Etch A Sketch turns 50: amazing art created with the drawing toy

[Ruby the Liberal]

Awesome images at the link! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/7885062/Etch-A-Sketch-turns-50-amazing-art-created-with-the-drawing-toy.html

[tridim]

1. The art is obviously amazing..

But at some point you just have to ask, "Why?"

Honestly I hated drawing with the Etch-A-Sketch and consider it an oddity in toy history. Neat invention, lame toy.

[Ruby the Liberal]

3. I struggled to draw 'stairs' on one of those things

It was like the 1960s version of the Rubik's cube. Nothing but utter frustration! :D

[wtmusic]

8. That was all I could draw

But I was very, very good at it :D

[KansasVoter]

2. So pissed at them that they closed US factory and moved to china.

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. Who hasn't these days?

:(

[Brickbat]

16. Lots of toys.

You just have to look.

[11 Bravo]

5. Amazing stuff! Thanks for the link.

[NYC_SKP]

6. This President Obama Portrait is really quite impressive!

:P



:applause:

[Ruby the Liberal]

7. How do they do this?

Because of the linear nature, I am guessing they draw it out freehand and then follow the 'script' drawing, either columnar or row based?

As one who had one of these as a kid, I can't even imagine.

[NYC_SKP]

9. I also had these, and can't figure it out.

You might be right about having an aid, like a transparency laid over the screen.

But what was always frustrating was that to go from one are to another, you can't avoid leaving a trail with the stylus.

I think, at the very least, they've remove the back so that they can "lift" the stylus away from the glass to go freely from one area to another without leaving lines.

I guess.

:shrug:

[Dr Morbius]

10. Image 11, which I cannot copy over to here, blew me away.

It has three eggs. They're not touching. I have no idea how it was done.

[Canuckistanian]

13. This one?

[NYC_SKP]

15. You mean the Mona Lisa one? This one?

copied and pasted. :P



:hi:

[Canuckistanian]

11. Etch A Sketch is as old as "To Kill a Mockingbird"?

What a coincidence.

[gratuitous]

12. I drew a lopsided house with a chimney once

Those other things at the link? Couldn't do it with a photocopier, let alone an Etch-A-Sketch.

[malaise]

14. Wow

I'm sure all of us received at least one of them as a Christmas present. Nothing I drew looked like those sketches.

[The Backlash Cometh]

18. I was pretty good at drawing ant trails.

[DemReadingDU]

17. World's largest Etch A Sketch

To celebrate the 50th anniversary, the Children's Museum of Indianapolis has teamed up with The Ohio Art Company, makers of Etch A Sketch, to create the world's largest Etch A Sketch

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/7885062/Etch-A-Sketch-turns-50-amazing-art-created-with-the-drawing-toy.html?image=29