ICM - Leeds Design Agency

Between 9am on Friday 14th Jan and 9am on Saturday 15th Jan illustrator Johanna Basford worked her way through 13 pens as she illustrated 266 tweets from her Twitter followers.

With her blank artboard under the scrutiny of a live webcam, Johanna illustrated whatever a Twitter user suggested with the hashtag #twitterpicture.

Random suggestions such as ‘God is not a slotmachine’, ‘a monkey with a walking stick and a beard’, ‘a transistor radio wearing ear-muffs’ and ‘the forth rail bridge with a racing dinghy sailing underneath it’ all made the cut and were included in the final image.

Amazingly my own suggestion (I’d only known about the Twitterpicture for an hour or two at this point) made the cut: ‘a self-portrait of you illustrating the #twitterpicture’.

Here’s the end-result:

And here’s a link to a larger version.