Cory's Drawing Game (Selected Works)

As self-absorbed as blogs can get, the best posts to me are ones involving the talent and bright ideas of others. Today's featured artwork is just that -- a collaborative text and illustration narrative brought into being via the game Cory introduced us to at the Stained Glass Factory circa sometime last year.

The instructions are pretty simple. If you've got 5 players, each person should start out with 5 index card-sized sheets of paper stacked on top of each other. Once everyone agrees to start, each player independently (and privately) writes an aphorism, common saying or quotation on the first piece of paper in ink. They then pass the whole stack counter-clockwise (I believe -- variations may exist) and the player then interprets his lefthand neighbor's text with an interpretive illustration. After only a few minutes, the stack is again passed, and the illustration re-interpreted and a new caption given (although the possibility certainly exists that the original caption may be recognized in the drawing, I've yet to see the same caption duplicated on subsequent cards).

After the players have received the stack they started with, the players go around the room and -- frame by frame -- reveal the story they've constructed together.

The four sequences I'm unveiling today were completed by Toby, Dave, Stu, Jenn and I, but Cory's imagination is easy to recognize in the overall spirit of the pieces.

I was going to post them one day at a time through the rest of the week, but I think it's best to keep them together. Besides, if you want to see more you can always come up with them yourself. Well, you and a few other people who are up for playing a cool drawing game.

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