Blight

Drawing With Strangers

Recently I've been a regular on Groupboard - a Java applet based whiteboard and chat portal. It's neat seeing how creative people can get together and create some pretty cool stuff. Genre of content ranges from the obscene (hint: another regular is called "WetFart", and he likes to do "self-portraits") to the whimsically cute, to the trendy-street-art of graffiti tags. Actually if you want to see some amazing Internet street artists, you can join in on the action here, at Cybertagger.com.

Honestly, trying to create art in a vacuum sucks (ha I kill me) and I've drawn more in the last week than I have in the whole last year. It's much more stimulating to watch others draw, learn from their styles or just have something cool happen (like the odd drawing above).

Yes people come and smash your virtual sand-castle from time to time, but that just forces you to draw quicker, and with wanton abandon. Go crazy! Create fast, don't think, just do!

posted by Blight @ 12:04 AM