Brain Age owners flaunt their art [update 1]

by Conrad Quilty-Harper { May 19th 2006 at 6:30AM }

One part of the popular DS game Brain Age is the drawing mini-game where players are required to draw a picture of, to name a few examples, Mona Lisa, Henry VIII or a bulldozer entirely from memory. As the above examples demonstrate, results may vary! Check out the Flickr pool of Brain Age drawings and don't forget to add your own "creations".

[Via Wonderland]

Update: I misspelled "Brain" in the title. What? It's early!

Tags: Alice, Art, Brain Age, BrainAge, Bulldozer, Flickr, Henry Viii, HenryViii, Mona Lisa, MonaLisa, Nintendo DS, NintendoDs, Wonderland

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Amir @ May 19th 2006 6:36AM

Sp: Brain Age. Liking Henry VIII!

spazbot @ May 19th 2006 7:10AM

I'm cynical as to whether these are actually drawn from memory. For example, surely you can just put a print out of the mona lisa over the screen and draw over the top of it?

BuDn3kkID @ May 19th 2006 7:34AM

"Brain", not "Brian" dude...
Watch the spelling.

Monster @ May 19th 2006 7:50AM

Dude... spazbot (if that is your real name), either you have huge respect for anything that is scrawled by a writing instrument or you are confusing the examples that Brain Age gives with the drawings that people are making.

Neko Tsukimi @ May 19th 2006 8:08AM

OMG, my drawings are so embarrassing. I have never been that nervous drawing for a disembodied head in my entire LIFE! Sometimes... I don't even know what something is and all I can do is draw a big question mark.

ele�tro @ May 19th 2006 8:38AM

Ha! These are hilarious. Now I don't feel so bad about my horrific drawings. I usually just scribble on the screen and hit "Next" (because Nintendo's examples are so ridiculously ornate...and IMPOSSIBLE to do with a little stylus tool) but clearly I just need to have fun with it like everyone else. I am inspired!

puh_fifer @ May 19th 2006 9:11AM

I can't draw for crap, so I do the mature thing and leave penis and middle fingers for when my girlfriend plays and it goes into comparison mode.

madcaliban @ May 19th 2006 9:42AM

lol. i work with 'ROB'. i can't believe his 'work of art' is on joystiq.

Geist @ May 19th 2006 9:43AM

Took me a while to realize that the pictures on the left are the examples given. I was all "holy crap who are these people that can draw like that? And what are these hideous pictures next to them?"

My intellectual future looks bleak :(

Nushio @ May 19th 2006 10:07AM

spazbot:
You never know when the game forces you to draw something, and much less WHAT does it want you to draw.

Sure, once it says "draw the Mona Lisa", you could go look for one, but its so much more fun to get it wrong, and watch your buddy draw it even worse. I love the comparison between player's drawings.

Plaid Ninja @ May 19th 2006 10:32AM

Wow! Who knew my crappy art could earn me a writeup? SWEET! Come on everybody, add your art!

travis @ May 19th 2006 10:37AM

"I can't draw for crap, so I do the mature thing and leave penis and middle fingers for when my girlfriend plays and it goes into comparison mode."

lmfao....jesus...you cant do that when Im at work...that was hilarious...

SymetriX @ May 19th 2006 10:52AM

I don't have a DS yet but I'm hoping to pick up the Lite and this game with it.

Can the game actually check if you've drawn it correctly, or is this just for fun?

Phil @ May 19th 2006 11:40AM

SymetriX,

No, the game doesn't know how well you've matched their pictures. It's more for you just to see how you've done, and it's actually really fun. When you have 2 or more people all playing the game, sometimes the Dr. will show a gallery of everyone's pictures. It's always hilarious to see how everyone else's drawings came out. Brain Age is some good stuff, I honestly can't believe I'm having fun doing Math problems.

Mat @ May 19th 2006 12:03PM

puh_fifer, thank you for that morning lol :)

idioteraser @ May 19th 2006 12:08PM

The drawing exercise is more about getting the mental picture right and fast recall of it.

It doesn't check if the drawing is correct. You can put in a plus sign for all it cares. It then shows you the real image and asks how close it was to your drawing or rather mental picture.

Tukka @ May 19th 2006 1:43PM

It'd be nice if someone developed a pictionary-like game for the DS. One of my on-again/off-again obsessions is iSketch (http://www.isketch.net ... I even created a World of Warcraft wordlist for iSketch when I was obsessed with both games), it would be cool to be able play such a game while not at the computer.

I guess the main problem might be finding players to connect with, due to the whole friend code thing and a lack of a centrallized lobby ... and also the fact that it would lack a single player game.

Though they could release such a game as "Mario Paint DS", have an online drawing game as a minigame included.

mexicantvdinner @ May 19th 2006 1:46PM

My favorite rendition was "backhoe" by Rob:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rhoran/148278603/in/pool-brainagedrawings/

mexicantvdinner @ May 19th 2006 1:48PM

Rob's "backhoe" is pure art at its finest.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rhoran/148278603/in/pool-brainagedrawings/

Don Jose @ May 19th 2006 2:08PM

I'm guessing that the artists whose renderings are shown in the pictures are insanely good at Brain Age, as they appear to have gotten their brain ages all the way down to around 4 or 5.

Marc @ May 19th 2006 3:56PM

This feature on this game says to me only one thing,

Nintendo better be making MARIO PAINT DS. Think about it, wouldn't THAT be cool? Especially if it was Wi-Fi. Then you could show your art to the world. Maybe it would have connectivity for a Wii version.

Now I'm just rambling. (would still be a cool idea tho)