Other Great Drawing Projects:
The Big Draw (UK)
The Vancouver Draw Down took its inspiration from this amazing annual drawing project, launched in 2000. Organized by the Campaign for Drawing, The Big Draw takes place across the UK every fall. This year it runs from October 1-31, 2011.
From their website:
The Campaign for Drawing has one aim: to get everyone drawing! Why? Drawing helps us to think, invent and communicate – regardless of age and ability. The Campaign took its initial inspiration from the visionary Victorian artist and writer, John Ruskin.
Held throughout October, The Big Draw is the Campaign's flagship programme and aims to bring communities together in fun, creative ways. It encourages cultural venues [throughout the UK] to use drawing to engage visitors of all ages with their collections and exhibitions. Schools are invited to show how drawing can be used for learning across the curriculum and to involve parents in these activities. More than 1,500 venues take part annually, from nursery schools to national museums. Last year 20 countries joined the UK in organising events. The Big Draw is the place to find the latest news, including information on the 2011 Big Draw theme, planning events, and how you can get involved.
Visit the Big Draw's Draw and Fold Over project, to take part in this wonderful online social drawing game. Players take turns to draw part of a body, then fold it over, leaving only the bottom of their drawing to inspire the next player. When the head, torso, legs and feet are done, everyone gets to see. You can forward your drawing to a friend by email, and invite them to participate.
From their website:
The Campaign for Drawing has one aim: to get everyone drawing! Why? Drawing helps us to think, invent and communicate – regardless of age and ability. The Campaign took its initial inspiration from the visionary Victorian artist and writer, John Ruskin.
Held throughout October, The Big Draw is the Campaign's flagship programme and aims to bring communities together in fun, creative ways. It encourages cultural venues [throughout the UK] to use drawing to engage visitors of all ages with their collections and exhibitions. Schools are invited to show how drawing can be used for learning across the curriculum and to involve parents in these activities. More than 1,500 venues take part annually, from nursery schools to national museums. Last year 20 countries joined the UK in organising events. The Big Draw is the place to find the latest news, including information on the 2011 Big Draw theme, planning events, and how you can get involved.
Visit the Big Draw's Draw and Fold Over project, to take part in this wonderful online social drawing game. Players take turns to draw part of a body, then fold it over, leaving only the bottom of their drawing to inspire the next player. When the head, torso, legs and feet are done, everyone gets to see. You can forward your drawing to a friend by email, and invite them to participate.
Draw by Night
Draw by Night is Vancouver’s only bi-monthly drawing party. It's free and open to the public! You can bring your own drawing materials or use what they have there.
From their website:
If you are wondering what it is we do, usually we set a theme, stretch out tons of paper and everyone draws together. You can collaborate or you can do your own thing. What you do is up to you. These drawings are not kept and it’s not important to keep them. They are documented and archived within the pages of this site and then we release them to the wild. We are more interested in just drawing with you and less about keeping every little scrap. It’s more freeing to do it this way, wouldn’t you agree?
During our events, we encourage participants to use twitter to discuss the event and post their photos / work to the facebook page. Regardless, everything gets documented and posted onto the facebook page. Our whole event is about engaging and networking a drawing community. We rely on social networks as the glue to our community. It is also a way for our participants to have their voice be heard. Often, they will contribute ideas that are implemented into the next event. Without these existing networks, you wouldn’t get this type of immediacy. Draw By Night is a drawing party that started to engage like-minded creative people from various disciplines, get them in a room together and ask them to draw under one theme. The energy is always high and the result is always unexpected.
From their website:
If you are wondering what it is we do, usually we set a theme, stretch out tons of paper and everyone draws together. You can collaborate or you can do your own thing. What you do is up to you. These drawings are not kept and it’s not important to keep them. They are documented and archived within the pages of this site and then we release them to the wild. We are more interested in just drawing with you and less about keeping every little scrap. It’s more freeing to do it this way, wouldn’t you agree?
During our events, we encourage participants to use twitter to discuss the event and post their photos / work to the facebook page. Regardless, everything gets documented and posted onto the facebook page. Our whole event is about engaging and networking a drawing community. We rely on social networks as the glue to our community. It is also a way for our participants to have their voice be heard. Often, they will contribute ideas that are implemented into the next event. Without these existing networks, you wouldn’t get this type of immediacy. Draw By Night is a drawing party that started to engage like-minded creative people from various disciplines, get them in a room together and ask them to draw under one theme. The energy is always high and the result is always unexpected.
Crowdsourced Seed Drawings
Check out Brooklyn artist Clement Valla's crowdsourced Seed Drawings—a spectacular example of online collaborative drawing.
Thousands of online participants were invited to copy small, simple line drawings onto a grid to create a larger artwork. Valla issued the following directive: “The drawing must be as similar as possible to the neighboring drawings.”
Thousands of online participants were invited to copy small, simple line drawings onto a grid to create a larger artwork. Valla issued the following directive: “The drawing must be as similar as possible to the neighboring drawings.”
Epic Exquisite Corpse
Epic Exquisite Corpse is the largest collaborative drawing to be created. It's an interactive website that can accommodate the work of as many as a million contributors. Conceived by British artist Xavier Barrade, the Epic Exquisite Corpse website features a simple, easy-to-use interface. Check it out and add a drawing to this fascinating project.
Papergirl Vancouver
In the style of American paper-boys, rolled art pieces will be distributed to random passersby by Papergirl Vancouver volunteer bicyclists in the streets of Vancouver.
Although not strictly a drawing project, Papergirl believes that art should be accessible to everyone—a value shared by the Vancouver Draw Down team.
Originally developed by Berlin artist Aisha Ronniger in 2005, the Papergirl project quickly spread to dozens of other cities across the world. An exhibition of the donated artworks Papergirl will be distributing in Vancouver will take place at the Roundhouse Community Centre from August 22- 26, 2011.
To donate artworks (deadline August 15, 2011), or volunteer with this exciting project, get in touch with Papergirl Vancouver via their blog, Facebook, Twitter or email.
Although not strictly a drawing project, Papergirl believes that art should be accessible to everyone—a value shared by the Vancouver Draw Down team.
Originally developed by Berlin artist Aisha Ronniger in 2005, the Papergirl project quickly spread to dozens of other cities across the world. An exhibition of the donated artworks Papergirl will be distributing in Vancouver will take place at the Roundhouse Community Centre from August 22- 26, 2011.
To donate artworks (deadline August 15, 2011), or volunteer with this exciting project, get in touch with Papergirl Vancouver via their blog, Facebook, Twitter or email.
Sumi Ink Club
The Sumi Ink Club is a Los Angeles-based drawing collective founded in 2005 by Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck. Their website includes a printable guide to making your own Sumi Ink Club.
From their website:
The group holds regular, open-to-the-public meetings to execute topsy-turvy, detailed, collaborative drawings using ink on various surfaces. In each of its permutations, Sumi Ink Club uses group drawing as a means to open and fortify social interactions that bleed into everyday life. Sumi Ink Club is non-hierarchical: all ages, all humans, all styles.
From their website:
The group holds regular, open-to-the-public meetings to execute topsy-turvy, detailed, collaborative drawings using ink on various surfaces. In each of its permutations, Sumi Ink Club uses group drawing as a means to open and fortify social interactions that bleed into everyday life. Sumi Ink Club is non-hierarchical: all ages, all humans, all styles.
