by Bridget Barnett in Cool Websites on Tuesday 27 September 2011

If you like to doodle, but enjoy a little prompting on what to draw, this is the perfect procrastination tool for you. The Draw A Stickman website asks you to start drawing a simple stick man, and then a range of other props (such as key, balloon, sword, raincloud) to support a story as it develops on the screen. Easy? No, not really. I thought I was a quite the illustrator, but my attempt at drawing a balloon was met with the computer commenting: ‘You call that a balloon? It looks like a weird egg!’