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Drawfee Show
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| Name: | Drawfee Show |
| Abbreviation(s): | Drawfee |
| Creator: | Jacob Andrews, David Clarke, Karina Farek, Julia Lepetit, Caldwell Tanner, and Nathan Yaffe |
| Date(s): | 2014-present |
| Medium: | YouTube webseries |
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Drawfee Show is an art and comedy YouTube channel. It originally began on Facebook in 2014, as a part of CollegeHumor. In 2020, after the hosts lost their jobs at CollegeHumor, the channel became independent. Episodes are posted every week, where the creators take on various drawing challenges. Often the videos involve character creation, or sometimes fanart of existing media.
The creators themselves engage with and encourage fandom. It isn't unusual for them to suggest fanart or fanfiction ideas in a video, and they frequently create fanart themselves. They've even hired or had on the channel fans of theirs. For example, a fan named Nayaka was a popular compilation maker that Drawfee has hired to make official year-in-review compilations for their channel; and a fan named DeepBlueInk that became popular for animatics guested on the channel.
Drawtectives
Drawtectives is a role-playing game designed and run by Julia Lepetit, posted to the Drawfee Youtube channel. The objective of the game is for the Drawtectives, played by Jacob, Nathan, and Karina, to solve a mystery by interviewing various characters, typically played by Julia, or by a guest on occasion. The interviews involve a prompt given to the Drawtectives by the interviewee which they must draw in order to receive information.
As of April 2025, Drawtectives is midway through its third season, The Midnight Alley.
Characters
Main cast by order of appearance:
- P. I. Jancy True- Julia Lepetit
- Grendan 'Grenda' 'Grandma' 'G-ma' Highforge- Nathan Yaffe
- Gyorik 'York' Rogdul- Jacob Andrews
- Rosé- Karina Farek
- Eugene Finch- Julia Lepetit
York, Rosé, and Grendan are the Drawtectives in question, sent on cases by Jancy True.
Eugene makes his first appearance in season two, The Celestial Spear, in which he has amnesia and joins the Drawtectives on their mission to discover the secrets surrounding the Celestial Spear.
Fandom
Drawfee has a large subscriber base on Youtube and Twitch, and substantial followings on their individual social media platforms. The Youtube channel reached one million subscribers in late 2018, and has been steadily increasing since. They often refer to this as the 'two million creep', the subject of many jokes made across Youtube and Twitch alike.
Shipping
While Drawfee fans are overwhelmingly disinterested in shipping the real-life Drawfee hosts, shipping various Drawfee original characters is quite popular. Plenty of fanart and fanfiction shipping characters has been created, and is often referenced by the Drawfee hosts themselves.
Some of the most popular Drawfee character ships include:
- Sara Pena/Hunter Richardson
- Schmidt/Nando
- Grendan/York/Rosé
- Harper Justice/Rosé
Drawtectives receives the most amount of fanfiction within the Drawfee fandom, likely due to its extensive lore and large amount of content compared to other Drawfee characters.
Example Fanworks
Fanfiction
- be gay do dumb crimes. on AO3: Sara Pena/Hunter Richardson femslash by GrumpyMoony
- speak now (or forever hold your peace) on AO3: Schmidt/Nando slashfic by gayfee
- Soft Like Peach-Fuzz on AO3: Grendan/York/Rosé polyfic by Still_Sammy
- Drawtectives: Vampire's Vendetta on AO3: Rosé/Harper femslash by AnnabethBlack
- Group Projects Suck on AO3: Drawfee host genfic by AnnabethBlack
Fanart
Hot Guy P.I. is a three-issue webcomic created by Karina Farek which stars the characters Schmidt and Nando, who originated in the Drawfee episode Artists Try To Draw The Most Handsome Man.
Rowan is a an experienced fighter and assassin, originally drawn by Jacob Andrews in the video 4 Artists Design Characters from the Same Description.
Drawga is a Dungeons & Dragons inspired drawing series and webcomic (Ladies Book Club) created by Caldwell Tanner, and is the predecessor to Drawtectives.
The Drawtectives embody the found family trope early into the series. In season 2, Eugene is very quickly adopted into the Drawtectives family, and York, Rosé, and Grendan often refer to him as their son.
Within the Drawtectives family, Jancy True is their honorary mother. Jancy taught York how to read, provided Rosé a paid internship, and takes the Drawtectives to Huck E. Heese after successful cases.
