John Obringer didn’t really enjoy other forms of art – like drawing or coloring – as a kid. But he loved his Etch A Sketch, and spent a lot of time perfecting his sketching on the shake-to-erase mechanical toy during long car trips.

“We did a lot of long car rides visiting family that live far away, and this was before most kids had Game Boys or any sort of video games or TVs in the car,” he said. “So, my parents bought me an Etch A Sketch, and I figured out pretty early on that I could draw on that better than most people. I just was able to kind of control the patterns on it better.”

Obringer used it to sketch classic rock band logos, but the habit faded around the time he was in middle school. This past summer, though, he rediscovered his love for Etch A Sketch art when he moved into

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