This is a video I made a while ago, on my DrawStuffRealEasy channel on YouTube, about stick men which I’m adding to this course to show you how simple lines can show so much feeling and expression.
The Course Index can be found here: shooraynerdrawing.com/how-to-draw..
Click the Pdf link below the video on the right to download a sheet with an assignment and all the drawings in the video, plus the rehearsal drawings – can you spot the differences?!
We call them stick men, but they are really stick people – simple shapes that could represent men or women.
You might think, “Oh no I used to draw them as a kid!” But that may well be as far as you ever got in your artistic career, so let’s pick up where you dropped off and work our way onwards and upwards!
The Index for this course is at: shooraynerdrawing.com/how-to-draw..
Click the picture to download a sheet to accompany this video with illustrations from the video and assignment instructions.
I saw a tweet yesterday that quite took my breath away. It was from Martin Daws, the Young People’s Laureate for Wales. The tweet was as follows:
“Year 7 Student today “we don’t need imagination, we’ve got phones and stuff”
I don’t need to explain what is so very wrong about that statement or why it is wrong on so many levels.
As Computers become more and more “clever” and take over more and more of the mundane, everyday tasks, imagination is all we will be left with to be able to compete and outwit other nations, cultures and even the machines themselves.
This Year 7 will probably end up with VR goggles and intravenous feeding tubes, their only purpose in life to be an audience for those who retain and make use of their imagination.
STEM and Academic qualifications will mean nothing in twenty years time. Imagination and free thinking will be king – assuming we are still allowed to think for ourselves. These are “interesting times”, as the Chinese curse puts it, and they are getting more “interesting” by the day.