For many, the COVID-19 pandemic is creating a lot of anxiety and uncertainty, and many are looking for something to do during their downtime. If you’ve logged on to the Internet in recent days, you’ve probably seen various social media challenges asking you to recreate a TikTok dance or put a shirt on while doing a handstand — but a new challenge is offering a pretty creative alternative. Over the weekend, the #SixFanarts Challenge grew in popularity on Twitter and Instagram, with countless talented artists joining in on the fun. As the name would suggest, the challenge, which was originally started by Melissa Capriglione, involves asking your followers for suggestions on characters to draw, and then proceeding to draw them in a series of six blank boxes.
Give me six characters from popular media to draw!
(You’re welcome to repost this and ask your followers to give you something to draw too! And please tag it as #SixFanarts so I can see what you’ve done!) pic.twitter.com/Thuabm6dZj
โ Melissa Started #SixFanarts (@mcapriglioneart) March 17, 2020
The challenge has caught the attention of comic pros and aspiring artists alike, and has resulted in some genuinely breathtaking portraits of characters everyone knows and love. While you could spend hours getting lost in the #SixFanarts and #SixFanartsChallenge hashtags (which, honestly, doesn’t sound like a bad idea at the moment), we’ve selected a handful of our favorite entries thus far.
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Joe Quinones
A look at my first round of #sixfanarts – these were fun. pic.twitter.com/Q91rzLeGc6
โ Joe Quinones (@Joe_Quinones) April 6, 2020
Triona Tree Farrell
Ya’ll picked some fun ones. pic.twitter.com/D0gdFbtAq1
โ Trรญona Tree Farrell (@Treestumped) April 4, 2020
Sanford Greene
Alrighty…. here’s what I came up with! I also thought it would be cool to see different takes on the colors. I added the high rez link here as well…. let’s see whatcha got! #SixFanarts https://t.co/ENcnLW6BwU pic.twitter.com/NRJUW5EcZA
โ Sanford Greene (@sanfordgreene) April 6, 2020
Marcio Takara
#sixfanarts
โ Marcio Takara (@marcio_takara) April 3, 2020
hey. thanks, guys ๐ pic.twitter.com/HKUTmxidKy
Kiernan Sjursen-Lien
Hereโs my #SixFanarts! Thanks for giving me some fun characters! pic.twitter.com/yPFIPzQEdK
โ Kiernan Sjursen-Lien (@zakeno) April 5, 2020
Kris Anka
#SixFanarts pic.twitter.com/WYT8rxTHqs
โ kris (@kristaferanka) April 4, 2020
Gina Garavalia
My #SixFanarts! Thanks for all the great suggestions. I ended up having the best ideas for these ones. pic.twitter.com/XuFjKVtuJR
โ Gina Garavalia (@GinaGaravalia) April 6, 2020
Tim Seeley
I had like 90 requests so i picked at random and well…here ya go. #sixfanarts #SixFanartsChallenge pic.twitter.com/gdKl7EeV8P
โ Tim Seeley (@HackinTimSeeley) April 5, 2020
Katie Cook
Took some of the suggestions from last night and did a few doodles for #SixFanarts. Technically the Mona Lisa and Oscar the Grouch were separate ideas but they were next to each other so I combined them. pic.twitter.com/e0qtuGqSa2
โ Katie Cook (@katiecandraw) April 3, 2020