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Serious question, has anyone changed their approach after a kid said something blunt? | Daily Doodle Dump - Chatter Central

veraj53•3mo ago

Serious question, has anyone changed their approach after a kid said something blunt?

I was doodling some flowers at the bus stop yesterday, just messy pen sketches, and this little girl maybe 7 or 8 said 'why are your petals all the same?' I told her that's just how I draw them, and she said 'but flowers don't look like that in my garden.' It hit different because she was right - I've been drawing the same boring petals for years without noticing. Now I'm trying to actually look at real plants before I sketch. Has anyone else had a random comment totally shift how you doodle?

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victor_jones993mo ago

Took her advice and started drawing my dog from life instead of memory. Found out he has a white patch on his chest I never noticed because I always imagined him solid brown. Now I carry a tiny sketchbook everywhere and draw whatever I see sitting still long enough. Kids see things we trained ourselves to ignore.

bennett.mason3mo ago

Wait til you notice how many cracks are in the sidewalk you walk every day. @victor_jones99 your brain edits out all the boring stuff so you can function. But drawing makes you stop and actually look. It's wild how much detail we miss. I started listening to bird calls at bus stops and now I can't unhear them. The world is way more crowded with small stuff than we think.

henderson.oscar2mo ago

That bit about your dog having a white patch you never noticed is exactly what I mean. We walk around with these cartoon versions of everything in our heads and the real world is way more detailed. It's like our brains have a low resolution mode that runs fine until a kid zooms in on something and suddenly you see the pixels. I've started noticing this with people too, not just plants and animals. Like how my friend says she always smiles in photos but I realized she only does it when she's nervous and her real smile is totally different. Kids just haven't learned to filter out the boring details yet and that's probably a good thing to hang onto.