Oekaki Boards - Where the hell are they?

[PotluckBrigand]

I am a casual artist who has recently returned to an Internet that has forgotten me. Here! I've even drawn some pictures! [http://potluckbrigand.deviantart.com/]

I'm passably good at it, but never wanted to make a career out of it or anything (my ego would never allow that anyway), so my favorite thing to do used to be to hit up an oekaki board and chill with other casual artists (and good ones that were there to show off), shoot the shit, draw some pictures, whatever.

But now that I have made my uh... triumphant? Sure. Triumphant return to the Internet, I find myself with nowhere to go... and Google hasn't availed me much in this regard, so my question (finally) is:

Do these still exist? Are there populated ones where people still hang out? The only one I have is iScribble, which serves its purpose I suppose, but is populated almost exclusively by 14-year-olds. I'm not hating on them, they just aren't really my crowd, you know? Is that just an uncomfortable truth about oekakis? Will I have to hang out with people a decade my junior if I want to do some casual group drawing?

If anyone has any good ones, I'd love to try them out. I'm even willing to pay a little bit of money if they require membership or premium fees. Whatever they want... I just want to draw without any pressure.

Thank you in advance, Internet Friends.

 

[Kae]

I can tell you they exist for sure, I have a friend that hangs out in one of those almost all day (she's 19 BTW), I personally don't know where they are since I've never visited one and since my friend is kind of a perv she doesn't really want me to see her work, so all I can tell you is that they are out there somewhere, you just have to keep looking.

 

[PotluckBrigand]

Haha well pervy work is fine as long as it's visually interesting. I understand the feeling of artistic shyness even if I don't share it. The anonymity of the Internet allows for a freedom of artistic expression that is hard to get elsewhere... which is the main reason I always liked communal drawing boards. If all you're into is Naruto, you can just draw Naruto stuff and find a whole board of people who want to do the same.

I'm a little surprised at how few people have responded to this. I know this isn't like an art site, but I figured there would be a few, at least.

 

[Kae]

Haha well pervy work is fine as long as it's visually interesting. I understand the feeling of artistic shyness even if I don't share it. The anonymity of the Internet allows for a freedom of artistic expression that is hard to get elsewhere... which is the main reason I always liked communal drawing boards. If all you're into is Naruto, you can just draw Naruto stuff and find a whole board of people who want to do the same.

I'm a little surprised at how few people have responded to this. I know this isn't like an art site, but I figured there would be a few, at least.

Yeah, Mr. Potluck, people don't tend to respond to art threads a lot, to tell you the truth I only clicked because I didn't know what an Oekaki was, but when you described it it sounded exactly like that thing in which my friend hangs out all day and never let's me look, though I'm not sure I want to see what she draws given that she likes to draw Yaoi.

 

[Monkeyman O'Brien]

Best bet is to hit up the chans. Depending on your art style theres always a chan for you.
Me, I like the guro so yeah. Best of luck. But no matter what chan you end up on, avoid the /b/. ALWAYS avoid the /b/.

 

[PotluckBrigand]

I don't know what the /b/ is, but I am filled with unmistakable dread and disquiet...