Our new community drawing project is for all ages and is a quick way to share a little imagination and whimsy. We’ll do one each week for the next few weeks and then use your feedback to plan its future. Ready?

Here’s how it works.

1. We’ll provide three words/elements/things.
2. You (or your kids, or your very clever hamster) draw an picture combining all three.

(Drawings can be as simple or elaborate as you like. If you need help getting started, watch Brady’s drawing tutorial for ideas.)

Then, share the image at your preferred locale:

+ on Instagram, use #SCdrawwithme and tag @seriouscreatures
+ on Facebook, use #SCdrawwithme and tag @seriouscreatures
+ or Twitter, use #SCdrawwithme and tag @seriouscre

Post anytime during the week; Brady will be watching the feed and will comment as often as he can. (Please note: we can only see your drawings if your feed is public.)

On Friday, Brady will share his own contribution and when possible, post a video of it coming together.

(Don’t forget to peruse other’s drawings and share words of encouragement! We’re always more fun together.)

And as always, send us your thoughts and suggestions. We’d love to make this as fun as possible for everyone!

This week’s items to incorporate are:

Go!

Have you seen the “drawovers” over at our Instagram feed? We’ve been having a lot of fun with them so I thought I’d share more about them and let you know how to join the fun!

Not long ago Amber and I were exploring a “wadi” here in Oman. We say a wadi is a dry riverbed, but “riverbed” insinuates the presence of an actual river, something that doesn’t exist in Oman or anywhere in the Arabian Peninsula. A wadi is actually just the path that rainwater uses to find the ocean on the rare occasion that it actually rains.

Anyway, we were exploring a wadi near some ancient ruins, and exclaiming again how much this place looks like Tatooine, the desert planet Luke Skywalker is from in Star Wars.

As a surprise, I took Amber’s Instagram from that day, added a few Jawas and droids, and Instagrammed it myself.

And there it was, my first ever drawover.

I quickly found myself wanting to dive in again and again. I loved the difficulty of trying to match the colors of the picture and make it look as real as possible as well as how it provided a palette for some new kinds of creativity.

Eventually other people invited me to draw on their Instagram pictures, too, and this is where #SCdrawover really began.

Check out the full collection over at our Instagram feed!

Wanna play along?

If you’d like your Instagram to be considered for a drawover, just tag @seriouscreatures and #SCdrawthis to the instagram photo. I’ll try to get to as many as I can!

Hints for good SCdrawover submissions:

1. Choose a photo with a bit of empty space. Some room for wonky goes a long way toward a fun drawover.
2. A prominent “subject” to play off of. Take a look at previous drawovers to get a feel for this. A person or a plate of cookies is an obvious subject, but a cave opening and an airport setting work just as well.
3. Something you think would be fun!

Submit away! I can’t wait to see what we come up with together.

*Original Photo Credits from above, clockwise from upper left: @ambertheblack, @purplehousecafejh, @bwdaskam, @squarerootof9