Drawing Your Life; a Recent YouTube Trend

If you are looking for ways to tell people about your life and don’t want to follow the dry convention of writing an autobiography, making a “Draw My Life” video might be an alternative for you.

“Draw My Life” videos have recently gone viral on YouTube and became a new trend on the site. For those of you who are YouTube geeks, you have probably noticed a lot of YouTubers have been posting their masterpieces of “Draw My Life” videos.

Just as much the same as the exploitable templateDraw Your Life, people describe how they have grown and changed throughout their lives by drawing stick figures. They also portray their childhoods or a particular aspect of life in theses videos, for example their careers and relationships matters.

YouTubers usually speed up the length of the drawing process during the videos. Although most of the “Draw My Life” videos are made up of simple stick figure drawings, YouTubers try to engage viewers’ attention by combining their artwork with entertaining and revealing anecdotes about their journey of becoming the popular sensations they are today on YouTube.

YouTuber Sam Pepper uploaded the first “Draw My Life” video on January 8, 2013. Until now, Pepper’s video has accumulated over 800,000 views.

In his five-minute video, Pepper drew on a whiteboard and narrated his life story starting from the time he was born to when he moved from England to Los Angeles in December 2012.

At the end of the video, he tagged fellow YouTubers Louis Cole and Caspar Lee to complete the task as well, in which both of them completed their “Draw My Life” videos in January 2013.

Check out the 10 best “Draw My Life” videos to know more about some popular YouTubers’ life stories and to see their “masterpiece” artwork. Some of them might be your favorite YouTubers!


Story by Sapphire Chan