Artists Set to Create One Million Drawings on June 4th – World Drawing Day

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As June 4th approaches, artists worldwide quietly sharpen their pencils in anticipation for Drawing Day 2011. In its fourth year, the event is set to infuse online art communities and social networking with one million drawings.

• Seattle, WA (PRWEB) May 17, 2011

As social networking grows, artists have more power than ever to showcase their artwork with the world on Drawing Day 2011. The web is now the platform of choice for artists both amateur and professional to showcase their artistic skills. Websites such as Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, deviantART and a group of emerging online art communities are helping bring artists together for what is set to be the biggest worldwide drawing event ever. Artist and designer, Mick Gow and a small group of fellow artists had a vision almost 4 years ago to make some noise worldwide for the sake of art – and Drawing Day has been slowly growing ever since.

It’s quite possible that Drawing Day 2011 may reach that goal. “Social networking is more powerful than ever, and once the word spreads, artists will embrace the event,” says Gow. The event has already had a great start with a successful Drawing Day project on the popular fundraising website Kickstarter.com. “We launched our Kickstarter project to raise money for a book to document Drawing Day, and we hit that target pretty quickly,” he proudly adds. The book will showcase drawings submitted on Drawing Day and is part of what’s new with the event this year. The official event website drawingday.org showcases the official t-shirts, downloadable posters, and includes all the information anyone needs to participate.

It’s free and simple to participate and you can do so on your own, with a group of friends, or at your local school or community center. If you would like to participate at a local event and can’t find one, you can simply download a poster from drawingday.org, post it on a notice board and organize to meet people in your community. All people need to do is arrive with a pencil and paper (or a computer if you’re a digital artist). Once you have completed your drawings, simply upload them to drawingday.org or to any of the participating websites listed.

Technology is definitely helping the Drawing Day mission. The website has created an online drawing application so people can draw directly on the website – and it works on an iPad. Since its launch, the iPad has been embraced by many artists as a digital and portable drawing tool. These artists are set to bridge the gap between traditional and digital methods of drawing and Drawing Day hopes to take advantage of this.

“Drawing Day is for everyone. You can draw using the latest technology, or use the event as an excuse to turn off the computer and spend time with family and friends using nothing more than paper and pencil,” says Gow. Whether you’re nine or ninety-nine years old, Drawing Day is hoping to remind people of the joy of drawing.

If you would like more information about Drawing Day 2011 or want to be involved either as an artist or to help promote the event, contact Mick Gow or visit the official event website at drawingday.org.

Official Drawing Day T-Shirts are here!

The Drawing Day T-Shirt competition that was held has finished and winners have been announced on the Redbubble blog here.

The 3 official T-shirt designs are shown below:







If you are looking to purchase one of the above T-Shirts, you can make a pledge on our Kickstarter project (this also gets you one of your drawings in the KickStarter 2011 book!). You can also purchase directly from the Redbubble website via the winners announcement page.

2011 World Drawing Day launches kickstarter to aim for one million drawings

World Drawing Day is world-wide art event that encourages people around the world to drop everything and draw. To get prepared this year, they have launched a kickstarter event to help reach its goal of one million drawings.

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PRLog (Press Release) – Apr 05, 2011 – June 4, 2011 is Drawing Day - one day devoted to drawing. Mick Gow and some fellow artists have organized the event in the hope that it will encourage the world to create one million drawings in one day.

"The world needs to stop and remember that childhood joy when we picked up our first pencil and created our first piece of art. Drawing Day is all about that feeling of creativity and imagination", says Gow. The event doesn't dictate where you draw or how you draw, but participants are encouraged to share their art with the world and spread the word about the event. One way to do this is by posting drawings created to the official website at http://www.drawingday.org or by submitting drawings to any of the participating websites listed, which include popular sites like Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, or DeviantArt.

With two months until the event, the organizers have started a fundraiser on the popular funding website Kickstarter (http://www.kickstarter.com). The Kickstarter project is all about creating a book to document the event. The Kickstarter project is located at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mixart/june-4-2011-d ...

