Suggestions for Monthly Challenge Brief

Title: A Fantastical Beast

Brief: In light of the new Harry Potter film, pretend you are adding a new page to the Fantastical Beasts and Where to Find Them encyclopedia with a creature you recently discovered!

Charlotte wrote:

RIP Carrie Fisher :'(

much as I love the harry potter and fantastical creatures suggestion I'm thinking something princess Leia related. maybe from her years between movie #6 and 7 (assuming I got the numbers right)

How about creating a new Star Wars galaxy heroine in her honour? The name could be arrived at through one of those "make your own Star Wars name" things where you take letters from your name and your parents names to come up with a new one (obviously using Carrie's).

There was a method of doing that which seemed to give quite good results, with a bit of massaging - taking the first syllable from your first name, with the first syllable from your surname, then the first syllable from your mother's maiden name and the last syllable from your father's surname.

So Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher give Cafis Reyner

Em... I think thats a fantastic idea and am going to commit to do it as part of my new year resolution to spend more time on art this year even if we don't do it as a challenge. Seconded!

I always enjoyed challenges with a more evocative title as opposed to a "depict this...." type brief. I think they open up the challenge to a great deal more interpretation. A few suggestions:

The Awakening
Slumber
Journeys End
The Use of Weapons (avoiding any reference to a certain novel by Mr Banks)
The Half Man
Navigator
Organic/Machine

A few abstract titles might be fun too:

Beach
Mind Breaths
Essence

How about more along the theme of the recent(ish) Magazine cover?

Movie posters
Book Jackets
T-Shirts?