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I hadn't, mainly because I hadn't heard of it before :D
It looks like a great resource though, so thank you :)
Unfortunately, the chances of me learning to draw are slim. I can draw a passable doodle if I can get my head in the right place, but as I said in the post, my imagination is awful. I can't picture things properly, so can't get a mental image of what I want the thing on the paper to look like. I'm waiting on a diagnosis of autism and ADHD and possibly aphantasia. Trying to get things down on paper is very difficult for me.
Before cheap, ubiquitous photographic reproduction, drawing was taught to people as a skill.
You might not be the next Gary Larsen (I'm no dillitente) but I bet if you tried you could become a good illustrator.
Having said that, you still have to learn inking, coloring, etc.
Just wanted to say I think most people can learn the skill in the same way most people can learn to write a rhetorical essay or do arithmetic.
Edit: not trivializing your issues, friend, just offering encouragment!
Becoming the next Gary Larson unfortunately does not equal being a good illustrator
Ha ha, I know. But his work gets the point across.
Don't worry, that's how I took it :)
You make a good point. I need to try drawing and keep practising. Even if it does turn out to be useless for the book, I can still draw with the kids.
I might even make them feel good be being so much better than me! :D
Make a children’s book about practicing skills and getting better at them.
I helped a friend’s six year old daughter learn that by having her make the same paper airplane repeatedly until she mastered it.
Apparently nobody in school had yet taught her that one’s level of skill is not a fixed thing. Before that thing with the paper airplanes whenever she’d try something new she’d see her first failure and then exclaim “oh, I can’t do this!” and then give up.
Honestly nobody taught me about practice making skills better in school either. Not sure why such a fundamental part of using one’s brain is neglected in our schools but it is.
That's a very good point. I'm hopeless at practicing. I've got ADHD, so find it hard to do something that I don't want to do at the moment, and when I was younger I could pick up new skills fairly easily, so never bothered learning properly. I would do as much as it took to be ok at something, then usually stop there.
Yes, and even stuff you might not publish could show what you are looking for to an eventual illustrator you might work with.
Very true. I need to get my ideas across, and that's probably the best way :)