I brought this up on the Discord art guild server earlier and I thought it would be fun to create a thread dedicated to this game. The rules are super simple. Basically, as the name would suggest, a challenge is proposed, like "Usagi eating cake" and you have to attempt to draw said thing with your eyes closed. That's the only rule. You can add color, text, whatever. Just so long as you didn't look at what you were doing when you did it. (I realize you might need to open your eyes to pick out the tools you need, but after you do that, keep 'em shut! ) The beauty of this game is that you don't need to be a seasoned artist to participate since it's just for fun. You just need to be bored LOL. I was thinking we could even add an extra challenge by making a poll where we all vote on the most interesting rendition and whoever had the funniest one is declared victor, making them responsible for picking out the next theme/challenge. You can use any program to make your picture. You can even draw it out on paper or paint it if you're ambitious enough to do so. 

RULES: It has come to my attention that maybe I didn't specify enough, sorry! I was excited lol

You can use a reference pic. That's totally fine. You don't have to, but you can if you don't remember what the character looks like. You just cannot look at what lines you are putting down on the paper, screen etc as you are drawing. So like, let's say I'm trying to draw PallaPalla but I don't recall the details of her outfit, I can go google her and study it. I just can't open my eyes mid-drawing and be like "hey does my PallaPalla look correct? Oh shoot her eyes off in space *erase error*" 'cuz then it would be no fun! You could open your eyes to look at your reference of course, but once you start drawing again you have to close them. Sorry, is this making sense? I'm not the best with written explanations sometimes lol. \

It can look good, bad, whatever. As long as the actual work of the drawing, coloring, typing etc was sincerely done with closed eyes. If you want to add color, you will probably have to open your eyes to select the color, but once you go to add it, you have to color the picture with closed eyes. It's okay if you pause to look and see like "omg she looks freaky" just so long as you don't add stuff with your eyes open!
"only time u need to close them is when u are actually in process of drawing,coloring,etc"
 
Please do not hesitate to ask me questions because maybe I didn't explain it right! XD


Links to some online free drawing software:
Sumo Paint
MS Paint Replicator

Example

Sample Challenge: Draw Helios


Submission examples:

one where color was added (actual coloring done with closed eyes, of course)

No idea what this even is... but that's an example of a good submission too! 

Let's begin- Challenge 1: Amazon Quartet (you can draw one or all four girls)

oh my word
"Pallapalla"

Hot mess I call, PallaPalla:

AHAHA omg I love it the... head? Looks like a thumbs up. Because you did a good job XD

Can you tell this is Usagi? LOL

"PallaPalla"


I had to do some serious censorship on my end for my Cintiq and PaintTool Sai, so that I couldn't see what I was drawing. XD

@LaMoonstar, actually I can! because the pigtails on the sides and her signature bangs up top haha

@Andalusite omg that's gorgeous.   I love it, I'll put it on the fridge. We need a "Draw with Your Eyes Closed Challenge Fridge of Fame."

so... um... I tried...

Send in your drawings and you can appear on our fridge LOL

@Usagi-Serenity thats amazing I have to update the fridge

That PallaPalla is actually fairly recognizable, not bad XD

I don't have a tablet at the moment, I usually draw with the line tool and the mouse though. That requires a lot of seeing what you'redoing for context, so here's some freehand mouse attempts at this game. To quote that one SuperS episode with Kamoi the starving artist in it, "Ohhhhh noooo..."

So here's Narew and Uminope:

And the Shutennou! Jankite, Nahfright, Zoislight, and Kunsight.

Sorry about your head, Jadeite. And Nephrite's eyes. In fact, just sorry in general. Perhaps I've made a dreadful mistake...

For the sake of my reputation as an artist, I'd like to clarify that I drew my avatar too, so, er. I better not get my eyes clawed out anytime soon.

Omg I think Zoisite is my favorite of the the generals. xD XD So fab with his "ho ho ho" laugh.

I love all of these so much. So very, very much. 

I tried drawing VesVes...I APOLOGIZE FOR THE HORROR.
Image of reference : (just so you can compare)

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And drawing :

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