DO Try This At Home
Posted By Teeni on November 19, 2010 |
Most of you know that I love to play games both here on this blog and in real life. Well, TGH and I had a load of laughs over this last impromptu game we played and anyone can play it. There are hardly any rules and a whole lot of creativity. The only supplies you need are some paper and writing implements and a timer. This is great to play with kids. Go ahead and use some of those kids’ write-on and erase pads if you like to save paper. You can use a camera to save anything awesome that comes out of this. We actually did this a couple of months ago and the pictures still make me laugh today.
So, all you need to do is set everyone up with some drawing implements and then come up with a theme to agree on. The theme can be a scene, an object, a situation, whatever. But I will tell you that the more open you leave it, the better. Once everyone has agreed on a theme (or you can have each person take a turn coming up with a theme) you then have one minute to draw it. Each person just draws whatever comes to mind with that theme. Here are some of the results that TGH and I had.
The first theme was, “Hamsters.” Photos on the left are mine and the ones on the right are TGH’s (click to make bigger).
As you can see, we both liked the idea of the little rodents being inside their cages. TGH added much in the way of architecture for his hamsters but obviously didn’t care about their health and well being as he provided no food or water for the little guys. No wonder they are so much smaller than mine.
The next theme was, “Zoo Scene.”
It’s interesting that we both chose to include the monkey exhibits in our artwork and all I can say about TGH’s elephant is that he is clearly suffering from a sinus infection.
The next theme was, “Scene from a Video Game.”
I wonder what is says about us that I chose to depict Mario innocently chasing a mushroom across the screen, while TGH went in the other direction and chose to depict Donkey Kong violently trying to mow Mario down with giant drums of oil? Hmmm.
The next theme was, “Car.”
Well, isn’t this nice? I depict a nice safe scene, complete with lines on the road, bumpers on the car, a traffic light, and a child, safely strapped into his car seat the back seat of the vehicle. TGH obviously shows no regard for safety, only being interested in gadgets like antennae, turbo scoops, and tires that are almost guaranteed to be a road hazard. Remind me not to get into a car with him any time soon.
The next theme was, “Castle.”
Well, well, well, it looks like we both included little flags on top of our castles! But that, my friends, is where the similarities end. While I have opted to depict a strong fortress capable of fending off the mightiest of foes, TGH has created a torture chamber for a poor damsel in distress. Not only that, but his castle suffers from shoddy workmanship - those bricks just don’t look like they could hold up to much. But I guess they wouldn’t have to since he went and left his drawbridge wide open for attack. Sheesh.
The next theme was, “Picnic.”
As you can see, I decided to take a lame subject and make it exciting by choosing to include radioactive mutant gargantuan ants, advancing to devour the goodies left out by unsuspecting nature lovers. All I have to say about TGH’s picnic is, “boring.”
The next theme was, “Camping.”
This is just typical. The theme is “camping” but somehow TGH interpreted it as “beach.” You can probably recognize one of his shoddy little sand castles in the lower right corner. I had to ask him what the things at the bottom of the picture were and he said, “Those are our feet. We are laying on towels under the sun and that is all you can see of us in the picture.” Note to self: I draw a pretty good looking campfire and TGH can NOT draw feet.
The next theme was, “Amusement Park Ride.”
You can see here that I’ve decided to go with an innocent classic, the carousel, complete with realistic horses. But TGH has taken this theme to depict a ride so horrible that it has to be enclosed in a building so you can’t see the terror you are about to witness until you are trapped inside after waiting for hours in long lines to get in. It’s so bad it has to have a warning on it.
Finally, the last theme was, “Draw Your Anger.”
Again with the misinterpretations. I drew my anger as a physical dark cloud shooting lightning bolts out of it on either side. I’m so creative. TGH thought I said to draw the SUBJECT of my frustrations and therefore drew a self-portrait.
If any of you try this at home, and I highly encourage it, I’d love to see what you come up with. Enjoy!
Hugs,
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