Would you like to come back to my place and see my etchings?

Who remembers Etch A sketch? Hours of fun drawing indescribable pictures, claiming that the strange cubic blob that you’ve been toiling over for the past 20 minutes is in fact a picture of your Dad asleep on the sofa? I do!

In a moment of internet boredom I though I’d check out what sites there are offering the experience online and I have two very different but firm favourites, well I only looked at two, but even if I’d looked at 10 these would still have been my favourites.

OK first up is the “keeping it real” Online Etch a Sketch. This site is true to the original in that what you see is what you get – static screen with simple cursor line drawing feature. The movement is a little slow but overall a nice, perfectly satisfactory simple sketch. See my masterpiece below.




Second site in my Etch A Sketch quest was the all more advanced and feature rich Create Fun With Your Sketches. To be honest there is just too much to tell you about, but in essence the site is more colourful, interactive and the sketch movement is more fluid. Thanks to this I found myself taking on a more Cubist direction, (in case you’re completely art illiterate, Cubism was a 20th century avant-garde art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music and literature, ahem…thanks Wikipedia ;-)

3. I think you can all agree that this is far better! Good, OK that’s job number one on my busy PR to do list finished.
   
   1. Successfully complete Etch a Sketch site comparison – Done
   2. Arrange interview with Brad Pitt – pending…