This is a rather simple project. When you begin, the screen will be black. Position your mouse, and press the up arrow. Voila! You can draw. You may notice after a while, or maybe not, the the pen is changing color depending on where you move it. I will explain that below. If you have a mad desire to cover the screen in giant multicolored dots, press the right arrow key, and up you go. The same technique works just as well for going down with the left arrow. Let's say you make a mistake, you have two choices. You can either leave it, and turn it into something fabulous, or press the down arrow, and slowly smudge it out of existence. Please keep in mind the pen size will increase when you do this, you can adjust it from there. Press the upper key to continue with your drawing. Now, let's say you've played around with this, and now want to actually create something. You can press the space bar, and pen up, screen blank, there you go! And yes, I did make the thumbnail on Scratch. There seems to be a smaII glitch where the thumbnail pops up instead of the pen, just double click the flag, please. For a short story explaining this project, please read the Notes and Credits. :)
When I was younger, I loved to rifle through cabinets, and make a giant mess. I'm sure you've done this yourself at some point. During one of these excursions, I found an unopened pack of paper. Perfectly white, unripped, painted, or scribbled on paper. Living with two siblings at that point, I was thrilled. Upon opening it, however, I discovered the other side of my perfect paper was covered in a thick, black, goo. So, like any respectable seven year old, I decided to get it off. I found a stick, and started scraping. To my amazement, instead of seeing slightly stained white paper underneath, I saw color. It was like a whole rainbow had squeezed itself underneath this black sheet, waiting for me. Being as young as I was, I totally missed the point of being able to doodle multicolored lines with a chopstick. Instead, I scraped the black goo (Which was stained beeswax) off every single sheet in the pack, mostly onto the the floor. I'm sure my mother was thrilled as well. Anyway, I found one of these sheets the other day, and decided to make a scratch project similar to it. Will you make cool designs, or scrape the whole sheet clean, and find the color underneath? :)
