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Short, practical reads about drawing faces and doing things together online — tutorials, prompts, and group activity ideas from the team behind the wall.
How to Draw Someone You Know, Without a Photo
September 27, 2026 · 6 min read
Likeness isn't accuracy. It's a shortlist of three or four things people already recognise, and you can write that list from memory in under a minute before any line goes down.
How to Draw Eyes, Starting From Two Dots
September 21, 2026 · 6 min read
Eyes are the feature people are most sure they can't draw, and the one that needs the least work. Five levels, from two dots to a gaze pointed at something, and the level most faces should stop at.
How to Draw Expressions With Two Lines and Two Dashes
September 4, 2026 · 6 min read
Almost every feeling a simple face can carry comes from two dials: the mouth curve and the brow angle. The nine-cell grid, and the fix for a face that isn't landing.
How to Draw Hair Without Drawing Strands
September 4, 2026 · 6 min read
One rule, five silhouettes, and the hairline check that fixes faces which look vaguely wrong. Hair is what makes a drawn face recognisable as a specific person.
A Graduation Message Board Your Class Will Actually Open
September 4, 2026 · 7 min read
Yearbook pages get signed once and shelved. A week-long plan for a graduation wall where every classmate draws a face, what to do with it on the day, and what happens to it afterwards.
A Teacher Appreciation Board Made of Faces
September 4, 2026 · 4 min read
Thirty thank-you notes say the same three things. Thirty drawn faces can't. How to run one, why teachers keep them, and the age rule that decides whether it fits your class.
A Free Alternative to Paid Group Card Sites
September 4, 2026 · 7 min read
What a drawing wall does instead of a paid group card, four situations where it's the wrong tool, the three ways these things fail, and an honest answer about what free means here.
Guestbook Ideas for Events, Online and In the Room
September 4, 2026 · 5 min read
A guestbook that asks for a signature gets signatures. Setting one up that asks for a drawn face instead, with a QR code on the table or a link for the people at home.
How to Draw a Simple Face (That Actually Looks Good)
August 14, 2026 · 6 min read
Nine strokes, in order, with a picture at every step. Plus the two mistakes that make beginner faces look wrong, and why you can't tell which one you're making.
30 Face Drawing Ideas for When You're Bored
August 14, 2026 · 7 min read
Thirty prompts, sorted by flavour. Expressions, people, constraints, moods. Each one is a minute or two of drawing, each has a hashtag to file it under, and there's a note on how to use a list like this without stalling on it.
How to Draw With a Mouse Without Hating Every Line
August 14, 2026 · 7 min read
A mouse is a clumsy pen and a perfectly good drawing tool. The three adjustments that fix most of it, plus the warm-up and the recovery habits, from someone who built a drawing app and still draws with a mouse.
Hashtag Walls, and What They're For
August 14, 2026 · 5 min read
Every hashtag on the open wall gets a wall of its own. How the mechanism works, what it's built to do during an election or a tournament week, and how to start one.
Farewell Ideas for Someone Who's Leaving
August 14, 2026 · 6 min read
A rough week-by-week plan for a farewell wall where everyone draws the leaver a face instead of signing a card. Plus what to do if you've left it until their last afternoon.
Group Birthday Cards Without Collecting Money From Anyone
August 14, 2026 · 5 min read
The usual online group card ends with someone chasing payments for a grid of text boxes that all say HBD. Here's the version where nobody chips in, nobody makes an account and there are no text boxes.