Little Dude Thrashes in Drawing Face-Off

Dan — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:36:43 +0000

Little Dude’s getting into the whole drawing thing. I like to think he’s a chip off the old block, but then I look around and remind myself that christening scribblers as “Mini-Picassos” is a universal point of parental braggery. Let’s face it– most little kids like to draw and there’s a whole refrigerator/magnet industry to prove it. Still, it doesn’t make it any less fun to see Little Dude get better and more creative when he puts crayon and ink to paper. So as long as it’s robots, spiders, “ghostesses” or some thing else that’s “cool”, we’re going through paper at a rate that’s going to quickly endanger pacific northwestern forests.

Sorry.

The other day we had a Beat It-style contest of skill (see it at 3:19)… but you know, with markers instead of knives. The rules went down something like this: I’d draw a robot, Little Dude would draw a robot. I’d draw something spooky, Little Dude would draw something spooky. As it turned out, Little Dude must have been making up the rules as he went, because he started me first and then overwhelmed with sheer volume.

The results are after the jump:

Papa’s Robot:

Little Dude’s Robot(s)– w/ pumpkin, crusher hand, claw hand and skeleton (and lots of antennae):

Papa’s “spooky thing”:

Little Dude’s “Spooky Thing” — w/ ghosts and spiders in a cave:

Since we’re on the whole subject of drawing stuff, Little Dude’s become a fan of the PBS Kids show Dinosaur Train. The other day he just up and decided to draw “Buddy the T-Rex” from memory. RAD.

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Little Dude Thrashes in Drawing Face-Off