Nightmare of the Week - part 2

**Manuel_Calavera** · June 29th, 2007, 05:55 AM

Nightmare of the Week Activity - part 2

TOPIC:
The Most Terrifying Kind of Death

Requirements for this topic:

1. Frighten or shock us
2. Cause of death must be explained
3. Blood and gore is welcome but not obligatory

Deadline: 13th of July, Midnight

General rules for this activity:

- make your artwork as scary, violent and gory as possible
- concept and efforts are most important, quality of image is secondary
- you may focus on characters or environment - or both - depending on the current topic
- all medium acceptable
- description required
- trashtalk is welcome, the more the better
- no sweet pink cartoon-style pictures, give us some blood instead
- most shocking images get extra points
- one entry only
- don't vote for yourselves- we know where you live and which school your children go to...

**Timmy the Turtle** · June 30th, 2007, 09:11 PM

this is so cool

**Manuel_Calavera** · July 1st, 2007, 09:24 AM

Give you some ideas. Have you seen 'Seven' with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman ? There was fat guy who was ridden to a table by murder and killed with enormous amount of food. Terrible dying fed like duck.
Have you seen 'Saw' ? Maybe Jigsaw was a psycho killer or maybe he was brilliant minded setting up people was killing themselves in most terrible way. That is most horrifying when death comes from within…
Or maybe you’ve seen Evil Dead where Ash tried to kill his alter ego cutting him for hundred pieces or ass kicking priest from Brain Dead?
Horror has many faces …

**Grim Reaper** · July 3rd, 2007, 06:12 AM

Kinda slow this week....

Hopefully people are busy drawing hehe
But seriously- after a good round 1 this one should be even better!
So where are you?

**Grim Reaper** · July 3rd, 2007, 11:23 AM

Motivate be giving good example they say.
If that's the case here's my entry for this week's competition.
As all medium are acceptable -and we make the rules-, this time it's pencils and paintshop (for blood only).

CAUSE OF DEATH: RAZORS

**Johanna Saarenpää** · July 4th, 2007, 07:42 PM

I just discovered Nightmare of the Week... I will probably not participate this round, but I may do it if there will be any more of these in the future. I'm very fond of the idea of a weekly horror related activity.

**Manuel_Calavera** · July 4th, 2007, 08:48 PM

Dying as a victim of a madman who keeps his prey alive as much as he can , drugging him, supplying with fresh blood to prolong his agony. Ridden to the wall in deep cellar he is waiting for death to come, prying for it.
Cause of dead – pain due to extraction of many internal organs.

**Grim Reaper** · July 5th, 2007, 09:36 AM

SirJohanna- congratulations for discovering NIghtmare Of the Week, now why wait, when you can just start drawing now?

Hope to see you participating soon!
Manuel Calavera- I see this as someone who's drowned and is floating in muddy waters of the river full of corpses.... maybe not drowned but some crazy folks are chucking dead bodies in the river to get rid of them..and instead the corpses swell and float up to the surface...
Well, that's how I see it.

**grenogs** · July 6th, 2007, 06:50 PM

hey i just looked at the deadline date, friday 13th, lol, very appropriate.
but does that also mean we get to do another one straight away for saturday 14th also? lol

**Trashy** · July 6th, 2007, 09:28 PM

I like the idea of doing something horror based every week. Hmmm...hope this activity does well.

Cause of Death- Devoured by green flesh eating bugs.

**Grim Reaper** · July 7th, 2007, 01:05 AM

Nice one Trashy! Green flesh eating bugs, eh? Someone's got the munchies!

**Vincoid** · July 10th, 2007, 01:28 AM

Might post a sketch or something later today, goota think of something first. Maybe something Hostel inspired, I loved that movie

**VirtualSurreality** · July 13th, 2007, 01:07 PM

Damn, I was on vacation and didn't have any time for this one. Guess I'll have to wait for the next one.

**The Crazy Dude SRD** · July 13th, 2007, 05:59 PM

Hi,

I have here for your consideration, the fate of a man who got drunk and fell asleep with a cigarette in his mouth, suffering the death of being burned alive.

