I meet a lot of different types of teens during our teen
programs. One of the teens I recently met this school year is a good artist.
She shares with me her sketches whenever I see her, and one time she asked what I thought about a series of characters, and wanted to know which I
liked the best. I felt honored that she wanted my opinion since I can’t draw
for anything. She drew 10 or so of the same character in different ways. We
talked about heroes, villains, storyboards, and she was drawing on the back of
scratch paper. I mentioned there’s this one paper that already has the lines
drawn in for you that way you don’t have to draw those in.
Yesterday, I saw her at our program and I gave her a couple
pieces of storyboard paper leftover from a past teen drawing program, and told
her that this was the storyboard paper I was talking about the other time. She
thanked me for the paper, then I handed her another folded paper. I also had made
her a birthday card since she casually mentioned that it was going to be her bday
soon- well, it wasn’t really a birthday card, but I do this thing for my family
and friends where I actually photoshop a picture since I can’t draw and am
cheap, on folded 8.5x11” paper that I think they might like, and then I’d write
my personal message in the inside. It is kinda cheap looking too, but it is my
thing that I do for people, and they seem to like it so I just kept doing it
for years.
Anyways, I made and handed this teen a folded birthday card
with a picture based from one of the characters that I thought she might like. She
unfolded the birthday card and she said, “OMG! That is awesome! Look, that’s
like that character and it is holding a small cake…hahaha…how did you know?”
and before I could respond again, she gave me a hug, and thanked me again. I
felt really happy that she was happy with my cheap looking birthday card. She
told me that September 12th is her birthday, which is today, so I hope she is
having a good time celebrating.
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