/r/ICanDrawThat /

5,400 artists for ONE YEAR!

In my lifetime I have learned how to draw two things: one is a sailboat, the other is the pokemon Magnemite. The other day, I was forced to go to the Macaroni Grill (bleh) and the whole time I just sat and watched my artistic friends draw everything their imagination could fruition, while I just sat there drawing sailboats and pokemon. Then I overpaid on some terrible macaroni, went home, and then came to the realization that there is no god.

It sucks not being able to create the images in your mind's eye. It's not that I am not creative, because I am balls deep in creativity, I just don't have the talent to draw the monsters inside my head (unless the monster was a Magnemite riding a sailboat).

/r/ICanDrawThat is a subreddit for me. I have no talent in the drawing department, so watching individuals with all the talent in the world create is fascinating to me.

/u/tptbrg95/ and /u/yummyyummers/ took the time to chat with me about their subredditr/ICanDrawThat/ is a wonderful subreddit, filled with wonderful people. Their subreddit has exploded with growth after a few comments there were Bestof'd, and now the subreddit is at a great ratio between requesters and artists. If you've got an idea and you ask nice enough, you will get some extremely talented individuals busting their ass to make sure your ideas come to life. What's better than that? Not the Macaroni Grill. That's for sure.

Seriously. That place sucks balls.

1. What inspired you to create this subreddit?

tptbrg95: A little over a year ago, /r/Iama was getting filled with "I am a bored artist that will draw anything". I thought that was kind of annoying, so I made this place.

2. What should people expect to find on r/ICanDrawThat?

tptbrg95: Drawings of lots of different things.

yummyummers: A community of skilled and novice drawers taking requests, as well as people asking for random or personal requests. Oh, and two great mods :)

3. What is the requester/artist subscriber ratio on your subreddit?

tptbrg95: According to stattit, we've had 937 submissions. Using the search function, there have been approx 90 offer posts. Judging simply by the posts, it's about 1:10 artist to requester ratio. However, that's not taking into consideration all the artists that fulfill [request] posts rather that submit their own.

4. How many requests would you say gets fulfilled a day?

tptbrg95: I'm not totally sure but I just counted about 30 posts in the last 24 hours.

yummyummers: Depends on if there are offer requests or not. Then we might get 40 a day, including the request posts. Edit: mmmm probably more like 30

5. Your favorite drawing someone has made on your subreddit?

tptbrg95: /u/Delivery_of_Rule_34 made this awesome picture. It's my desktop background.

yummyummers: My favorite drawing is the same as his.

6. I would like a picture of my username riding a muskox into the field of battle, with my pirate sword drawn. I realize this is not a question, but I would like to see it happen.

tptbrg95: I'm no artist but I'm sure someone would draw that for you!

yummyummers: Hey make a post and see what happens! Don't forget [request] or the bot will remove it as spam

7. Favorite part about being a moderator for this subreddit?

tptbrg95: The last month on this subreddit has been the best. We were fairly inactive, with only a few posts per week, and then 2 comments here hit the front page of bestof only 8 days apart, and the community size grew tremendously. This last month has been kind of like a rebirth for r/icandrawthat. We've added a bunch of stuff, header of the week contests, a new mod (/u/yummyummers) who added a lot of new CSS stuff, and we've gotten tons of new people. It's just been really fun to see the transformation the subreddit's had recently. Just for some context, here's the traffic stats before and after the bestof-ings.

yummyummers: Practicing my CSS skills! And meeting new people I wouldn't have otherwise met.

8. Anything else you'd like to say? To your subscribers or people interested in joining your subreddit? The floor is yours.

tptbrg95: Consider fulfilling some request posts before submitting an offer post. I see a lot of request posts get unfulfilled. I'd like to give a huge thank you to everyone who's submitted content, you guys are what keep this place running.

yummyummers: Thank you to the drawers of ICanDrawThat! Being a recently new mod has really opened my eyes to how fantastic this subreddit and its subscribers are!

Thank you to /u/tptbrg95/ and /u/yummyummers for taking the time to chat with me about their subreddit (even though those jerks wouldn't draw me a picture), and thank you Macaroni Grill for being so easy to hate.

^Namaste.