In 1947, Ten Comic Strip Artists Were Asked To Draw Their Characters Blindfolded
A comic strip artist will end up drawing the same characters so many thousands of times, that you’d figure they could draw them with their eyes closed. But could they really? In 1947, Life magazine decided to find out by challenging 10 contemporary comic strip artists to do just that – draw their characters with their eyes closed.
The results, needless to say, are hilarious. Most of the artists were remarkably successful at re-creating individual features of their characters, but they put them all in the wrong places, like a Picasso painting or a botched Mr. Potatohead toy.
More info: LIFE Magazine | Blogspot (h/t: master_mayhem)
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I think making fun of efforts few of the rest of us could come close to is silly
zo zie je dat ze echt wel kunnen tekenen en de gum niet nodig hebben :P
This is brilliant. They should be large-scale color painting.
This is really interesting.. I feel some of these cartoonist, created their toon from what they came up with in their heads vs from what th
i can't even get the pencil on a page when blind folded how can they draw?
pretty good some are obvious what you would exspect from blind folding but Gould and Freyse were awsomely close above exspecttions
They all did pretty good. But it made me miss those comics of my childhood.
great that someone engaged that many artists in this experiment. looks great!
A lot of those were actually a lot better than i thought they would be
I think making fun of efforts few of the rest of us could come close to is silly
zo zie je dat ze echt wel kunnen tekenen en de gum niet nodig hebben :P
This is brilliant. They should be large-scale color painting.
This is really interesting.. I feel some of these cartoonist, created their toon from what they came up with in their heads vs from what th
i can't even get the pencil on a page when blind folded how can they draw?
pretty good some are obvious what you would exspect from blind folding but Gould and Freyse were awsomely close above exspecttions
They all did pretty good. But it made me miss those comics of my childhood.
great that someone engaged that many artists in this experiment. looks great!
A lot of those were actually a lot better than i thought they would be
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