An artist I'm not
Apr. 5th, 2004 10:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sierciaJust thought I'd share one of my funnier moments of the day...
While I may be artistic with a needle and thread, or with a scrap of yarn here and there, put a drawing implement in my hand, and I am a dead loss. This poses a certain problem when one has a toddler who likes for you to draw on command. Luckily, she's not picky.
Today, first she asked me to draw a teddy bear. Oookay. Kind of recognizible teddy bear.
Then, she asked me to draw a cow. So I draw a vaguely cow shaped stick figure with four legs and a tail. She kind of looked at it like she wasn't quite buying it, so I added a speech bubble that said "MOO", and explained that since it was saying MOO, it *MUST* be a cow.
Then, she asked me to draw a dog. So, again with the vaguely dog shaped stick figure, this time even more lopsided because I listened to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
scirocco's suggestion to draw a sitting dog (because, you know, somehow *that's* more manageable). And again, she looks at it, and me, like I'm some kind of drawing-disabled idiot. So I go to draw another speech bubble, and there's debate over whether a dog says "Woof" or "Bark". She finally decides on "Woof" so I start to write that in. Except she bumps the crayon right at the end, so instead, I now have a dog that says "Woop".
*sigh*
It probably says something about my state of mind that this prompted ten minutes of nearly unstoppable giggles.
While I may be artistic with a needle and thread, or with a scrap of yarn here and there, put a drawing implement in my hand, and I am a dead loss. This poses a certain problem when one has a toddler who likes for you to draw on command. Luckily, she's not picky.
Today, first she asked me to draw a teddy bear. Oookay. Kind of recognizible teddy bear.
Then, she asked me to draw a cow. So I draw a vaguely cow shaped stick figure with four legs and a tail. She kind of looked at it like she wasn't quite buying it, so I added a speech bubble that said "MOO", and explained that since it was saying MOO, it *MUST* be a cow.
Then, she asked me to draw a dog. So, again with the vaguely dog shaped stick figure, this time even more lopsided because I listened to
scirocco's suggestion to draw a sitting dog (because, you know, somehow *that's* more manageable). And again, she looks at it, and me, like I'm some kind of drawing-disabled idiot. So I go to draw another speech bubble, and there's debate over whether a dog says "Woof" or "Bark". She finally decides on "Woof" so I start to write that in. Except she bumps the crayon right at the end, so instead, I now have a dog that says "Woop".*sigh*
It probably says something about my state of mind that this prompted ten minutes of nearly unstoppable giggles.
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Date: 2004-04-07 02:07 am (UTC)Is that you in the icon you used?
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Date: 2004-04-06 06:08 am (UTC)Why do I end up doing all the coloring around here?
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