Happy New Year from Samitomoto

Happy New Year from Samitomoto!

Well what a December it was! The Samitomoto Drawing Game launched, as did the Samitomoto website and online shop. It was a wildly exciting ride for me!

I am thrilled at how the game has been received in the short time period since it's release. Thank you to everyone involved in the development of the Samitomoto Drawing Game and an extra big thanks to everyone who has bought the game, taken it to heart and who love playing it!!

I personally love to play it, with friends or alone. I find it a great tool to use to break that dreaded scary thing, the artists block of the blank page. I'll happily take up an opportunity to exercise my silly creative side and to give the eight year old inside me a chance to play. I'm then free to work on my more serious personal art work.

But that's just one use for the drawing game.

What I'm loving also is the feedback on how you are developing your owns rules and ways of playing, I think that's wonderful too!

If my game helps to spread the magic and joy or drawing to you and makes you smile, then that's everything to me!

Now I want to hear your stories and feedback. Please email me at info@samitomoto.com and let me know your stories and images from playing the Samitomoto Drawing Game. Please keep files under 2 Mg.

Here is one of my drawings from playing the game (see above) - 'A quiet orange spotted parrot wearing flared trousers'. I hope it makes you smile!

Happy new year,

Cheers,

Sam Simpson-Morgan

Image copyright Samantha Simpson-Morgan 2011.
Content copyright Rarified pty ltd 2011.

Introducing- The Samitomoto Drawing Game!

Well what an exciting week it's been!

The Samitomoto website went live and I'm loving the online sales!

Some of you have asked, just what is the Samitomoto Drawing Game? Well, it is a fun creative card game for creative spirits from 8-80 years old. It is designed to be non competitive, to help you to get into a state of creative flow and to help you to unblock creatively.

It gives you permission to be silly and have fun with your drawings.

How does it work?

Simply separate the cards into the four coloured piles; pink, green, blue and yellow and lay them face down. Roll the dice and turn over the top card in the pink pile. Whatever the dice rolls for example, 'two', you will be drawing the words next to that number on the card. Continue rolling the dice for all four piles until you have a complete phrase; for example- 'A glittery silver cat in a sports car'. Write this phrase down, your task now is to draw this.

It's about using your imagination, having fun and getting into creative flow.

You can play alone or in a group and I encourage you to join the Samitomoto facebook page as we will soon be playing the game there.

And here's one of my drawings I prepared earlier; 'an enormous red and white spotted mouse rollerskating'.

It makes me smile every time I look at it and I want to share this creative joy with the rest of the world! That's why I created this game. Click here to buy your game.

I would like to thank all the wonderful people who helped make this game a reality; especially Papercut for the fabulous design, Create and Print for the printing, Copperhead for the screen printing of the packaging and all the family, friends and business associates who supported me through this process.

Copyright Rarified pty ltd 2010.