You remember Draw Force right? It’s a drawing challenge blog created by myself and a few friends. Yeah, we kind of got too busy for it. But the core members of the force had a meeting last week and decided to kick it back into gear. A mission a month is what we decided. Not a lot, but more that what we’ve been doing. And so Mission 016 was born: Space man.
I decided to go with a movie poster approach. Once I settled on that I had to come up with a tag line, which necessitated a story, albeit a vague one. But now I keep finding myself thinking about all the possibilities of this story. Who is this guy? What was his mission? Who is he fighting? Lots of ideas.
This is how stories are born and why I need to make time for drawing challenges like Draw Force.
January 25th, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Sweet! I forgot about Draw Force! Lookin’ forward to seeing more as the months go by. (Believe me, I understand how these sort of projects can fade away)
January 25th, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Awesome.
January 25th, 2010 at 4:41 pm
OH man Jake that is fantastic. What makes it really great is the summary below him. It really makes you want to know what it’s all about. What a great creative kickstarter.
January 25th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
It was in the news that Clubbitonium was too expensive to mine there anyways. Why should anyone stay on a cold rusted rock too costly to maintain a living there? What’s so special?
January 25th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Like the slightly skritchy look to the figure. Reminds me of a story from Heavy Metal in the 80’s. With your abundant free time, are you going to do up a story?
Oh, where did the Mars image come from?
January 25th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
You writing the script yet
January 26th, 2010 at 11:24 am
Looks like a sweet story!
January 26th, 2010 at 1:47 pm
That’s an animated movie right there!
January 26th, 2010 at 6:09 pm
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I would say you’re off to a good start.
January 26th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Is it your job or your nature that actively puts yourself in situations to breed creativity? I love it!
January 26th, 2010 at 9:29 pm
Good question there. I have the job that I have because of my nature.
January 27th, 2010 at 10:57 am
love the movie poster compositoin of the illustrstion it looks great. Also wanted to mention that I went to my kids bokfair at their school and surprised to see Missile Mouse as one of the books they have for sale. Needless to say I had to buy it. IF not for my kids then for myself. Great stuff. Did you aproach Scholastic or did they approach you. Would love to hear the story behind that.
January 27th, 2010 at 10:01 pm
great piece. Looks like a Kubric film. I think its about time for the dark side of Jake Parker to emerge:)
January 28th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Great job! Can anyone collaborate with the draw force?
See ya
February 1st, 2010 at 1:10 am
Do work son! Freaking awesomesauce.
February 7th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
you should take a look at Copic SP fineliners. Replaceable tips. Refillable inks. Probably cheaper in the long run. IMHO much better feel/flow than Microns too.
Good luck with the book.
February 7th, 2010 at 10:05 pm
This definitely looks like it’s very interesting. I’m sure that if Draw Force found itself on DeviantArt, it would keep on going even without the lead guys.