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IGYFT – The Transforming Doodle Game
If you’ve become good at DaVinci's Doodles, then you’re ready for a real challenge. Grab hold of your pencils because you’re about to try the ultimate doodling adventure – IGYFT.
I know, it’s a strange name, IGYFT -- pronounced “iggyfit”. But when my son Todd and I invented this when he was young, every time I’d turn one of his doodles into something strange, he’d reply with a growl, “I’ll get you for that!” The name stuck. Since then, we have filled many dull moments with this gentle, funny competition. I think you’ll find it great fun, too.
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Here’s how you play. All you need is a piece of paper and a pen or pencil for each player. The game works great with two players. If you play with more, just add more pieces of paper. My son Will and I will demonstrate the two-player game.
Step One: the first player draws a simple something. It can be an object, face, person, animal, anything. But keep it simple. Drawing ability is not needed. I started our game off with a face.
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“Not another face!” cried Will. I do tend to draw a lot of faces.
And I should say, this was drawn in the middle of the page, to give Will lots of room to work.
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Step Two: the second player then adds something to transform a part of the drawing into something else. He should turn it all around, looking at the shapes with his imagination wide open. Will turned my drawing sideways and drew…
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… a bird on eggs. Fantastic idea! But there was a problem. It’s too complicated. IGYFT is much easier if the drawings are simple.
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So he redid it.
Much better.
We also decided to use two different color pens so we could see each other’s drawings easier.
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Step Three: now it comes back to player #1. I looked it over and added…
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“Ah! “ Will said. “A helmet! Good.”
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Step Four: The paper goes back to player #2 again. Will added…
A simple sunrise in a window.
Nicely done.
It just keeps going back and forth. Then I drew…
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A pirate. I left the hat open, in case Will wanted to do something with it.
Will: long frown… mumbled: “Iggyfit.”
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He countered with...
… a house on a hill. Or is that a house on a pair of underpants? Just kidding, Will.
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I threw in another bird.
“You can’t do a bird!” said Will (probably still upset at me over the underpants remark). “I already did a bird!”
Well, but my birdie is saying, "My bird house!" I like adding little word balloons at times. It can heighten the smart-aleck factor.
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Will threw in some flying fish. An excellent choice!
Notice the pirate’s hat!
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Seeing my addition, Will remarked, “A cat? How did you fit a cat in there?”
Often IGYFT makes the drawer look at negative space, an excellent way to train yourself to look at things a different way.
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So that’s the game! When is it over? Either when you run out of paper, or someone runs out of steam. There's never a winner or a loser since the fun in is the ideas. And in the end, you'll have a drawing that is so crazy, no one else will ever make sense out of it!
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