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Drawfee is an American comedy and drawing YouTube series created by Nathan Yaffe and Caldwell Tanner. The series is hosted by Nathan, Jacob Andrews, Karina Farek, and Julia Lepetit. The name is a concatonation of "draw" and "coffee". The opening line is almost always, Welcome to Drawfee, where we take your dumb ideas and make even dumber drawings. The hosts then take audience suggestions and draw them while improvising and making jokes.

The show first aired on Facebook as "Morning Drawfee" on January 14, 2014 and later that year on YouTube on March 26. It is uploaded more than weekly and as of March 2024, the show has over 1300 episodes with over 250 additional VOD's from their weekly Twitch streams and Patreon bonus streams. The Drawfee YouTube channel has over 1.86 million subscribers and more than 430 million total video views.

The Drawfee show has featured celebrities and internet personalities as guests, including "Jazza" Josiah Brooks, "ProZD" SungWon Cho, Adam Conover, Jaiden Dittfach, Hank Green, Brennan Lee Mulligan, and "TheOdd1sOut" James Rallison.

History and premise
On January 14th, 2014, Caldwell and Nathan live streamed the first Morning Drawfee on CollegeHumor's Facebook. The premise was a morning warm-up for the two illustarotrs and their first prompt was to draw the logo. On March 26th, they began uploading to a new YouTube channel.

Episodes
The most viewed video on their channel is "Artists Draw [Walt Disney Animation Studios|Disney] Characters as [Dark Souls] Bosses" with over 4 million views.

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 * Drawfee draft article*

""Drawfee," a title that is derived from the words "draw" and "coffee.""

"It was created by Caldwell Tanner and Nathan Yaffe, and involves a hosting team of four artists who each have their own individual art styles. Yaffe shares hosting duties with Jacob Andrews, Karina Farek and Julia Lepetit, but they also have guests occasionally."

"The "Drawfee" hosts love doing art challenges, so they pick a very weird and specific prompt and go with it. Some example prompts have included “Artists redesign the Looney Tunes,” “Drawing new endings to Garfield comics” and “We turned our spam emails into art.” The hosts use their wit, artistic abilities and innovative prompts to create an entertaining atmosphere."

"I would describe "Drawfee" as a combination of chaotic and quirky. At one moment, someone could be drawing a normal Disney character. The next, the host could be drawing Lovecraftian nightmares.  (Yes, that was a real prompt.)"

"Most episodes of "Drawfee" are about 30 to 60 minutes long"



" CollegeHumor's parent company CH Media laid off the majority of its staff — more than 100 employees in New York City and Los Angeles — in a drastic sale on Wednesday that will likely amount to the end of the comedy website as we know it."

" CH Media, comprising of three brands: CollegeHumor, gaming and entertainment site Dorkly and comedy and art site Drawfee"



"There was a very long line outside the venue on Saturday…but it wasn’t to get in, but rather to get a drawing from the Drawfee gang, who were tabling. The Drawfee Show is a YouTube channel with 1.83 million subscribers, described as a “Comedy sketch show” consists of some charming, funny folks making drawings on screen  based on outlandish suggestions from viewers."

" For comics olds who are cast into despair by their kids watching other people play video games on Twitch this seems like a solid middle ground, anyway.  That folks would stand in the sun for HOURS to get a sketch from the Drawfee crew in person seems outlandish, but think back to what you would have stood in line for for hours when YOU were young."



"a line also formed along 18th street, solely for access inside to the exhibit booth of the popular YouTube show Drawfee. Those fans awaited the chance to get individualized merch from a cast of wisecracking artists, who sketch to fan suggestions. Drawfee’s twitter account later noted that the queue “caused a fire hazard.” Exhibitors in nearby booths grumbled about potential lost sales from blocked aisles, but the crowd of Drawfee fans were emblematic of the eclectic make-up of the festival and the diversity of artists, works, and tastes on display on the packed (and uncomfortably hot) exhibition floor."









"It’s this funny and charming drawing show/Twitch stream/a bunch of other stuff that I’ve been watching for a while now. And they’ve just announced that they’ve finally gone fully independent!"

"So basically, Drawfee was created as part of College Humor that developed into a group of four artists who get together and do drawing challenges while bantering and having a good time. It’s a fun watch. Here’s their channel with just a metric ton of old episodes to watch."

"Then College Humor went belly up in January and the Drawfee bunch has been flapping in the wind for months now, especially in light of the pandemic. Now it seems they’ve finally got some solid ground underneath them."



"Drawfee Game Jam"



"In total, it took Lepetit 18 hours to build Luigi from clay and make a haunted house background, complete with stained wood floors and walls. She even wired the scene so Luigi's backpack and flashlight would light up, sharing that she learned the skills alongside her construction worker father at a young age."