Mr Squiggle

April 28, 2006 7:05 AM

A duel between two artists. One artist supplies a squiggle, the other turns it into a drawing, incorporating the elements of the squiggle. Hence this becomes this and this becomes this. My favourite - before and after.
posted by primer_dimer (23 comments total)

Upside down! Upside Down!
posted by Basalisk at 7:14 AM on April 28, 2006

The original Mr Squiggle.
posted by uncanny hengeman at 7:15 AM on April 28, 2006

Hurry up! Hurry up!
posted by uncanny hengeman at 7:16 AM on April 28, 2006

(Love your work, Basalisk.)
posted by uncanny hengeman at 7:17 AM on April 28, 2006

Wow, what a find. I especially liked the body art (on the challenge that said "poo" at the top, no less) and the Edward Lear poem. Thanks primer!
posted by GooseOnTheLoose at 7:30 AM on April 28, 2006

I read about this in the paper earlier this week. So cool.
posted by slimepuppy at 7:38 AM on April 28, 2006

Wow. The Owl and Pussycat series is tremendous. The whole thing is good.
posted by jacquilynne at 7:50 AM on April 28, 2006

This is a great game to play with kids.
posted by caddis at 7:55 AM on April 28, 2006

I believe it was: Everything’s upside down these days. But yeah, Basalisk and uncanny hengeman.
posted by tellurian at 8:04 AM on April 28, 2006

Wow, that's fantastic.
posted by arcticwoman at 8:15 AM on April 28, 2006

quite impressive. that ape if excellent.
posted by Busithoth at 8:18 AM on April 28, 2006

Anyone remember Bonnie Mitchell's "chain art" collaborative project (back in the early 90's) ?

I can't find it any more.
posted by surplus at 8:23 AM on April 28, 2006

See also: Eat poop you cat.
posted by leapfrog at 8:28 AM on April 28, 2006

Ha, I used to play this game with a friend in high school ALL the time... this is what some of us country folk did to amuse ourselves before them newfangled compewdders came along.
posted by Billegible at 9:17 AM on April 28, 2006

My favorite is definitely this becoming this.
posted by rafter at 9:38 AM on April 28, 2006

Love the mandrill.
posted by obol at 9:43 AM on April 28, 2006

We introduced this concept into a game of pictionary last year, slightly modified - made it ... difficult.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 10:58 AM on April 28, 2006

Wow, this is spectacular. Loads of fun!
posted by digitalis at 11:33 AM on April 28, 2006

like photoshop tennis, only better! awesome.
posted by geeky at 1:21 PM on April 28, 2006

Brilliant!
posted by jne1813 at 1:37 PM on April 28, 2006

super cool.
posted by Blingo at 2:47 PM on April 28, 2006

Like Billegible I grew up in a small country town and used to do this with a friend in High School during advanced calculus lectures...passing papers back and forth. We used to do entire comics in this style sometimes too which made for large pieces of papers with squiggles all over the place.

Also did a lot of the game where one person draws one panel of a comic, followed by the other person drawing the next panel. Good times...

Thanks for the great link!
posted by rfbjames at 3:14 PM on April 28, 2006

Very cool. I need to start doing this with my friends!
posted by kosher_jenny at 4:00 PM on April 28, 2006