Wall-E
So, anybody’s who has ever met my 5 year old son Jack probably knows about his affection for the main character in the Pixar film named Wall-E. He draws the robot in a very stylized way (his rendering reminds me of the style in the credits sequence at the end of the movie) over and over again, and has gone through reams of paper telling stories and working out scenarios in which Wall-E does this or that, and I absolutely love it. It reminds me of my childhood in which I spent a good part of every day drawing soldiers in battles, futuristic cities, helicopters, cars and even tiny pictograms. I hope drawing becomes a lifelong friend for him as it has been for me.
With apologies to Pixar, the drawing is from memory (the movie has a permanent place in our Roku’s Netflix Watch Now queue) and I take great liberty with the specifics of the character, such as placement of lines, etc. He’s made mostly with the rectangle tool, with some ellipses and Beziers in some places. Gradients were applied to give some character to the surface. Some text was added.
In the interest of getting Jack familiar with other tools for drawing besides media on paper, I’ve begun to give him access to Inkscape and have taken a quiet supervisory approach, waiting for him to get stuck in his experimentation, showing him how to move on, sometimes giving little tips to help him get started. In general, I try to let him play and experiment as he wishes. At any rate, this drawing is for him. I love you, Jack!
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