Sacha Chua - tag - crayon https://sachachua.com/blog/tag/crayon/feed/index.xml Emacs, sketches, and life Tue, 22 Oct 2024 12:03:51 GMT en-US daily 1 11ty I'm learning to draw with crayons https://sachachua.com/blog/2020/06/learning-to-draw-with-crayons/ Sat, 20 Jun 2020 02:16:05 GMT parenting https://sachachua.com/blog/?p=29583 We have a huge box of assorted crayons left over from J-‘s childhood, so I decided to make it one of my life goals to finish the box. Besides, I think A- will develop a stronger appreciation of how fun making art is if she sees me learning how to enjoy it myself. Today she woke up pretending that we were fish, so I drew a fish.

A- wanted to draw one too, so I put my drawing under hers and she traced over it.

I also made this drawing of a cloud a few weeks back. I liked the way adding grey made the cloud feel more cloudy.

I've even been able to use crayons to doodle a sketchnote exploring some of my thoughts. After I scanned it, I used Krita to rearrange and ink it. I'm waiting for the Free Software Foundation's go-ahead to post it on my blog when they put it up on their site (next month, probably?), so you can't see it yet. I like the prospect of moving some more thinking/drawing time into doodling time with A-.

Who knows, I might actually expand my visual vocabulary and learn how to draw non-stick-figure stuff. Yay childhood!

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