We've seen a couple other examples of collaborative art, including Drawball Collaborative Graffiti Online and the One Million Masterpiece. The difference with the You Draw Poster, is that you can actually purchase this piece of collaborative art for your home!
The You Draw Poster is a humanities project which aims to produce a book of 50,000 individual drawings submitted online by members of the population. The site web owners proclaim that these, "Three fantastically rich and diverse posters that will keep you scrutinizing for ages. A celebration of the milestones of one hundred, two hundred and three hundred thousand drawings posted on Youdraw. A salute to the tens of thousands of artists that are helping build this collective project".
By becoming the happy owner of a poster you will contribute to keeping the Youdraw project alive and well. Plus, it only costs $17.
Key Themes Behind This Trend
- Collaborative Art
- Opportunities for other collaborative art projects that allow individuals to contribute to a larger shared piece of art.
- Crowdsourced Creations
- Opportunities for other crowdsourced creations that allow for a diverse range of unique contributions to come together in a shared piece of work.
- Art for Purchase
- Opportunities for other collaborative art projects that allow individuals to contribute to a larger shared piece of art that can be purchased by others.
Where This Applies
- Artistic Community
- Opportunities for artists to collaborate on large scale projects with each other and with community members in a shared online space.
- E-commerce
- Opportunities for e-commerce sites that specialize in selling unique, collaborative pieces of art created by a diverse range of artists.
- Online Communities
- Opportunities for online communities that allow for crowdsourced contributions to a shared piece of work, such as art or writing projects.
