Tell me that you can't draw....

[fivetails]

...so I don't feel all alone in my miserable attempts at drawing things. :seeya:

 

You'd think I would remember that I draw about as well as I speak Klingon, but nooooo....what do I do? I decide that it would be a great idea to draw a full size map of early Canada on bristol board. From a little picture in a book. How hard can it be? Uh huh. Canada will never look quite the same. :tongue_smilie:

 

Last year, I drew her a tiger - she asked me what the striped alligator was for. ;)

 

I know there are others out there whose hands simply will not create what their eyes see, yes? yes??? :D

[Book Crazy]

My ds has finally worked out that you don't ask mom to draw anything!!!

 

Pencils and I were never meant to be.

 

Cats turn into blobs with two pointed bits.

[tinag]

I can't draw either, so I am right there with ya!

[Lisa in Jax]

Couldn't draw to save my life. Couldn't draw my way out of a paper sack. Can. Not. Draw.

 

Can't sing, either. ;-)

 

I *can* paint (walls), decorate cakes, cook tasty food, make up words to silly songs, find ways to laugh every single day, and procrastinate with the best of 'em. I'm tenacious. I'm creative. I'm intelligent. I'm loyal. I'm friendly. But I can't draw. Oh, well.

 

You have lots of talents. So what if drawing isn't one of them? :grouphug:

 

Lisa

[Carrie12345]

I can't draw to save my life.

 

Well, I can draw lines. With a ruler. I've been drawing blueprints of dream houses since I was in middle school. That's pretty much it.

 

Even my 8th grade ceramics project was a model of my childhood home- created from the actual blueprints.

[angela in ohio]

How's this to make you feel better...

 

I bought into the "everyone has artistic talent if they try" thing. I asked for good drawing lessons for my thirtieth birthday and received them. I stunk so very, very badly. It was awful. I am great at graphic design type things, but I can barely draw a bath, as they say. :D

[amyable]

Stick people. Even they don't look so hot.

 

:grouphug:

[Happy]

Me either.

 

And I would so love to be able to sketch lovely scenes in my notebook. Thank God for photography!

[fivetails]

Yay! More people who can't draw worth a darn. :D

 

I'm not too worried about it with my map - it's for dd11 to use to label all the various early first nations people (she's a crafty kid, would much rather do this than make a list) and she knows what our country looks like, so the fact that the great lakes are now located several hundred kilometers in the wrong direction and hudson's bay has taken on a whole new shape shouldn't throw her off too much ;) .....

 

...but I Must. Remember. that I can't draw and quit thinking 'oh I'll just make her a *insert thing requiring more than a barely straight line*' .....because that results in me sitting on the living room floor at 5am wondering if there's an early bird dial-an-artist in the phone book.:tongue_smilie:

 

She looked at it when she got up and said "mmmm. Not bad. It kinda does look like Canada." ....I'll take what I can get! :p

[Jen500]

I couldn't draw until I took a drawing class in college. It really helped! But, I cannot sing....at all.

[TammyinTN]

I can't draw at all. I would love to be able to...it's such a neat talent to have.

[fivetails]

But, I cannot sing....at all.

 

Me neither - it's a long standing joke in my family that if you want a song to have an entirely new tune, ask me to sing it. ;)

 

dd11 can sing - she's awesome. She copies tunes/notes/whatever perfectly and she can also listen to a song and then go play it on a keyboard/piano/whatever - it freaks me out because the kid has never had any formal music lessons outside of a brief stint with celtic drumming (she just started yesterday with voice lessons at a music academy here) ....she does this weird little humming under her breath thing and then pick, pick, pick, aha! *plays song* ..... it's eerie. Very cool, but eerie. :D

 

Ha, can you tell she's not my biological kid? Lucky for her! :lol:

[sleepy]

 

(but I can glitter)

[clarkacademy]

I cannot draw, don't feel bad I can make a great stick figure that is all.

[Faithseed]

Nope...I can't do it.

 

I think I've finally stopped trying. :tongue_smilie: The internet and printer are my friends.

[mcconnellboys]

I can not draw. So there.

