Day 1: A Twister of a Daily Create Challenge

I could not be more excited then to see all 36 drawings of tornados for the first day of the Seven Day Daily Create Challenge (and I realize my tweets and blog posts may be bordering on annoying in frequency, but hey, go take it up with my Drill Sergeants).

I hope to see y’all (and more for today’s challenge: a photo of an outdoor scene without any human artifacts). Remember as you go, that te challenge is at the end to weave all seven into some sort of narrative.

Everyone who completed the day 1 gets an “A” (that stands for teh Awesome).

Among the many colorful swirls for tornado drawings, some favorites for interpreting the assignment include (and folks, embedding is easier if y’all make ’em creative commons):

A face trace of one of the members of the Texas Tornados

Chanda’s swirls are neon, and she used a free web-based app Flamepainter) we had recommended (and I forgot about)

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Coming to us from our collegaue in Ghana, a storm force is ds106– it is a ds106ado!

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It has all the symbols, but Shannon’s use of the brushes in Paper53 are superb. I’m studying the style…

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Michael Branson Smith brings his own twist of whacky fun by bringing the tornado full of cats to the ballpark.

The starkness of this drawing is lovely, done with pencil on a Post-It note!

This is just fun- all eyeballs on or in the storm

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Hurricane, tornado, they are all storms and Coop makes a groovy drinkable version.

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I could not be more excited than to see Audrey Watters playing along, here her tornado rips up her Udacity class notes.