I’ve always said that I can’t draw even a stickman, and for decades haven’t even tried. A few months back my daughter finally convinced me to try to draw some manga character, and surprisingly they actually reminded the originals a bit.
After that, she still had asked me without success a few times to draw with her. This week I, for some weird reason, decided to start practice drawing a bit. I found some nice videos from youtube and followed along those. The results are not good by any standard (except when comparing to those stickmen I drew a long, long time ago), but I am pretty happy anyway.
I still cannot draw a stickman, but I think that if I just keep on practicing, I might someday be quite happy with my progress – and anyway when/if the drawing itself is fun, then who cares about how ‘perfect’ or ‘awful’ the pictures are.
This one was the first I watched:
And while watching I drew these:
Then I found a youtube channel Draw So Cute, where – like the name says – there are so cute drawings. I drew the following pictures along the lines described in videos. Of course, there is a lot of improvement needed, but still, for first efforts, I think those are not awfully lousy.
I hope that I will have time to practice. It seems that there are lots and lots ‘learn how to draw’ videos on YouTube, so teaching is available for many styles.
