Artist: Drawing All the Time

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Dec. 27, 2007

I love to draw stories. You don't need to write down words to make a story. If you draw pictures just so you can look at a series of them and remember the exact words that go with each picture. You can draw action lines to remind you of things. This is how all my stories begin--in my big black books with no words written down. Also, I should say, that some of my books are not the big black kind but the white thicker kind that Mama Cris got me from the printer that works for Windstorm Creative. These books are much thicker but they are not hardbacks like my black books are. I like both kinds.

I only draw with a Fine point black Sharpie permanent marker. As soon as they start to run out I can't draw with them any more because the lines don't look right. Then I give the Sharpies to my moms and they can use them for a while to write things.

I want to try out the Fly Fusion Pen. When you draw with it the drawings are automatically scanned. The lines aren't thick and dark though so I have to try it out. I'm going to ask for one for my birthday.

Sometimes I draw very, very fast because I have so many ideas. I don't make mistakes I just see in my mind exactly what I need to make and then draw the story in a set of pictures.

After I am done drawing a story, I tell it out loud to Mama Jenn and she types exactly what I say. I stand by her and tell her if she gets a word wrong on accident. She asks me questions about the story afterward and gets excited when her favorite characters appear which are Baby Squirrel and SpikeSlug. She also likes Math Bird because he's cute and she likes math like me but Math Bird doesn't appear too much in my stories).

The next step is to scan the pictures on the scanner. Then the scans of the pictures and the typed up words get put into a book layout and the book gets published. To publish a book you can't just print it. You have to tell R.R. Bowker about it and all the distributors about it and Amazon.com and other stores about it. You also have to layout the cover different from the inside of the book. You have to send copies of the book to magazines to review it to help tell people that the book is at the stores and on the Internet to buy. Also you have to design a special plan to advertise the book and talk about what is great about it. You should have a motto for your books, too. Publishing is very interesting; My family are publishers.

You can also draw on a computer. I draw in three programs. I draw in Microsoft Publisher using shapes. You can make any picture in shapes. Then I turn the pictures into a PDFs and put in sounds and links to make games. I draw in Microsoft Paint using the black paintbrush tool to make series of pictures. Then I stitch the pictures together to make animated gifs. The last program I draw in on the computer is Bryce. This program is also all about shapes but the shapes are cones, cubes and spheres which are 3D so you can make things that look so real.

I draw every day. I especially draw for hours after I play a video game or run in the woods or play on mine and Faith's pirate ship. I get good ideas when I read riddle books, too.