You know, I’ve a hunch you have been itching to get into this portion of the book. Well, it is really going to be great fun to create little people of your own, doing anything you want them to. There is nothing hidebound in this plan either. Take it in easy doses for the fun that’s in it. Whether the folks you draw will ever bring home the bacon is a matter of circumstance and how clever you get to be. But it’s worth the effort to get that bang out of being able to do it. When you were. | PART TWO PUTTING THE HEAD ON THE BODY 51 THE COMIC FIGURE You know I ve a hunch you have been itching to get into this portion of the book. Well it is really going to be great fun to create little people of your own doing anything you want them to. There is nothing hidebound in this plan either. Take it in easy doses for the fun that s in it. Whether the folks you draw will ever bring home the bacon is a matter of circumstance and how clever you get to be. But it s worth the effort to get that bang out of being able to do it. When you were a very little boy or girl your brain children probably looked like these. If they did you had a great deal of undeveloped talent and if you have not been drawing ever since it s a real shame. When the little youngster starts to draw he instinctively does a better job than he does later on. He goes to essentials a crude representation of the bulk without the detail. Soon he forgets the body and starts drawing buttons and clothes with a face on them. Result he gets discouraged and transfers his attention to some pretty blond curls or a new bicycle. In all seriousness I say that Nos. 1 and 2 of the marginal drawings have great possibilities 3 and 4 still have hope. But 5 verges on those awful drawings in public places. 52 Now we start with something very much like 1 and 2. For want of a better name we shall call him Doohinkus. All we need do is add some sort of box for a pelvis some pads for hands and feet some balls at the joints and a straight line across for shoulders. We thus give him the following characteristics. Head is a ball. Chest is a ball. Pelvis is a box slanted out at back and in at the sides. The spine does not go through the chest ball but around the back of it. The legs are not straight but curve in to the knees and out toward the foot. Forearm is slightly curved. Chest ball is divided by a line through the middle and flaring lines at the bottom like a Y upside down. The reason for the curve on the bones is that .