In actuality if I had found this sooner I would have worked more on this but I did this in about two days after trying to figure out what sort of death would have been the more terrifying, I came up with Being stoned to death, Boiled alive in a vat of oil, drowned, being tortured and then resesitated only to be tortured again... then I thought of it being more of a surreal sense (which I really wanted to do but time again became a factor...) Perhaps being comatos for the rest of your life, or being completely ignored by any other living being... ah well, I'll probably end up painting those in my time... anyways; good luck with the NotW; I hope it becomes as successful as the other ...of the week ideas!

**VirtualSurreality** · July 19th, 2007, 12:15 PM

If I would have known that this one was going to stay open this much longer, I would have done something for it

**Manuel_Calavera** · July 19th, 2007, 03:26 PM

It's still open like an empty coffin in unburied grave....

**life on the sofa** · July 20th, 2007, 08:16 AM

there was a woman who died ..fucking a horse...the horses...sex organ(

) went so far into her it punctured her stomach thats pretty bad..(who fucks horses in the first place its just WRONG

eeeww)

**grenogs** · July 20th, 2007, 08:44 AM

maybe this should be called "nom" nightmare of the month

**Grim Reaper** · July 20th, 2007, 10:00 AM

Chill out. Technical difficulties caused delay.
Soon we will be back on track.

**VirtualSurreality** · July 20th, 2007, 10:29 AM

Any ideas as to what the next topic is going to be?

**Flipnastywebby** · July 27th, 2007, 08:34 PM

this actually seems like a great idea for a weekly concept
are the entries for what to do next open to everyone?

slainte!

**Manuel_Calavera** · July 28th, 2007, 07:07 PM

Little update above.
It’s still open. We’re waiting for more entries.

**grenogs** · August 5th, 2007, 06:35 AM

This thread looks cool, and it could have plenty of potential. Especially with how populer horror has become in films in the last couple of years. But its lacking something to attract people. maybe im wrong, but i think the majority of people on this whole site come here becouse their interested in having a carreer in art and design, whether it be gaming, concept design or even illustration. So just thinking out loud but, maybe you could have a theme to these weekly briefs, something that will give it a more work oriented feel. Eg.. A horror theme such as create an image of someone being torturered or mutilated, but it also has to be suitable for a record album, or dvd, cinema poster, or even a few images that would fit into a story board, suitable for a game or movie.

**Manuel_Calavera** · August 5th, 2007, 10:40 AM

I guess you're right grenogs.
And more - people don't like open topics like this one or like last topic on EOW (Miniature city). In my opinion those topics are great because gives lot of freedom for interpretation and imagination. But most people don't like to think too much and prefer having strict brief and clear direction what to paint and how.

**grenogs** · August 6th, 2007, 08:25 AM

i think the miniature city topic could have been an excellent one to do, it had so much scope for imagination suitable for anyone, whatever their style. and the only reason i didnt do that one was becouse i was planning to do the angus topic in chow, but even that never happened then due to my own work and pure lazyness last week.

. And i agree, for the majority of these forums, especially the ones which have been running for a while, the more open the topic the better.(these are specially good for people with artist block) However i think some of the newer ones need a little direction in them, such as this one, just to get people to start entering them. Because the sad fact is that people like to stick to what they know, and where their most comfortable. But i think it would also be nice to have one of these forums where the briefs are very strict, where there has to be certain measurements, or image has to be in a particuler shape, etc... like most proffesional work environments often are.
Take people out of their comfort zones and they will often learn so much more.

**grenogs** · August 6th, 2007, 09:33 AM

I guess one of the most scariest things that could happen is to wake up one morning, or night, and to discover that your tied or chained to a bed, total at mersy by the person or persons that done this to you.

But then to discover that the bottom half of your legs had been practicly torn away would really panic you. And once you got over that second more terrifying shock, then the final and more terrifying brain overloading, nauziating stench of realization realy kicks in. The creature or should i say creatures that coused this ultimate carnage onto you were infact maggots, and they are slowly but surely eating their way up your body, literally bite by bite.

**Grim Reaper** · August 6th, 2007, 10:36 AM

Okay Manny, I think this is enough entries for this topic. Could you organise the poll pretty please?

I'll prepare the next round as soon as the poll is on.
Thanks for participating everyone.
Grenogs- great job man, great job!

**grenogs** · August 6th, 2007, 11:12 AM

thanks grim, lol.... if i new you only wanted 1 more in order to go onto next round, i would have posted it ages ago, damn thing has just been laying around in my hard drive collecting static,