[senunk]

My drawing abilities haven't improved since I was eight, and even then it was just your typical 8yo. When my dd was about 6, she asked me to draw her a butterfly. It looked just like the butterfly I drew when I was a little girl. Sad.

[Heather in the Kootenays]

I've heard that it's a skill that can be learned by anyone so I hope that someday I'll take the time and learn.

[cin]

Not here. Thank God for the internet. I just type in what I want an outline of, or picture, and it just pops up :D

[Tammy]

My mom could draw....two of my children can draw....and my dh can draw.

 

It isn't FAIR.

 

Tammy

[3lilreds in NC]

I can't draw very well, but we started Drawing with Children last year and I learned that if you look at a picture of what you want to draw, it's pretty easy to copy. I've even drawn a passable horse!

 

Now, I would not try to draw a large map of Canada from a teeny one - I am not THAT talented - but I bet you could have drawn a good copy of the little picture. :D

[susie in tx]

I draw stick figures. And, they are very poor stick figures. My children are very sad about this.

 

My dh has an art degree, as does my mil, my sil and her husband. Then, there are the other family members who don't have art degrees, but draw very well. So, I have a lot to live up to.

 

And I draw stick figures. Did I mention that they are not very good?

 

My 4 yo draws better than I do. Now that my older girls are older, they are willing to draw things for the younger ones. It takes the pressure off of me.

[enigma]

I can't draw. And I'm not even all that disappointed. I write. My gift of creativity lies in the realm of words. That's just who I am, and I'm at peace with it. Most of the time.

[~Tara~]

Can't draw. Nope. Can't do it. I think once upon a time I could just a wee bit, but not now. I can't draw a straight line with a ruler. Seriously. :p Nope. Drawing is NOT my forte.

[tibbyl]

I never progressed artistically beyond the primitive childish stick type drawings.

[Guest]

 

(but I can glitter)

 

[clwcain]

I can draft well, but I've never been able to render effectively. Free drawing is right out, despite a couple of years of intensive effort.

[WTMCassandra]

If my daughter had asked me to draw either of those two items, I would have first stared in disbelief and then I would have collapsed into hysterical laughter. Mom. Does. Not. Draw. Mom googles and finds drawing of said item on internet. Case closed. Dad teaches art/drawing--Mom just orders the supplies.

[KatieJ]

My Mother is a wonderfullly talented porclelain artist who could have made a living with her painting abilities, instead she chose to raise a large family. None of her 7 children inherited her talent, but we are all talented in other ways. Sewing, singing, building, cooking, baking, scrapbookers..etc. I do have a great sense of color and what works and what doens't..but draw. Nope, can't do it. Get me a stencil and I can fill in the blanks.

[Desert Rat]

Ha! Not only can I not draw but my poor child seems to have inherited it! I wish you could have experienced the meltdown in our house this morning because my ds8 couldn't write his name in hieroglyphs. Actually, I'm really, REALLY glad no one saw that! It was awful!

You're not alone!

[Mom to Aly]

Even my stick people are crooked. Or were--I have found that I have this weird way of drawing now--if I squint my eyes, and draw in short strokes, I can sort of make a... thing, that can sort of resemble a ... thing.

 

Hey, it is better than I ever did before! :)

[sassenach]

I cannot draw a single thing. at all.

 

However, my dd is quite the artist.

[newbie]

I cannot draw stick figures, both dd's are highly talented.

 

But, I love to oil paint.

[dcjlkplus3]

Lucky for me - and especially our kids - DH is an artist.

I can usually get away with saying "ask Daddy when he gets home.

If you are going to try and do big projects they make projectors specially for people to trace something small into something big.

You learn these kind of things when you can't draw:001_smile:

[hsmamainva]

I've learned that I can draw, if I take my time. It's definitely a skill anyone can learn.

 

And all of my children are wonderful artists!!! My 14yo would love to be an artist, in fact, when he grows up.

[6packofun]

Nope. Can't draw. But my dh and dd can so they can do the drawing! lol

[Once]

I just spent an hour "entertaining" ds at his sibling's soccer practice drawing sharks and divers. I think he told me to put flippers on one diver ten times. I couldn't help but laugh by the end as I just keep drawing over the other nine to make it look better. It. didn't. look. better. :lol: