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I had meant to post this some weeks ago but forgot to. My 16 year old son always draws each family member a birthday card. He’s nowhere near as good an artist as you are yet but I think he’s got the knack for it. I wish he’d pursue his drawing more, I think he’s got a lot of potential. Anyway, your recent drawing made me think of this gift from my son. I asked my wife to get this framed as my Christmas gift.
https://i.postimg.cc/4yxRDCWZ/30-F56...D0-C494158.jpg
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.
I can. I use a ruler. :biggrinQuote:
Originally Posted by ford man
looks good and keep encouraging him. He has allot of talent and one day you never know he may be the next Guy Harvey.
Heck, I'd buy a print of that!
i will 2nd the motion and buy 1 as well.
You guys serious? If you are I will gladly mail you a copy if you wouldn’t mind giving my son a few bucks.Quote:
Originally Posted by tlefire
I really dont mind mailing you a copy for free if you seriously want one, but if my son could see a little monetary gain from his work he’d be more inclined to take this serious.
i do not mind donating for a good cause.
Me either....PM me an address and it will be on it's way.Quote:
Originally Posted by gatoloco
Guys thanks for response it really will mean the world to my son. I got him to read the thread the other night. He’s gonna be blown away to know some of you want a copy of it. The drawing means a whole lot to me because he took several hours out of his busy schedule to draw it just especially for me. I never expected anyone would want a copy.
He really is a great kid. He’s kind, polite, a straight A student (my wife/his momma is a school teacher and she cracks the whip on schoolwork) He’s also very involved with the youth group at our church and he is also the captain of the drum line for the marching band. So, even though he’s a kid, taking 2 hours to draw your dad a picture takes some selflessness. He’s a much better young man than I was at that age and surely a much better than I am now. I do appreciate every comment and every offer to get a copy of the drawing. I will however not accept nor allow him to accept any donations unless you want a “print” in return. If you would like a print of the drawing I will mail you one and you can send him back $1 or $5 or whatever suits you. If you would like a copy just send me a PM as a couple of you have already done and I’ll send you a copy. I’ll take them to a print shop and have the print made on good paper. Whatever paper they recommend or if Special K tells me what to get, I will get that.
Before I can do that, I’ll have to find out what his momma did with the drawing.
Great job!
It seems we have some real artists here.
It would be really cool for all of the artistic members to submit a drawing for the next calendar. 12 months of fishing sketches.
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Nice drawing and yes he should probably work on it to see where it goes.
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