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Sketch Swap

Sketch Swap is a fun little online toy that allows you to draw a sketch, and submit it to get someone else’s sketch in return. This little octopus alien fella is what I got.

(thanks, Mr. Blank)

  • http://automatic9.com/ d

    the best site ever

  • http://automatic9.com d

    the best site ever

  • http://www.easternblot.net/blog Eva

    I love drawing with my mouse!
    I drew a duck and I got a Hello Kitty back, which seems an okay swap.

  • http://www.easternblot.net/blog Eva

    I love drawing with my mouse!
    I drew a duck and I got a Hello Kitty back, which seems an okay swap.

  • http://funkymasterm.deviantart.com/ MasterM

    nice site and fun idea
    for only 10 minutes though because then i dont want to draw anymore and I only want to see the drawings others did

  • http://funkymasterm.deviantart.com/ MasterM

    nice site and fun idea
    for only 10 minutes though because then i dont want to draw anymore and I only want to see the drawings others did

  • Lone

    Yeah the ability to see other sketches without having to draw one would have been nice.

  • Lone

    Yeah the ability to see other sketches without having to draw one would have been nice.

  • Lone

    Oh, and I got a Homestar Runner ‘Strong Mad’ for one of mine :) Ill pretend it came from someone on the site ;)

  • Lone

    Oh, and I got a Homestar Runner ‘Strong Mad’ for one of mine :) Ill pretend it came from someone on the site ;)

  • tofu

    GREAT! I drew cube worshipers and got a mutant Pac Man.

    How can I save the sketches I get?

  • tofu

    GREAT! I drew cube worshipers and got a mutant Pac Man.

    How can I save the sketches I get?

  • http://www.awesomeblurry.com/ Lily

    I drew a man yawning and got… confetti? amoebas? popcorn?

    Fair enough.

  • http://www.awesomeblurry.com Lily

    I drew a man yawning and got… confetti? amoebas? popcorn?

    Fair enough.

  • http://commanderkitty.com/ Scotty A

    Haw! I drew one at work, and it came back to me in return when I got home!

    -SA

  • http://commanderkitty.com Scotty A

    Haw! I drew one at work, and it came back to me in return when I got home!

    -SA

  • http://www.disbrotherhood.com/ LobotomyKid

    I drew for half an hour and don’t remember anything anymore.
    Going back to work now :)

  • http://www.disbrotherhood.com LobotomyKid

    I drew for half an hour and don’t remember anything anymore.
    Going back to work now :)

  • lucas

    that site rules

  • lucas

    that site rules

  • Fitz

    Just hit a print screen, and then copy your sketches, or the sketches you get to an image editing program, like photoshop or paint.

  • Fitz

    Just hit a print screen, and then copy your sketches, or the sketches you get to an image editing program, like photoshop or paint.

  • http://www.cehwiedel.com/blogs/traces/?p=619 Kicking Over My Traces » Sketch Swap Makes Me Sad

    [...] (Hat tip: Drawn!) [...]

  • essrog

    I drew a cellphone and got back … a cellphone …

  • essrog

    I drew a cellphone and got back … a cellphone …

  • http://www.anigami.com/jimwich.html JIMWICh

    I gave SketchSwap a couple of tries:

    http://www.anigami.com/jimwich/jimwich_archives/jimwich_1_2_3_2006.html#sketch

    The site’s Terms of Service say that they check out all the submissions, and it might be a more compelling site if they started compliing a gallery of some of the interesting submissions.

    As it is, other than being sort of fun (for awhile) to draw there, I sort of lost interest. You just know there are some interesting drawings there, but you can only see random ones, and it’s too easy for people to submit lame drawings. The dynamic is such that if you want to see a lot of drawings, you need to submit a lot, so the dynamic’s skewed toward not spending much time on the drawing.

    But they say they’re planning on evolving the site, so I’ll check back. The basic idea is cool!

  • http://www.anigami.com/jimwich.html JIMWICh

    I gave SketchSwap a couple of tries:

    http://www.anigami.com/jimwich/jimwich_archives/jimwich_1_2_3_2006.html#sketch

    The site’s Terms of Service say that they check out all the submissions, and it might be a more compelling site if they started compliing a gallery of some of the interesting submissions.

    As it is, other than being sort of fun (for awhile) to draw there, I sort of lost interest. You just know there are some interesting drawings there, but you can only see random ones, and it’s too easy for people to submit lame drawings. The dynamic is such that if you want to see a lot of drawings, you need to submit a lot, so the dynamic’s skewed toward not spending much time on the drawing.

    But they say they’re planning on evolving the site, so I’ll check back. The basic idea is cool!

  • http://www.anigami.com/jimwich.html JIMWICh

    Wow, the URL to my SketchSwap drawings (and what I got in return) got garbled. Maybe because th URL was long.

