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Mystery Art Challenge - Hulk and a...?

Check out the incredible drawings by Peter Nguyen, Ray-Anthony Height, Joel Gomez, Brian Buccellato and Todd Nauck.

At most comic conventions Comic Vine attends, we usually conduct the Mystery Art Challenge. For those that don't know, this involves comic book artist accepting a drawing challenge that will be filmed. Each challenge involves a common comic book character along with a random object.

While the artists do agree to partake in the challenge, they have no idea what it will involve. When you see them introduced and given the challenge, that is the first time they hear the details and they get seconds to come up with their own interpretation.

Because WonderCon 2013 took place during Easter weekend, there had to be an Easter theme. Because Hulk hasn't been used so far, he seemed to be the perfect candidate to go along with an Easter egg.

Hopefully you enjoy seeing what Peter Nguyen, Ray-Anthony Height, Joel Gomez, Brian Buccellato and Todd Nauck came up with. If it wasn't for these guys, we wouldn't have videos like this. Make sure you support what they're working on.

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Nicee, back for more Art Challenges!

My top 3 are:

  1. Ray-Anthony Height
  2. Brain Bucellato
  3. Todd Nauck

Honorable Mention(s):

Peter Nyugen

Joel Gomez

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Great video, Tony! Never stop doing these!

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All the art is amazing. This made me go back and watch older art challenges and I noticed that Gomez like to draw people busting out of things lol.

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@g_man said:

@jaydubya: I use a monopod. It'd be a little hard to flip the cameral upside down. I'd probably smack someone with the monopod.

I like the fact that you're more a practical effects guy, but there's something like post-processing. Will save people from bloody noses and black eyes.

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Ray Anthony Height's made me laugh the hardest. To him goes the victory I say!

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@mucklefluga: As a aspiring comic artist I can tell you for my own characters usually a minute or two. For other characters such as Superman or Batman about 6 to 8 minutes. Then again every artist is different so time my vary.

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These videos are always cool to see. All the guys are crazy talented. I always like seeing Brian doing his coloring.

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This was a great video. Thanks

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Edited By gumflabica

hooray! easter hulk dubstep!

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The best Comic Vine content there is.

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Edited By DonFelipe

Another round of mystery art challenge. Love it! One of the best things on CV. This time my favorite is RAH and his Hulk with bunny ears - nice idea and interesting perspective.

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I like that a lot of the artist used color on there pics. So that's what brain b looks like. I didn't know he could draw also. Cool techno while he was drawing. Joel had the one I liked the most but haieght also had a good imagination. I was really distrackted by that booster gold babe walking behind joel. Where is that money hungry mahmod astar? He probably would not do it because he would have had to have done it for free.

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Ray-Anthony Height = for the Win!

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Edited By gmanfromheck

@jaydubya: I use a monopod. It'd be a little hard to flip the cameral upside down. I'd probably smack someone with the monopod. But this is the perspective you get standing on the other side of their tables at cons. Sometimes going behind them is an option but seems better to keep it all consistent.

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Why not flip the image 180 degrees when they're drawing to get the right perspective?

I tend to hold my iPad upside down when watching the video.

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Todd Nauck FTW!

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These are always awesome and depressing at the same time. I could never imagine being able to draw so well.

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Edited By cbishop

I'm always amazed when some of the artists come up with very similar pictures - like in this one, two artists did the Hulk busting out of an Easter egg. That's just kind of cool.

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Edited By gmanfromheck

@ejalife: I always post the scans in the weekend's Awesome Art Picks article. So you'll see them this Saturday. I also add them to the artists' gallery but just in the regular art section. If you do a video search for 'Mystery Art Challenge,' you should be able to find the others. Or look through the "Events" videos on the video page.

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Amazing watching these guys work.

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@g_man Hey G-Man, remember when I told you at WonderCon that I couldn't find any artists at the WonderCon I wanted to get commissions from? I was wrong. Man, wish I had seen this video first. Or spent more time looking around the artist alley. Darn it.

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Is there a gallery/ies with the drawings from each mystery art challenge? If not, there should be one

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Man I love these videos

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What's up with the dubstep?

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hulk and a xanax

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ohh my most favorite content.

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LOVE Todd Nauck and Ray Anthony Height's sketches!!

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Edited By gmanfromheck

@mucklefluga: It varies. Anywhere from 5-20 minutes. These probably where closer to 10 or under.

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Loving Todd Naucks. Awesome idea guys!

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SO freaking awesome!

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very cool, i like seeing the variation of styles on the art challenges

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Well done, and fun. mmmmmmmmmmmmm, eggs.

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Haha this was a really good one. I liked Ray-Anthony Height's picture the most.

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Yeesssss my favourite type of video from Comic Vine !!!

How long does it roughly take for the artist to draw a sketch?