Drawing Day is a worldwide drawing event encouraging everyone to drop everything and draw for the sake of art. The internet is an open canvas. Help create 1 million drawings online this day and boost online art communities.

When is Drawing Day?
Drawing Day this year is June 07, 2008. Unless otherwise noted, Drawing Day will be the first Saturday of June each year.

What is Drawing Day?
One day a year, the world stops to remember that joy we had when we first picked up a pencil and created our first piece of art - that’s what Drawing Day is all about. The goal for Drawing Day is simple - to create enough drawings to make some noise worldwide for the sake of art. 2008 is the first year of this initiative. The goal this year is to aim for 1 million drawings worldwide.

Why is Drawing Day important?
Illustrators and artists alike often go unappreciated. The creation of art and illustration captured our minds ever since we were children and our parents turned the pages of our first book. These stories came to life via the illustrations that took us to an imaginary world full of inspiration.

Whether you’re a professional illustrator or you just enjoy the occasional scribble, you can give back to the illustration community by drawing on this day. By injecting more and more illustration and art into our community, we are not only showing our appreciation to our fellow artists, but we are spreading awareness of the joy of drawing. It is important that you contribute - Drawing Day will only be a success if we all participate and make some noise. So, please tell your friends and spread the word.

How do I participate?
To join in on this event is simple - as simple as picking up a pencil and drawing. However, the most important part is sharing your art with the world.

In today’s age of technology, the ability to share your art with the world is easier than ever. These are some of the of the best ways to reach a broad audience.

My sincerest apologies, you don’t get your delicious dose of wonderful art today. Reason being, my Ron Mueck post was ripped word-for-word, by this foolish weasel (screenshot). It makes me sad to think folks with little, if any, imagination brains can get away with word-for-word plagiarism. Sludging through his site there seems evidence he rips off other people’s materials for his blog too. In fact, maybe he/she doesn’t write at all!? What’s worse, the site in question contains no email or open comment box for me to inform him/her to remove the post. Am in the process of submitting a complaint to wordpress and ask that my content be removed from the site. Still, if this doesn’t help, what can I do? Any good (legal) suggestions?

Update: removed link to my ripped post - really, they’re not worth the credit. Thanks Baby Milo. Instead, I’ve put a screenshot of my ripped post.

Here is a website graph of my blog. It’s very cool visualizer for WebSites that traverses the HTML of a page and then turns it into a pretty graph. When I first came across structured content graph last year I dismissed it as useless, but then I actually started analysing what it showed. In doing so, it colors the graph nodes based on what type of HTML element they represent: blue: for links (the A tag) red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags) green: for the DIV tag violet: for images (the IMG tag) yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags) orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags) black: the HTML tag, the root node gray: all other tag…

It’s quite a wonderful toy, even though the Java® applet is a poor performer. It will be interesting to see the structured markup a year from now, maybe it will randomly transform into a more painterly palette. You can see a whole gallery of generated DOM graphs by looking at the websitesasgraphs tag on Flickr. Check out Siteograph: Link.