just the other day my BF and i were inturrupted while playing D&D by our dorktastic friend and his woman. i was tearng unfinished and declaired "PHAILURE" pictures from one of my sketchbook and he took one and said EXSQUISIT CORPSE!
perhaps i'll get some of the ones we have done and i'll post em.

I want to play!  But if I do, the art will not quite be up to the standard of the beauts above.  When I was eight, I drew chocolate chip cookies by making ovals and stabbing them with the pencil.  Things haven't changed much since.

From the site:

An Exquisite Corpse wrote:

"Game of folded paper that consists in having a sentence or a drawing composed by several persons, each ignorant of the preceding collaboration...[eg]..."the exquisite/corpse/will drink/the new/wine"--excerpt from the 1939 Abridged Dictionary of Surrealism, as copied off the wall at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Not the best explanation, but enough to get the idea.

I have to say satyreyes, that is a perfect description of it.  And you gets an internet for those awesome mspainting skills!

Thank you   I do love creating art (read: stick figures) and doing "image manipulation" (read: cutting and pasting mustaches onto supermodels' faces) in MS Paint.  I'm too lazy to learn Photoshop, and Paint is just so easy to use.

Tell you what: let's do an MS Paint edition of Exquisite Corpse.  Who wants to play?

Here's how this'll work.  I've drawn an unfinished picture.  Below is the bottom part of the image; I've "folded over" the rest.  Take the bottom part as your top and use MS Paint to create the next piece, being careful not to substantially alter the part you're given.  DO NOT POST YOUR WORK; instead, PM me a link to it.  I'll then post the bottom part of your picture to the thread for the next fingerpainter to expand.  We end when I say we do -- and I'll post the fruit of our collective unconsciousness.

Don't worry about your artistic skills.  If all you can do is click the "paintbrush" button and wiggle the mouse around, that's fine, provided you're drawing something.  Don't worry; my art sets the bar pretty low (if you're a pole vaulter), or pretty high (if you're a limboer).

The width of the virtual canvas will be 400 pixels.  It can be as deep as the artist wants, but I suggest no more than 250 pixels.

Ready?  Here's the starting point:



Who wants to go next?  Please post to let us know, so that we don't have two people trying to create the same piece!

Last edited by satyreyes (03-29-2007 10:55:23 PM)

When we did this in our art class, the entire class contributed to a list of words.  We were told that we had to use 5 of those words from the list in our piece/to inspire our piece, etc.

I found the words "exquisite corpse" a lot more interesting than most of the words on the list, and like most of my art projects, I was inspired by Utena.

original
unfinished digital remix

Just thought I'd share that alternate way we did it. (One of the words was elephant, btw.)  I think it's probably a half-assed sort of method, but since we did each have to turn in individual projects and it was a largish class, any other way probably wouldn't have worked.

Last edited by rhyaniwyn (03-30-2007 02:25:08 PM)

Hinotori wrote:

Oooh. I love Exquisite Corpse. D: And I'd totally be up for an MS paint version.

Just to be clear, are you volunteering to make the next piece?  If so, start from the piece I posted above

Hinotori has completed his/her piece!  The bottom:



Who will step up and create the next piece?  As before, begin with the piece above, and PM me with a link to your finished picture.  If you'd like to crop it yourself, send me that link too; otherwise, I'll happily crop it for you.

Last edited by satyreyes (03-30-2007 07:34:37 PM)

ZOMG Thank you.  I loves me exquisite corpse *_* Perhaps I can participate after Romanticide?

EDIT: Pm has been sent.

Last edited by Drukqs (04-01-2007 12:21:04 AM)

Can I dibs after Drukqs, if that's okay?

Drukqs has put together his corpse segment!



Morosemocha, revolutionize the world for us.

OOOH! OOH!!! I WANNA PLAY!!!

>___< I get dibs after whoever...