{"id":8977,"date":"2021-04-15T08:20:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T15:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/?p=8977"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:07:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:07:01","slug":"wacom-and-pixiv-present-drawfest-an-online-interactive-drawing-festival-for-the-global-art-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wacom-and-pixiv-present-drawfest-an-online-interactive-drawing-festival-for-the-global-art-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Wacom and pixiv present Drawfest \u2013 An online, interactive drawing festival for the global art community"},"content":{"rendered":"Wacom and pixiv are pleased to announce Drawfest<\/a>, a hands-on, live event streamed on YouTube, May 21 to 23, that consists of eight livestream programs, each one to four hours long. In addition to online workshops and lectures held by an assortment of internationally recognized illustrators, animators and comic artists, there will also be programs for the audience to draw together. Everyone who draws is welcome. The event will offer simultaneous interpretation in both Japanese and English so that people from numerous regions will be able to participate in the festival.\n

Register now for Drawfest!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cAnime, the hand-drawn and computer animation style originating in Japan, has seen its popularity grow and practitioners and fans can now be found in virtually every country around the globe,\u201d says Nobutaka Ide, CEO of Wacom Company Ltd. \u201cBy teaming with pixiv on Drawfest, we are creating a cross-boundary and cross-language platform for artists and designers to share their passion for drawing and learning from others.\u201d\n\nArt is universal and has a special way of helping break down regional and language barriers. Drawfest was born from the idea of providing an online event to give creators the chance to get together with other like-minded artists from all over the world so that everyone could interact and draw together.\n\n\u201cThe pixiv online community is for all who share a love for art and fan art, and we are dedicated to increasing the value and networking opportunities of game, anime, manga and other illustrators all over,\u201d says Shingo Kunieda, CEO of pixiv, Inc. \u201cBy collaborating with Wacom on Drawfest, we hope to revitalize artists, bring a smile to their faces and support them with an opportunity that is truly international in scope.\u201d\n\nAdditional sponsorships from Adobe, hololive English, NetEase, Netflix, and WIT STUDIO, are helping provide sessions on specific anime themes, such as hololive English<\/em>, Identity V<\/em>, and GREAT PRETENDER<\/em>.\n\nTo learn more about Drawfest and how to participate, please click here<\/a>.\n\nEvent Information<\/strong>\n\nEvent Date:<\/strong> May 21 - 23, 2021 [PDT] 17:00 - 23:00 in each day\n\nLanguage:<\/strong> English\/Japanese live interpretation\n\nPrograms:<\/strong> 8 programs\n\nEvent Platform:<\/strong> YouTube Live (Private Livestream)\n\nPrice to View:<\/strong> Free to view (Pre-registration required)\n\nEvent website<\/strong><\/a>\n\n*The pre-registration for the event may be closed early once it reaches the maximum number of registrations.\n\nDay 1<\/strong>\n\nDay 1, 17:00 - 18:00 PDT\n\n[Lecture + Drawing All Together] How to draw realistic lighting\n\nSpeaker: Modare\n\nDay 1, 19:00 - 21:00 PDT\n\n[Drawing All Together] Let's draw \"Identity V\" using Adobe Fresco, a free drawing tool!\n\nSpeakers: Melo Kyuba & Takashi Iwamoto\n\nSponsors: Adobe & NetEase\n\nDay 1, 22:00 - 23:00 PDT\n\n[Lecture + Drawing All Together] Let's paint a magical moment together!\n\nSpeaker: Heikala\n\nDay 2<\/strong>\n\nDay 2, 17:00 - 21:00 PDT\n\n[Lecture + Drawing All Together] Let's learn the easiest way to create manga through yonkoma\n\nSpeaker: Toshiya Wakabayashi\n\nDay 2, 21:30 - 23:30 PDT\n\n[Drawing All Together] Happy Birthday, Ina! Let's draw \"Ninomae Ina'nis\"!\n\nSpeaker: Ninomae Ina\u2019nis\n\nSponsor: hololive English\n\nDay 3<\/strong>\n\nDay 3, 17:00 - 18:00 PDT\n\n[Lecture + Drawing All Together] How to design a character with a strong thematic and iconic elements\n\nSpeaker: Zeronis\n\nDay 3, 19:00 - 21:00 PDT\n\n[Lecture + Drawing All Together] WIT Animator Academy Online! How to draw characters presented by a chief animation supervisor\n\nSpeaker: Hirotaka Kato\n\nSponsors: WIT Studio & Netflix\n\nDay 3, 22:00 - 23:00 PDT\n\n[Lecture + Drawing All Together] Going from sketch to color quickly and efficiently\n\nSpeaker: Loish\n\nArtwork by: Felicia Chen","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2318,2317],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-inspiration","category-digital-drawing-painting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}