Drawing Day 24hr marathon on SecondLife

The SecondLife Drawing Day event has begun. SecondLife members should not miss out on checking out this event. Details about the SL event can be found here.

Ina Centaur will lead a twenty-four hour "art marathon", where she held the vigil and drew roughly 4 sketches per hour while rallying Second Life artists to participate in Drawing Day.

June 6 - It's World Drawing Day today

If it's June 6 where you are, then Drawing Day has arrived!

For half of the world, Drawing Day has already begun so - Happy Drawing Day!

We've just launched our online gallery where you can keep track of drawings as they're being uploaded to the various participating websites - Check out the gallery here

The most important part now is to Start Drawing! Everything you need to know about how to participate is available here.

The second, and just as important step is to spread the word! Email all your friends, tell them about the Drawing Day website and how to participate. This is a world-wide event and the biggest strength we all have as artists is our voice. If you own a blog, blog about the event. If you're a twitter user, then please tweet each time you create a drawing with links to your art and our website. You can also follow us on Twitter, which is a great way to stay updated about Drawing Day over this weekend.

Official Corel Painter Magazine supports Drawing Day

The latest issue of the official Corel Painter magazine (issues 30) has hit the shelves and has a great feature on Drawing Day. If you see the magazine in stores, be sure to check it out!

Official magazine website: http://paintermagazine.co.uk/

Drawing Day press release

Our latest Drawing Day press release was sent out today. If you know of any bloggers, editors, website owners or press then please share this article with them:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/drawingday/2009/prweb2453924.htm

As always our strongest power as artists is our voice - so shout loud and let everyone know about Drawing Day.

Get updates on Drawing Day via Twitter

If you're a twitter user, make sure you follow us on the weekend of June 6 - Drawing Day weekend.

On Drawing Day, many of our participating websites will be tweeting via the Drawing Day twitter account. We will be posting Drawing Day updates, posting links to outstanding drawings and events that we hear about. It will be a really exciting weekend and I'm especially excited about the opportunity this brings to our event.

It's not often that there is a high concentration of art being created in a short period and this is definitely a great way to follow progress of the event.

Drawing Day on YouTube - group video

A group of artists have banded together to create a Drawing Day promotional video on YouTube. Obviously artists who are part of the YouTube community are excited about the day and this video is a great example of how a few people with some passion can have a strong voice.

Check out the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mg39ZGxAQo

It will be interesting to see just how much attention this video gets - it has a great community message and does a good job of representing what Drawing Day is all about.

2009 Drawing Day - 50 Days to go!

We're just about at 50 days to go. Our first of a several press releases was announced today and we're getting very excited about 2009 Drawing Day. Several high profile magazines have shown interest in writing articles about the event and we're expecting more buzz this year with the growth of many social neworking groups such as Facebook.

The latest press release:
http://www.prlog.org/10217472-2009-world-drawing-day-aims-for-one-million-drawings.html