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.
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.
Vancouver Drawn
For three weeks in July and August, Vancouver-area galleries and museums come together to host a special series of exhibitions devoted to the medium of drawing. The only celebration of its kind in Canada, this unique multi-venue event encompasses an exciting program of free lectures, gallery tours, exhibition openings, artist talks, and more. For more information visit: www.drawnfestival.ca
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.
99 Amazing Speed Drawing Videos
Video walkthroughs are always a great way to acquire something new. You can see the whole creation process and gain some experience at the same time. In speed drawing the usual long drawing process is compressed into just a few minutes. If you have ever wondered how it’s possible to draw realistic digital paintings so quickly, check it out and discover 99 awesome speed drawing videos.
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.
Graphite Artistry
Roger Watt is an exquisite graphite artist currently based in Vancouver, BC. He writes, "The physical process of putting marks on paper with graphite is distinctly personal as it is a link to my dad who first instilled in me the pure joy of drawing. Having long had a fascination for the effects of light on industrial metal, my drawings increasingly explore its atmospheric properties in everyday situations."
50 Absolutely Stunning 3D Street Art (Paintings)
3d Street Art, often known as 3d chalk art is 2-dimensional artwork drawn on the street itself that gives you a 3-dimensional optical illusion from a certain perspective. It can be very breathtaking, realistic and at the same time captivating once you get the angle correct. And creating one is certainly through and challenging as you are creating a realistic 3d view out of a 2d painting.
