Whether you’re teaching kids to draw, drawing for them, or for yourself, learning to draw like Quentin Blake is enjoyable, rewarding, and won’t cost you 10,000 hours.
(Here, I should probably mention that since I started this simple Quentin Blake practice I have actually become a proffessional illustrator and am publishing books through www.howlingwolfbooks.org , I can say more than ever now that this is the perfect starting place for budding illustrators, so read on!)
I’m no illustrator by a long stretch.
I am however, a primary school teacher and therefore blow children’s minds on a regular basis by drawing things like stick men and apples with reasonable success.
Even with the over-inflated sense of drawing ability this gives me, I am often reminded of my limits any time I try something ambitious or realistic. It usually results in some obscure, offensive, only slightly resemblant portrait (something like those unnerving versions of Mickey Mouse you see on the sides of ice cream vans).