{"id":335,"date":"2013-10-30T19:46:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T19:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/?p=335"},"modified":"2018-06-14T21:07:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T21:07:30","slug":"a-drawing-from-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/a-drawing-from-james\/","title":{"rendered":"A drawing from James"},"content":{"rendered":"

My younger son started drawing last summer.<\/h1>\n

I used to think that all kids draw.\u00a0 My younger son, however, never seemed to want to.\u00a0 Last summer I asked him why; he told me that he was never happy with his drawings.\u00a0 He lacked faith he could produce anything he would like.<\/p>\n

I’m no great artist, but I would say I’m pretty good.\u00a0 Moreover, I’m self-taught (starting about three and a half years ago) and not very talented.\u00a0 A person who lacks talent, yet learned on their own, is usually well-suited to explain a skill to others.<\/p>\n

Like people usually do, James was making the mistake of outlining the subject first.\u00a0 Experience has taught me that’s exactly what not<\/em> to do.\u00a0 People don’t recognize faces by the outline, but rather by the features.\u00a0 “Focus on what’s light and what’s dark,” I told him, “and what draws your eye when you<\/em> look at it.”<\/p>\n

James immediately started drawing with a whole new attitude.\u00a0 I thought he did pretty well.\u00a0 I’ll show you that drawing some other time; today I’m showing you a more recent one that he really wanted me to put “on the computer.”<\/p>\n

By the way:\u00a0 James has his own computer at school, and probably rivals my competence at some day-to-day uses.\u00a0 Of course, he has a Mac.<\/p>\n

Well, James, here’s Santa’s Buddy, for all to see:)<\/p>\n

 
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My younger son started drawing last summer. I used to think that all kids draw.\u00a0 My younger son, however, never seemed to want to.\u00a0 Last summer I asked him why; he told me that he was never happy with his drawings.\u00a0 He lacked faith he could produce anything he would like. I’m no great artist, … Continue reading “A drawing from James”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jamess-drawings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facebooklet.ca\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}