One-Hour Drawing Game

About

One-Hour Drawing Game, also called "Midnight 60-Minute Serious Drawing Game" (Japanese: 深夜の真剣お絵描き60分一本勝負) or "One-Draw" / "1Draw" (ワンドロ, Wandoro) for short, refers to an online game of drawing an illustration in 60 minutes with a theme offered on Twitter. Since the middle of 2013, it has been a very popular practice among Japanese amateur illustrators.

Origin

This drawing game was started as an in-group game for training of a Twitter user @kuroneko262^[1] and a few of his friends. The first game was started at 8:30 PM on May 14, 2013 with his two friends and the themes were their favorite Touhou Project characters: Koishi Komeiji, Nazrin or Kasen Ibaraki.

dream_detector</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/yoihebi">yoihebi 各々準備が整った報告を受けてから10分後に始めましょう、今日はこいしちゃんぐの日なのでこいしちゃんか火曜日なのでナズーリンか華が関係あるキャラです それぞれなに描くか申告しようね！

— 黒いもにょもけ・猫型 (@kuroneko262) May 14, 2013

Results for the first session

Then, a hashtag "#Midnight60MinuteSeriousDrawingGame" (#深夜の真剣お絵描き60分一本勝負) has been used for this game since announcements for the 3rd session on May 15th.^[2]

Spread

By the advent of the hashtag, this One-Hour Drawing game became to be known widely, and the sessions organized by @kuroneko262 almost everyday quickly increased its participants. And its themes were mostly chosen from Touhou Project characters because of the taste of the originator and his surroundings. A support web page 1draw^[3] which automatically collects illustrations uploaded with this hashtag was also launched in July of that year.

On the other hand, rapid increase of participants brought difficulty of the game management. Particularly in the early days, co-existing of Kantai Collection (KanColle) characters in this game which began by Touhou Project characters elicited many objections from both of titles' hardcore fans. In this context, the originator retired from the organizer in 2 months. And according to a wiki page which archives events and troubles in the KanColle fandom, the subsequent organizers were also heavily criticized their KanColle-centric management which aimed to occupy the support page by KanColle illustrations. Additionally, their inconsiderate acts at that time became to remote cause of an another incident which this game for KanColle got collapsed temporally by trolls from 2channel's /livejupiter/ board in March 2015.^[4]

Against this background, today One-Hour Drawing Game is practiced every night for each anime, manga, video game titles separately by utilizing its own hashtags and Twitter accounts for theme announcements, which are managed by many voluntary organizers. Those hashtags are usually named by the phrasal template "Midnight60MinuteSeriousDrawingGameXXEdition" (XX版深夜の真剣お絵描き60分一本勝負). And the first hashtag is used only for the game for Touhou Project. The participants works are often reuploaded to their pixiv pages under tags which are same as the Twitter hashtags (eg. Touhou Project^[5], KanColle^[6]) or the tag 1draw (ワンドロ)^[7]. And many of them are reblogged to Tumblr as well.^[8]

Various Examples

Twitter Feeds

Editor’s note: This Twitter Feed may include mature contents.

Touhou Project (Since May 2013)^[9]

Kantai Collection (Since July 2013)^[10]

Love Live! (Since December 2013)^[11]

Pokémon (Since December 2013)^[12][13]

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Since April 2014)^[14]

Search Interest

A large spike for the word "1draw" in March 2015 was caused by trolls invasion to the hashtag for KanColle One-Hour Drawing Game.

External References

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