Facebook Drawing Challenge

I wanted to try something different this evening, so posted the following Status Update on my Facebook page...

...and then sat back and waited. Fortunately the replies began to come in, and after half an hour I had a few suggestions to put to paper. Below are the suggestions I got, along with my corresponding drawings...

(There's always one isn't there...!)



(I'd already drawn some Olympic athletes the other day, so I decided to use this as a chance to draw the Olympic 100m champion, Usain Bolt...)











And that's all folks! I quite enjoyed doing this, so might do it again sometime...

Facebook Doodle: A monkey riding a unicorn with wings

I was a bit stuck for something to draw today, so I updated my Facebook status to "What can I draw...?" and almost immediately got a response from Laura Gray with the suggestion of "A monkey riding a unicorn with wings". So...

Facebook Doodles 3

So, here are the last couple of suggestions from my first Social Networking Scribbling experiment...

Melanie McClure:

STAAAAAAR TREKKKKKK!

Tom Fogarty:
Draw a cock


Thanks to everyone who provided me with suggestions. I might do this again sometime soon...

Facebook Doodles 2

Arina Orlova:
Ignore me!

Facebook Doodles 1

So, today I struck upon an idea. Post the following as my status update on Facebook: "Paul Shinn wants to draw but is finding it hard to come up with something... any suggestions??" and then await the responses.

Holly Abbott:

My dog's cleaning himself! Any good? X


Robert L Webb:

Snails on a big yellow salt box the ones they use in winter to keep the roads fron icing up I saw it not so long ago on the way home it made me giggle irony me thinks... (-_-)

More to come...

(I've also just realised that this is my 100th blog post of 2009. That's already four times as many posts this year than in 2008! Wow.)