Thread: Special K!

Nice job. Keep on encouraging your son. That artwork will always be a special bond for you and your son. He has talent.

I agree, that looks good. He definitely needs to pursue his talents

Great job on the drawing! Some serious potential there for sure.

Your son did a good job

Excuse me that it took a while to respond to this thread, but I wanted to prepare as "complete" of a response as possible. First, I want to thank you so much for posting this thread and being so interested in encouraging your son to pursue his knack for and interest in drawing. I agree completely that he has clear potential to be quite good at drawing, because I can see he clearly appears to have a "raw instinct" for perspective and dimensional correctness, which are the "bare bones" parts of drawing--upon which he must encourage himself to build.

I have always heard how drawing is often considered a gift you either have or – as many a frustrated artist will complain – don’t have. Quite honestly, I have never bought any of that for one minute.

I can tell you honestly, while some are born with natural talent, anyone can learn to draw well. The only catch is that like all difficult skills, one probably needs to dedicate many hundreds of hours of practice to become really proficient at drawing; instead of throwing our hands up--and giving up when the first attempts aren't quite as good as we hoped they would be--and trust me they won't be.

Instead, I would insist that we are the ones who (always) artificially hold ourselves back by never really turning on our imaginative thinking, because, it's much easier to come to the conclusion that we’re really not artists. I believe the biggest and most limiting obstacle any of us have in drawing is all of life's distractions that we tend to learn to pay more attention to along the way--clouding our thinking, distracting us far away from creativity and paralyzing our eye to hand coordination. We’ve simply got to stop selling ourselves so short--and (typically) these are the same things that threaten to hold your son back from drawing to his potential--more than anything else will. I've always believed that it is our forming our own preconceptions (prejudices) that so often cloud the way we perceive objects, leading us to "shortcut" or "distort" them whenever we put pencil to paper.

Artists, as so many have called me, have only better refined our way of perceiving objects and then putting them on the page--free from all prejudices, distractions and self limiting tendencies--and quite honestly, that's the hardest part of it. In other words, when you let yourself be creative… free from everything else--the more you or me (or your son) will think and act creatively, the more creative you, me (or he) will become.

Heck, if we only lived closer together... I'd love to work with him by giving him drawing lessons a time or two a week. Thanks for the kind words and for sharing your son's interest in drawing with me.

SK thanks so much for the reply. I’m gonna get my son to read the whole thread

Looks good, definitely got some talent for sure.

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Look's good encourage him to keep it up!I can't even draw a straight line.