now I feel dumb.
posted by Target Practice at 5:54 PM on December 17, 2006

This is what MetaFilter is for. Thank you.
posted by ColdChef at 7:11 PM on December 17, 2006

I love this. Brilliant idea to just give something simple and collectively known to a range of talents and see what happens.
posted by kingfisher, his musclebound cat at 7:26 PM on December 17, 2006

Unfortunately to say, the pirates page are to be future avatars...
posted by Samizdata at 8:01 PM on December 17, 2006

What ColdChef said. This is my favorite post of the year, by a large margin. Thanks, mj3, you've really found something awesome here.
posted by jonson at 8:36 PM on December 17, 2006

I absolutly love this. Fantastic post.
posted by Jilder at 12:56 AM on December 18, 2006

I'm delighted to see y'all are enjoying this site as much as I did. It's fun to see talented people strut their stuff.

Zack_Replica, thanks for that bluesky challenge link - another great site. I love the animal hybrids. They should have a new page posted sometime today, cool.
posted by madamjujujive at 4:14 AM on December 18, 2006

omg I love that page of animal hybrids! Brilliant!
posted by nickyskye at 9:28 AM on December 18, 2006

Incredible!

Heh.
posted by and hosted from Uranus at 10:53 AM on December 18, 2006

This site is worth it if only for the Bizarro page.
posted by Eideteker at 5:38 AM on December 19, 2006

Suck point: If one tries to open a page in a new tab in Firefox, it always opens the Smurfette page.
posted by JHarris at 2:59 PM on December 21, 2006

BotW forshizzle.
posted by elfollador at 11:23 AM on January 3, 2007