Thursday, March 29, 2012

DrawSomething is coloring my world!

I have my daughter to blame for my latest obsession that is taking me back to my childhood days of drawing stick figures.  I can't draw and it's apparent in this new phenomenon called, DrawSomething.

This is a free app for the iPhone.  It draws on your creativity as you try to paint a picture with your fingers  that your friends will be able to identify.  They get the chance to watch you draw the picture, and then using a selection of letters they try to write the correct answer.

The free app comes with the primary colors of black, blue, red and yellow.  If you want to get really high-end you can buy other colors such as brown.  I figure my stick figure will look just fine in black!

This really is addicting. I now check my phone just to see if anyone is playing with me.  My niece, my daughter and my son's girlfriend have now seen my shortcomings first hand.  I think this may be cheating but I sometimes add text to the drawing. I mean, how are you to draw the word, "Lady Gaga"?  I thought I was very clever drawing a stick figure with a "Meat Dress" and a blue veil covering her face. Of course, just to be sure my drawing was guessed correctly, I added the words, "Poker Face" and "Bad Romance."

I hope over time I will get better at drawing. Right now it's tricky just to decide if I want to use a thin line or a fat line. My fingers don't always do what my "right brain" wants it to do.

Oh well, its' fun!  And, who doesn't want to occasionally go on a magic carpet ride? That was the drawing I recently guessed for the word, "Aladdin."

So ready the drawing board, I'm on a mission to color my world one stick figure at a time!

Happy days,




Sylvia