Character Telephone, a Drawing Game For Artists

I recently met up with my old friend Mike Hales to try out a new drawing exercise I call “Character Telephone”. The goal is for each artist to spend ten minutes drawing a new character, then swapping their pages and redrawing each others character in their own unique style.

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The timer isn’t super important, but I think it keeps the challenge moving nicely. I’m sure you could do a similar challenge with more artists by passing the pages around and encouraging each artist to only reference the most recent version of the character. That way the character sort of evolves as it gets passed around.

Two drawings of a mustached man in a t-shirt that simply says "Sports". The drawings are similar in concept, but have different styles because the one on the right was drawn by Doc and then redrawn by Mike.
Two drawings of a unique character. The character is a pair of jeans with a floating robotic head above the waiste. The drawing on the left was drawn by Mike, then redrawn by Doc on the righthand side of the page.
Two drawings of a robot holding a cat. The drawing on the right was originally done by Mike, and the drawing on the left is the version drawn by Doc.
four small sheets of paper on a table. Each paper has two similar drawings on it, but each drawing is in a different style. So there are two drawings of a guy drinking coffee, two drawings of a robot, etc.