This week, though, I have been setting up a new-to-me computer [1] as a "creating things" workstation, and meanwhile
One of the great things about having kids is the reminder that one can enjoy doing artistic scribbles without doing Great Art or even doing anything particularly skillful, and that there's no shame in doing that. Also the reminder that, if one doesn't know what to draw, houses or stick figures or stylized animals are a good starting place.
And so I had fun, which is behind a cut tag so as not to overfill your virtual refrigerator with scribbles.
This is Bob. Bob started as a crosshatched circle, in which I learned that the stylus wants rather more pressure than I'm used to from computer input devices (and, for that matter, from many drawing implements). Bob then got a head, arms, feet, a hat, a pocket, and a necktie. And then some color.
I'm not sure if this bird is a Thrush-Bob (in
So, I had fun, and I've now stuck the "art" up on my virtual refrigerator for you to admire, as is the proper thing to do with art of this sort.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth (original here), with