About

Redraw refers to an art exercise wherein people recreate a still from animation in a different style. It is not to be confused with "redraw posts" wherein an artist draws one of their own pictures later to document how their style has changed.

Origin

While it's unclear where exactly the trend started, tweets with the hashtag #redraw used for the purpose of redrawing animation stills appeared as early as 2014. That year, pieces appeared featuring redraws of Sailor Moon (shown below, left) and My Little Pony: Friendships Is Magic (shown below, right).

Spread

Prior to an October 2018 surge in Redraws using a scene from Disney's Lady and the Tramp, artists posted their redraws of scenes and saw modest social media spread (examples shown below).

Lady and the Tramp

On October 14th, 2018, Korean Twitter user @pixxcc^[1] posted a cel from Lady and the Tramp featuring the characters Lady and Peg redrawn as gijinka characters. The tweet gained over 48,000 retweets and 125,000 likes (shown below).

The popularity of the tweet led other Twitter users to also redraw the scene with various human characters. For example, Twitter user @peter_seaside posted art that gained over 17,000 retweets and 34,000 likes (shown below, left). User @rok0813 posted their artwork, gaining over 21,000 retweets and 55,000 likes (shown below, right).

Other popular examples include tweets by @Hartwin_comic that gained over 2,400 retweets and 9,100 likes (shown below, left). User @kisenoi posted their example, gaining over 17,000 retweets and 62,000 likes (shown below, right). The meme was covered by Daily Dot.^[2]

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