    Here’s the TinyURL version to the drawings:

    http://tinyurl.com/a9kze

  • http://www.anigami.com/jimwich.html JIMWICh

    Wow, the URL to my SketchSwap drawings (and what I got in return) got garbled. Maybe because th URL was long.

    Here’s the TinyURL version to the drawings:

    http://tinyurl.com/a9kze

  • http://www.anigami.com/jimwich.html JIMWICh

    Yowza! My buddy Mark posted a link to my sketches on Boing Boing and before long I received a wonderful email from SketchSwap co-founder Philipp Lenssen, sending me 15 excellent drawings that they’ve received from OVER 50,000 submissions in just their first week up!

    Cool! Check these out:

    (thumbnails of the drawings Philipp sent me):
    http://tinyurl.com/b5y33

    Philipp said that they’re going to begin screening to choose better drawngs to send back out. These show that they’re getting some excellent ones! I think there needs to be a gallery of interesting ones. It’s a challenge to draw in such a constrained manner, so it’s amazing to see how excellent some of these look.

  • http://www.anigami.com/jimwich.html JIMWICh

    Yowza! My buddy Mark posted a link to my sketches on Boing Boing and before long I received a wonderful email from SketchSwap co-founder Philipp Lenssen, sending me 15 excellent drawings that they’ve received from OVER 50,000 submissions in just their first week up!

    Cool! Check these out:

    (thumbnails of the drawings Philipp sent me):
    http://tinyurl.com/b5y33

    Philipp said that they’re going to begin screening to choose better drawngs to send back out. These show that they’re getting some excellent ones! I think there needs to be a gallery of interesting ones. It’s a challenge to draw in such a constrained manner, so it’s amazing to see how excellent some of these look.

  • http://g30.ontheb.us/?p=574 groove:30 » Blog Archive » Fun With SketchSwap

    [...] Via the wonderfully cool weblog Drawn! comes this neat little Flash application. You can sketch a doodle and then when you can swap your sketch with a random someone else who’s created a sketch. I submitted about an hours worth of doodles, what follows are the only ones I remembered to save. [...]

  • JohhnyBaggs

    I did a lot of drawing and spent way to much time on, not saying my drawnings were cool but what i got back was a mainly quickly drawn scribble

  • JohhnyBaggs

    I did a lot of drawing and spent way to much time on, not saying my drawnings were cool but what i got back was a mainly quickly drawn scribble

  • http://www.sketchplanet.com/ robotjazz

    another website with the sketch concept, by the fabulous yongfook:

    http://www.sketchplanet.com/

    this came out quite a while ago … it doesn’t involve swapping, so you can see galleries of submissions. anyone can submit sketches (with registration).

    everything from penises to portraits at your fingertips…

  • http://www.sketchplanet.com/ robotjazz

    another website with the sketch concept, by the fabulous yongfook:

    http://www.sketchplanet.com/

    this came out quite a while ago … it doesn’t involve swapping, so you can see galleries of submissions. anyone can submit sketches (with registration).

    everything from penises to portraits at your fingertips…

  • tromollo

    Drew a monkey & and got a bunny with wings back, ok i guess.

    My fav online drawing site though is:

    http://www.ratemydoodle.com/

    its so cool, you can actually doodle on other people’s drawings. Has other things like battle arena and galleries, lotsa fun.

  • tromollo

    Drew a monkey & and got a bunny with wings back, ok i guess.

    My fav online drawing site though is:

    http://www.ratemydoodle.com/

    its so cool, you can actually doodle on other people’s drawings. Has other things like battle arena and galleries, lotsa fun.

  • http://llusantronic.blogspot.com/ Llusan

    It’s very nice!

  • http://llusantronic.blogspot.com Llusan

    It’s very nice!

  • Andrew

    I was disappointed when I discovered that they have to approve the drawings first… I can understand why, but at the same time I really liked the idea that I would be literally swapping with the person whose drawing I saw, because then I’d have some idea of the aesthetic of the person I was swapping with and whether they’d appreciate mine.

  • Andrew

    I was disappointed when I discovered that they have to approve the drawings first… I can understand why, but at the same time I really liked the idea that I would be literally swapping with the person whose drawing I saw, because then I’d have some idea of the aesthetic of the person I was swapping with and whether they’d appreciate mine.

  • http://crob.ch/art crob

    Je me suis appliqué, mais j’ai reçu des trucs assez nuls :-(

  • http://crob.ch/art crob

    Je me suis appliqué, mais j’ai reçu des trucs assez nuls :-(

  • confused

    dis is weird n crap n u wont want dis on ur website coz u onli do da gd 1nes! :S Lame asses

  • confused

    dis is weird n crap n u wont want dis on ur website coz u onli do da gd 1nes! :S Lame asses

  • confused

    dis is weird n crap n u wont want dis on ur website coz u onli do da gd 1nes! :S Lame asses

  • confused

    dis is weird n crap n u wont want dis on ur website coz u onli do da gd 1nes! :S Lame asses

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  • Trullimaus90

    …. makes fun!^^