60 rounds

Draw Each Other Challenge: A Rule and a Clock for Every Round

Sit facing a friend, press the button for a rule, start the clock and draw the person opposite.

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Draw each other in one unbroken line2 min. The pen never leaves the paper. Travel from eye to ear by any route you like.

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Without looking 12

Draw each other after a ten second look, with eyes shut 1 min. Look, shut your eyes and draw. Open them only to sign it.
Draw each other from a spoken description only 3 min. Back to back. One describes their own face, the other draws it. Then swap.
Draw each other from memory, sitting back to back 2 min. Look for twenty seconds, turn round and draw. Turn back to check.
Draw each other from the chin upwards without looking down 2 min. Start at the chin, finish at the hair. Show both drawings on three.
Draw each other while keeping eye contact 1 min. Look at their eyes and nowhere else. Whoever looks down first signs both pages.
Draw each other while looking through a paper tube 2 min. Roll a sheet and look down it, one part of the face at a time. Unroll and compare.
Draw each other with a second sheet covering your hand 2 min. The cover sheet hides hand and page. Lift both covers on three.

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Without looking, continued

Draw each other with the page pushed out to one side 2 min. Slide the paper to where you can hardly see it. Pull it back at the end.
Draw each other with the page under the table 2 min. Draw in your lap where you cannot see it. Bring both pages up together.
Draw each other with the paper held on your own forehead 1 min. Paper flat on your forehead, pen up. Swap pages and laugh together.
Draw each other without looking at the paper 2 min. Eyes stay on the face the whole time. Turn both pages over on three.
Draw each other's outline in one slow line, eyes on the face 3 min. This is blind contour drawing. Travel slowly round the edge and never glance down.

Against the clock 12

Draw each other as large as the page allows 2 min. The head must touch all four edges. Big shapes first, then stop on time.
Draw each other in five poses, one minute each 5 min. The sitter changes pose every minute. Five small drawings on one sheet.
Draw each other in ten lines, one line every six seconds 1 min. One person counts aloud. Ten strokes and the round is over.
Draw each other in the time it takes to hum one tune 2 min. The sitter hums. When the tune ends, pencils go down.
Draw each other in two minutes, then again in thirty seconds 3 min. Slow first, fast second. Put both up and choose the better likeness.
Draw each other no bigger than your thumb 1 min. Draw inside a box the size of a thumb. Swap, sign and keep it.
Draw each other three times on one page, faster each time 3 min. Ninety seconds, sixty, then thirty. Circle your favourite of the three.
Draw each other while the sitter counts down from sixty 1 min. The sitter counts, the artist draws and nobody may laugh. Then swap.
Draw each other without stopping the pencil until time is up 2 min. The pencil keeps moving, even when you run out of face. Sign and swap.
Draw each other's eyes, nose and mouth, twenty seconds each 1 min. A caller shouts change. Fit the three parts together as best you can.
Draw each other's hair only, in one minute 1 min. No face at all. See whether a friend can tell who it is.
Draw each other's whole face in thirty seconds, twice 1 min. Thirty seconds, stop, new page, thirty more. Keep the one you like best.

Wrong hand, wrong tool 12

Draw each other in one unbroken line 2 min. The pen never leaves the paper. Travel from eye to ear by any route you like.
Draw each other in torn paper, with no pencil 5 min. Tear the shapes of the face from scrap and arrange them. Glue is optional.
Draw each other using circles and nothing else 2 min. Large, small and overlapping. Count your circles at the end and compare.
Draw each other using only dots 5 min. No lines. Crowd the dots for hair and shade, and spread them out for skin.
Draw each other using straight lines only 3 min. Curls turn into zigzags and cheeks into corners. Rulers are allowed.
Draw each other with a crayon held flat on its side 3 min. Peel the paper off a crayon and use its long edge. Broad shapes only.
Draw each other with a pen in each hand 2 min. One hand for each side of the face, both moving at once. Meet in the middle.
Draw each other with an eraser on a page shaded grey 5 min. Cover the page in soft pencil first, then rub out the light parts of the face.
Draw each other with the hand you do not write with 3 min. Go slowly and let it wobble. Sign with the same hand and give it to the sitter.
Draw each other with the pencil taped to a long stick 3 min. Stand an arm's length from the paper. Wobbly lines are correct.
Draw each other with the thickest marker in the room 2 min. Small details are impossible. Choose the five shapes that matter most.
Draw each other with two pencils taped together 2 min. Every line comes out double. Hold both pages up when time is called.

