One of my first memories of art is when I was nine years old. I know I was nine years old because my sister had just been born and my mother came home from the hospital with a bunch of gladiolas.
I proceeded to take out some colored pencils. I drew a picture of the floral bouquet which resided next to the drawing that I had copied of a cartoon character. The character was a duck named Slappy with a little stick over his shoulder holding his little bag of belongings like the hobos would do back in the day.
I thought the drawing of the gladiolas was pretty good. I continued to draw as I grew up, but I never considered drawing to be something that I would do as a job that would earn money for me. Remember, this pre-dated the current world of graphic design. At that time, the closest college major for using art in the commercial world would be industrial designing. So when it came time to consider college, I checked out the courses that were offered in each major and chose psychology instead of art, because the choices were so eclectic from English literature to language to sociology.
I enjoyed drawing cartoons sketches and thought I’d share this one with you today.
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