If You Can't Draw Just Scribble

ScribblerToo is one of those web based doodling programs. It's not unique in this regard, there are rather a lot of them around. Usually the process will go something like this: Friend links to sketch program, I take a look, sketch something dreadful, decide I'd rather be doing it using something else (such as a pencil, or Artrage, or my elbow dunked in poo - which would still be preferable to some of these packages), close webpage, forget all about it.
ScribblerToo has a hook though - it does something that I'm not sure I can do in any other package. The best way to describe it is as "Painting with Cobwebs". Every time you draw a line it works out how close it is to another line you've already drawn, the closer the line the more likely it will be that it forms a "web" connection to it. The easiest way to understand is to try it yourself - Don't fret if you can't draw because it works just as well on abstract stuff. It's called ScribblerToo for a reason y'know? Well, two reasons, I'll get to the other in a moment.

So then my friend Wayne first linked me to an image done in it I was impressed, and then after using it myself I was even more impressed.  I'd likely never use it for anything "finished" (although it probably could be used for it) but for just doodling it's a lot of fun.  None of the following pictures took more than 5 minutes, and most were done in far less.  Don't expect these scribble posts all that often (if ever again), I just thought you might be interested in seeing the package and what it can do.

Of all of these this was the first, and is still my favourite.  No reference.

Based on a thumbnail on the ScribblerToo Page

From a photo of some guy on a ship.  Probably from US Navy's site, but I don't recall for certain.

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From a photo of William Gibson (I think).  Looks bugger all like him though.

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From a photo, I know not where from.  Yes, it was probably a porn site of some kind - Hush, they're good for reference.

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From a photo - again no idea where from, but probably a gay site.  And hush again - I don't discriminate on where the reference comes from as long as it's good reference.

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From a photo, but doesn't look anything like the original.

So there you have it.
Only one more thing to note, which is that I went and looked at ScribblerToo's predecessor Scribbler. The main difference is that you do your scribble first and it covers it in webs afterwards. It's OK, but I think I prefer ScribblerToo's more immediate system. Anyway, here's the piece I did in the original, for posterities sake.  On the left is what I drew, on the right is what it made of it.