I finally made something in Illustrator that doesn't look like poop.

After a long time reading an online tutorial, and an even longer time trying to figure out how to use the pen tool, I finally made something in Illustrator I think is worth sharing.

I give you "Emo Comic Book Self-Portrait In Amateur Illustrator."

How to be a Troll in Draw Something: Part 3

I haven't played Draw Something in forever, but I've still got a bunch of pictures that'd I'd like to share.

I was sent a couple recently that I thought were pretty creative. Shout-out to Alejandra for the art skills.

Love the Skyrim reference.

Great Composition

Good background and super creative.

So I've put together some of the drawings I recently made. My goal has always been to be creative, funny, or irrelevant. I'll try to have some level of organization here.

If I had more time, I would have made this one especially awesome.

Britney

Baseball. I couldn't resist drawing Hitler again.

Pink. I'll let you draw your own conclusions.

Tornado

Going off the Wizard of Oz theme, I think this is one of my better pictures.

Windows

Mountain. Friend just got back from Disneyland, so I felt this was appropriate.

So like I've mentioned before, I've experimented with throwing really irrelevant stuff in my drawings. I don't think any of them work as well as Ignoring Hitler, but some have led to amusing drawings. Here are some of the results.

Emma. 

In honor of The Avengers, I did a series of Hulk drawings.

Wink

Emo. 

Ice Cream

Skirt. I feel that this picture has my best shading.

Malfoy. This is still not as gay as Twilight.

Remember this guy? He was the best. But ridiculously hard to draw.

Cookbook

Crossbow

Stallone. He's riding a velociraptor with laser beams, because he can.

Waldo.

Thanks, Internet. You Work Weird

I know a little bit about SEO, and I consider my blog somewhat more successful than average, but every now and then, the way the internet works just surprises me.

I just finished my second best month ever in terms of readership, thanks to a couple of random flukes (the first best month, by the way, came from having StumbleUpon sending 1,700 people to my blog in one day--also kind of a random fluke). 

Fluke of the month #1: Sometime towards the end of May, all the EFY kids came to Provo. They bore down on us like a swarm of pre-pubescent squirrels with ADHD who were trying really hard to impress members of the opposite squirrel gender (seriously EFY kids, if you were to take a moment and look at all of you from the outside-in, you'd realize that you're trying waaay too hard to impress people). And for whatever reason, about 654 people Googled "EFY kids" and came to my blog to look at this image:

This happens to be on the first page of my 'efy kids' Google image search.

I find this ironic, because I didn't make this image. Some dude on the BYU Memes Facebook page did. All I did is find it and share it. And my blog went crazy for it.

Then, last week, another 141 people came to my blog in one hour, just because someone posted about my BYU Memes post to the Cougarboard.

So this is what the last month on my blog has looked like:

So here's what I find so weird about this - last month, I put up two Draw Something Posts (here's the first one about Hitler, and here's the second one about Batman). Both of them have drawn quite a few people to my blog. These two posts contain orignal art that I'm fairly proud of.

However, the biggest traffic driver to my blog was a post where I just copied a bunch of other people's jokes onto my blog. In academia, this is called plagiarism.

The second biggest driver to my blog was someone else telling people that I did a really good job at plagiarizing other people's work!

By the way, this is exactly how Reddit works.

The moral of this story is that my original content will never be as compelling as someone else's, and that the internet rewards plagiarism.

Thanks, internet?