Acrodoodle! Great online drawing app and sharing website!
Acrodoodle is an online drawing game created in a little notebook years ago for making times of boredom more interesting. A four letter acronym would be randomly selected - usually by looking at the first four letters of the first four words of whatever piece of literature could be found - whoever was involved would then take turns drawing any kind of illustration to depict the meaning of the acronym with a four color pen. The title was then added to the drawing and passed around. Everyone seemed to have a great time drawing and sharing ideas so we decided to try it out online.
The idea seems a little strange at first. Why would I want to draw a weird picture to illustrate a nonsensical idea built on an arbitrary acronym? First off doodling is a great way to spend some time even on your own. It will build your art skills and help your creative juices to flow. Second, being able to share your doodles with friends and others can be amazingly addicting and fun. And lastly, there is something magical about everyone having the same base to start from. You understand other artist's struggles in creating a great idea and celebrate their successes when they strike gold.
The online drawing app is a fairly simple tool to keep with the four color pen that was originally used in the game (although there are thousands of colors). This keeps the playing field fairly even for all users. Having a powerful tool would give the artists in this world an unfair advantage in creating amazing painting like art that you might hang on the wall. That being said, the tool is powerful enough to make amazing art if desired.
The idea of the site in not necessarily to create amazing art. We simply want to provide a spark for the idea and a canvas to get the idea out. With the two components of each piece (the idea and the art) there is equal weight for each part of the idea. The art might be simple, but the idea can be amazing. The idea might seem a little weak, but the art can shine it up and make it wonderful.
Once your idea is created and ready to share you will submit it to the world. Each user can upvote your doodle, share your doodle, favorite your doodle and comment on your doodle. As the owner of the piece you are able to delete any comments made on your art. Your doodles will all be saved (as well as any doodle of others that you have favorited) on your personal profile page where you can easily keep track of the best doodles on the site. The ability to choose any of your own doodles as your profile pick also adds a nice personal touch to your comments.
Acrodoodle is an online drawing game where we want to encourage creativity, sharing and of course drawing. We hope to provide a source for that creative spark that can sometimes elude the creator or artist, a source to generate new ideas and a place to draw online and share those ideas and doodles with friends and others online.
Come to Acrodoodle for a daily source of fun and creativity that you can share with everyone.