Change one thing 12

Draw each other as a cartoon built round their favourite feature 3 min. Ask first which feature they like best. Make that the star of the drawing.
Draw each other as a coin portrait in side view 2 min. A profile inside a circle. Add a motto the sitter chooses.
Draw each other as a formal royal portrait 5 min. Crown, sash and a very serious face. The sitter chooses the royal title.
Draw each other as characters from the sitter's kind of story 5 min. A pirate, a detective, a wizard: the sitter picks and the artist dresses them.
Draw each other as explorers on a postage stamp 3 min. Draw a toothed border first. The sitter says what they discovered.
Draw each other as heroes with one power each 3 min. The sitter names the power. The artist designs the mask and the badge.
Draw each other as statues in a park 3 min. Put them on a block with a plaque. The sitter decides what the plaque says.
Draw each other as the animal each of you picks 3 min. Say your animal aloud before the clock starts. Keep the hair and the smile.
Draw each other as you might both look at eighty 3 min. Add laughter lines, glasses and a splendid hat. Swap and keep them for later.
Draw each other in a hat the sitter invents 2 min. The sitter describes the hat before the clock starts. It may be enormous.
Draw each other in the job you each wanted at six 3 min. Ask the job first. Uniform, tools and a proud pose.
Draw each other with the hairstyle the sitter has always wanted 2 min. Ask, then draw it as tall or as long as they say.

For a group 12

Draw each other and hand the portrait over with one kind word 3 min. Finish, sign it, and say one true, kind thing as you give it to the sitter.
Draw each other and pass the page on after each part 3 min. One minute for eyes, one for nose, one for hair. Three artists share each face.
Draw each other as a team photograph on one big sheet 5 min. Small heads in rows. Everyone draws one teammate and signs under the face.
Draw each other as one long portrait on a roll of paper 5 min. Everyone draws the neighbour to the right. The row joins at the shoulders.
Draw each other from names out of a hat, in secret 3 min. Pick a name and draw that person without staring. Pin them up and guess.
Draw each other in a relay, ten seconds a turn 2 min. One page for each sitter goes round the circle. Every artist adds one thing.
Draw each other in pairs, then swap partners twice 5 min. Ninety seconds with each partner. Everyone goes home with three portraits.
Draw each other's hands, then match hands to owners 3 min. Draw the left hand of the person opposite. Shuffle the pages and match them.
Draw each other's shoes and guess the wearer 2 min. Look under the table, draw one shoe, fold the page. Guess as a group.
Draw one sitter from every seat round the table 2 min. A volunteer sits still in the middle. Lay the drawings out in seat order.
Draw the person on your left while your right-hand neighbour draws you 3 min. A full circle of sitters and artists. Hold up every page at once.
Draw the person opposite, then everyone moves one seat a minute 5 min. The drawings stay put and the artists move. Each portrait has five artists.

How this list was compiled: Original list written for Draw This Next on 2026-09-30: rounds for two or more people who sit facing each other and draw the person opposite. Every rule and hint is our own work. Each hint opens with the round's time limit in minutes, which is a rule of the game and not an estimate, and the timer reads it. Kind rules only: every change is one the sitter chooses, and nothing scores looks. No title repeats one in any other list on the site (the lists of things to draw when bored, drawing ideas for teens, couple painting ideas and self-portrait ideas among them). The one technique a hint names, blind contour drawing, was checked on 2026-09-30 against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_contour_drawing (drawing a subject's outline while never looking at the paper). No video maker, channel, show or platform is named, and nothing is taken from any published version of the trend. Licence: own work

How it works

In the draw each other challenge, two people sit face to face and each draws the other. This page deals one rule for the round, with its time limit and a clock to start. Press Pick another round for the next.

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How a round goes

Sit opposite each other with paper and something to draw with. Read the rule aloud, start the timer and draw until it ends. Then turn both pages round at the same moment. Every round finishes the same way: sign the portrait and give it to the person in it.

Five kinds of round

A menu under the button keeps to one kind: without looking, against the clock, wrong hand or wrong tool, change one thing, or for a group. In a drawing each other challenge nothing scores looks. Every change in the fourth kind is one the sitter chooses.

Laugh at the drawings, never at the face. Say one thing you like about each portrait before the next round.
Start with a round from Without looking. Nobody can be good at it, which settles everyone.
Keep every page. Dated and signed, a stack of quick portraits is a better record than one careful one.

Questions and answers

What is the draw each other challenge?

Two or more people sit facing each other and draw the person opposite, usually under a rule or a time limit, then show the results together. This page supplies the rules one at a time, each with its own limit.

How long is each round?

Each rule has its own limit of one, two, three or five minutes, given at the start of its hint, and the clock counts that limit down once you start it. The limit is part of the game, so stop when it ends.

What is blind contour drawing?

Drawing the outline of a subject with eyes off the paper. Your eyes follow the edge of the face while your hand follows along. The lines wander, and that is expected. One round in the Without looking group is exactly this.

Can a class or a party play?

Yes. Choose For a group in the menu. Those rounds move people round a table, pass pages along a row or put everyone on one long sheet, and the portraits go to the people in them.