At most comic conventions, we do the Mystery Art Challenge. The artists that agree to take the challenge have no prior knowledge of what they'll have to draw. The way it works is, it's always a familiar character along with a random object. The artists then have seconds to try to come up with a creative idea. Because so many love taking part in the challenge, they've started indirectly challenging each other.
At New York Comic Con, we had seven and a half artists taking the challenge. Usually it's five or six. Peter Nguyen, Chris Giarrusso, Marcus To, Derek Fridolfs, Daniel HDR, Todd Nauck, Brian Buccellato (and...?) all took the challenge. There were even others that expressed interest like Agnes Garbowska, Ryan Stegman, and Michael Walsh. It was a crazy show and it sadly just didn't work out with them.
The challenge this time was the Flash...and a banana. Pretty much everyone said, "Everyone else is probably going to draw Flash slipping on a banana..." You'll have to watch to see how many did go that route. There was also a little twist at the end.
We decided because there so many that took part, we split the video into separate parts with a massive one as well.
Here's the entire challenge:
Peter Nguyen has the tradition of always going first. That's just how it went so now if he's at the show, he's always the first we seek out.
What happened here was Clay Mann wanted to do the intro. They're buds and while you won't see him on camera, you can hear and see him give Peter a hard time.
Chris Giarrusso is always willing to take the challenge. He always just jumps right in. He's done eighteen challenges.
Marcus To returned to the Mystery Art Challenge. This was his second time with the first being Black Widow and a Garden Gnome.
Derek Fridolfs is getting to be a MAC veteran. I believe this was his sixth time.
Daniel HDR loves doing the challenges. Since he's in Brazil, he can only take part when our paths cross at certain shows. This was his third time.
Todd Nauck pretty much always does the challenges as well. At WonderCon, he stopped by to drop off some commissions and take the challenge. He's close to Peter's number with seventeen under his belt.
Brian Buccellato often takes the challenge as well. Something pretty interesting happened during this video. Did you catch it right away?
That is it for the Mystery Art Challenge for 2014. It's pretty likely we will not be attending any more shows this year. We'll have to wait until 2015 for the next one.
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