My eldest son, BP, likes drawing too. When he’s inspired he can spend ages on a drawing. For christmas last year we bought him two ‘how-to-draw’ books. They taught you, step-by-step, how to draw Disney characters and villains. We are big Disney fans and thought this would be the perfect fit. So far he’s tried three Toy Story villains including Zurg.
Back in September last year I impressed BP with my attempt at drawing Stitch. He has avoided drawing the little alien since then. For half-term I challenged BP to draw Stitch, and it lit a fire in his belly. He spent the whole afternoon sketching. When he’d finished he was proud of himself but wanted to colour it in too. He asked me if I would colour in my drawing so he could watch how I did it. I agreed.
He surprised me with his enthusiasm and he listened to my advice, which is a novelty!
BP's drawing of Stitch. He makes me so proud!
How do you challenge your children?
Awww thats really a nice version! I love to draw as well and I think that my son got that itch too! I am so happy about how we can just sit together and he can draw his stuff and I can do mine =) #pocolo
ReplyDeleteI think it's great that you can both sit and draw together. BP likes to watch me sometimes and see how I do things and then tries to do it himself. It's great when you have something in common with your children that you can enjoy together. :)
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That is amazing! I am so hopeless at drawing but we have a couple of those help to draw books and they are so good. I do like a bit of colouring though. You both did a great job.
ReplyDeleteAh thanks Nikki. Those books are amazing, my drawing of Stitch wouldn't look anything like that without those books!
DeleteColouring can be quite therapeutic can't it? I imagine A enjoys her colouring, which means you get plenty of practice?
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