Are you irritated by simple drawings?

It's not wrong, but don't expect gravitas if you've clearly only spent 20 seconds scribbling any old crap down.

My fourth top rated drawing was rushed because I was pretty tired/annoyed at the time. And, even recently, the stuff I take three minutes on is not getting rated any worse than my "effort" drawings where I use every last second. (That might be, however, because I try to be humorous then...) What I am annoyed with is obviously ignoring parts of the prompt, or drawings where it's obvious they really don't care. As long as I can make out they tried to work with the prompt, I am okay with it. But ten-second stickmen are -not- something I am okay with.

Some of my drawings might only take seven or eight minutes, but th majority are closer to ten. I don't mind people doing quick drawings unless they are also careless drawings AND they then blart about it being unfair that they haven't got as many points as Corvax.

I wouldn't say its a bad thing . The focus of the game is to get the point across and some of them do it really basically. It always good to use all of the ten minutes given to you instead of doing quick stick figures that no-one will appreciate. I use the most of my ten minutes but I'm not a very talented drawer

I think simple drawings are ok if it's you are new (let's say less than 10 drawings). But at some point you should start getting better just through repetition. Otherwise you are not really trying, which is not ok.

Mark 12:41-44

Personally, I think the only thing that matters is conveying the description that you were given. If you can do it with simple stick people, why not?

Assuming you can be funny with stick people, then yes. Non-humourous matters are not quite as easy to convey, but they can keep a game running as long as the action is clear.

Quality doesn't matter as long as the next person stands a chance of describing the drawing and keeping the game going. My problem is when the prompt calls for a specific person / character and you get a stick figure. The game stands no chance to continue on-topic at that point unless they add some defining attributes to the stick character, which they rarely do.

As a few have said, as long as it conveys the prompt well enough, it does not have to be a masterpiece. Sometimes, I take the full 10 minutes and it's still not great looking. My top-rated drawing ever? Took me 5 minutes (it's a My Little Pony and I have drawn like... 5 of them now, lol).

If the drawing shows a basic ammount of effort and creativity, I don't mind stick figures and such at all. Not everyone is using a tablet and not everyone wants to spend a whole 10 minutes on a single frame, so it's just unrealistic to expect a masterpiece in every panel.

The only thing that irritates me is when the picture misses the idea of the text completely.

Agreed, le pape. I thought this game was for fun, and though I love seeing panels with effort and skill, it was supposed to be a game for people with little to none drawing skills AS WELL. As long as there's any chance of understanding what's going on in the panel, it should be fine. Frankly, I think it's a bit snobbish to complain about the quality of other people's drawings.

Obvious trolls are of course another matter, but there are kids playing this, people with mouses or trackpads and such. It's not a game meant for only pro artists.

Even missing the point doesn't bother me (like missing a reference or not recognising a character). There was a game a while back called "we do not sow" http://drawception.com/viewgame/9d911cGLK7/we-do-not-sow/ And through some incredible miracle, though the first player didn't get the reference and went completely elsewhere, it took only a couple of panels until the squids appeared. That was magical!

I'm not an artist, I'm a musician. I draw with my mouse. I don't have a tablet...well, unless my Atari tablet counts...yeah, probably not. Haven't written a driver for it yet anyway.

As a chiptune musician / game composer, I appreciate that sometimes part of the fun of doing your work is challenging yourself and there is often a lot of working within limitations. And then there's me; Personally, I just suck at graphic art.

The goal of Telephone is obviously to get your message to the other side successfully, without the message getting too horribly wrecked. Drawception builds upon that concept by using art and words as an idea delivery mechanism. But let's get real here, Drawception and Telephone are both games, and part of the obvious fun in the game is when things get misinterpreted and/or go horribly awry.

So, keeping all of that in mind, and also noting what DonnaAnna said (kids are playing): Stick figures might suck, but some people aren't capable of more, and if someone is making an effort, they shouldn't be put down for that.

"Stick figures might suck, but some people aren't capable of more, and if someone is making an effort, they shouldn't be put down for that."

Exactly this. Humans are difficult to draw :3 Oh, and ... I like the Shuttle Scuttle OST. :)

Well there's stick figures and there's stick figures. I drew this: stick figures The top part, part 1 are stick figures where no effort at all has been used. The second part are stick figures that are a bit more advanced and that do show effort. It's just giving the stick figures clothes and coloured faces. That's enough. Anyone, even an 11 year old, can draw a human or cat in 10 minutes like I did in the bottom drawing. If I see a simple drawing like that, you get my points for making an effort even though you are not a good drawer. But if you make stick figures like the above, you are not getting my points, because there is no way anyone would spend 10 minutes, drawing 3 stick figures like that...

Stick men with a little effort

Show-off. pfft.

ebbixx, only 3 words? Are you feeling okay?

Improving, actually.

Sometimes, I find that some of my 'better' drawings that I spent the full 10 minutes on, look like they were done in less than a minute