Friday 23 March 2018

The Art of Youth

Did you draw stuff as a kid?

Maybe doodles of cars or sketches of spaceships?

I was always drawing something somewhere.

I still am.

Some of the best drawings and doodles I ever saw were in a book my older brothers had open for them and their mates during the late Sixties and early Seventies. 

It laid around in the boys' room along with Creepy, Eerie and MAD mags scattered about.

It contained perhaps the single most brilliant pen sketch I've ever seen. It was of a Roman Centurion's head by one of my brothers' mates called Kevin.

Did you doodle or draw as kid and are you still doodling and drawing readers?


6 comments:

  1. I was an arty kid, Woodsy. I enjoyed doodling and drawing right through into my late teens. As things go, it was cheap, absorbing and very satisfying. My retirement plan is to get a sketch pad and start all over again. Not for a few years yet though :)

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    1. a super retirement plan that Tone. Drawing your pension! ha ha

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    2. Aah, good one Woodsy... ha ha... :D

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  2. Yes, now do it to earn most of my living, although the doodles have become a bit complicated!

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  3. No, I sort of picked it all up as I went along- still just doodling, really!

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