swarm sketch: collective sketching

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Started as an honors project for college student Peter Edmunds, Swarm Sketch quickly took on a life of its own. From the website:

SwarmSketch is an ongoing online canvas that explores the possibilities of distributed design by the masses. Each week it randomly chooses a popular search term which becomes the sketch subject for the week. In this way, the collective is sketching what the collective thought was important each week. A new sketch begins after one week, or after the previous sketch reaches one thousand lines, whichever comes first.

a few swarm sketches!

The project has been live for 865 days and there are more than 200 sketches in the gallery – some of them truly capture the likeness of the intended word(s).

You have 5 more days to contribute to the Gypsies sketch. Go play.  For more collaborative art fun, check out the links page.

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