A collection of artwork submitted to the Drawing Day website will be published in this full-color book that showcases highlights from the day. The book will showcase artwork ranging from high-quality masterpieces to simple and inspirational drawings from kids. The book will be a visual and artistic story that documents the day and will illustrate the imagination of the world on this day.

People are asked to make pledges that cleverly include options for artists to ensure one of their drawings is included in the book. There are other pledges that also include getting an artist profile in the book, and even Drawing Day T-shirts. There is also a pledge to purchase the actual book when it’s published.

If you'd like more information about Drawing Day 2011 or want to learn more about getting involved with the book, contact Mick Gow via http://www.drawingday.org/

The Drawing Day book is trying to get a kickstart

We're raising money to create an official Drawing Day book filled with drawings from the Drawing Day event. To make this happen we need your help. The book will showcase artwork ranging from high-quality masterpieces to simple and inspirational drawings from kids. The book will be a visual and artistic story that documents the day and will illustrate the imagination of the world on this day.

You can guarantee to get your drawing in the book if you make a pledge to our project on Kickstarter.com

We understand that the book will be only a sample of all drawings collected on the day, so we have created various pledges to give people options to be published in the book. These range from a guarantee that your drawing will be included in the book, to an artist profile in the book. If an enormous amount of pledges are received (we can only hope), we will create multiple editions of the book.

With the current goal, we aim to create a full color 8" x 10" book that is approximately 200 pages. The number of drawings per page will vary and range from 1 to 9 drawings per page.

Whether or not you are interested in the book - please pledge money to the Kickstarter event - all dollars donated will be used to help promote Drawing Day.

The Drawing Day T-Shirt competition is open for entries

The Competition

We are hosting a T-shirt design competition for Drawing Day this year over at Redbubble. 3 designs will be chosen to be official Drawing Day T-shirts.

RedBubble artists have always been great supporters of Drawing Day and this year the organisers are offering you the chance to create a Drawing Day design which will appear on Drawing Day merchandise.

Judging / Voting Criteria

The entries will be shortlisted by the community through the voting process. The final three winners will be selected from the top 20 by RedBubble and the Drawing Day organisers. RedBubble and Drawing Day will select final winners at their sole discretion. The official logo is available for inspiration but you are not required to reference this in your design. Designs must be uploaded using the RedBubble t-shirt template and the preview should be set to a white background. If it’s not on a white tee, it’s not getting in!

Rewards & Prizes

First, Second and Third Prize: Your design will appear on Drawing Day 2011 merchandise and you will each receive a $100 USD RedBubble gift voucher. Fourth and Fifth runners up will each receive A $50 USD RedBubble voucher.

For all the details visit the drawing day competition here: http://www.redbubble.com/groups/redbubble/challenges/32370-drawing-day-logo-challenge

We're getting ready for Drawing Day 2011

This year is going to be a big year for the art world and a big year for Drawing Day. 2011 will be the fourth year our event has taken place. We've always had big dreams for Drawing Day, and have mostly been limited by our voice. As always it is the voice of everyone participating that will give our event the exposure it needs. However, this year we will be throwing more resources at the event in hope that it will get a big kickstart and get in front of the eyes of the world.

We believe that artists deserve a day like this, and the world needs to be injected with more creativity. So many lives can be touched by the simple notion of picking up a pencil and drawing.

Get your voices ready to start spreading the word.

Drawing Day live twitter feed

We have added a live twitter feed to the Drawing Day homepage so we encourage you all to make sure you tweet any time you create a drawing and post a link to your drawing making sure you include the hashtag #drawingday.

You can also view the live feed here:
http://twitter.com/#search?q=drawingday%20OR%20%22drawing%20day%22%20OR%20%23drawingday

If you would like to post this feed to your own website to encourage people to promote Drawing Day then feel free to use the code:


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