Reviving stick figures drawing as readiness initiative for digital art and art-integrated learning

Work of Dr Kishore on stick drawing on the internet

"For kids it is a way of learning to draw and very important to their development in art," says Bruce Outridge, a professional illustrator specializing in caricatures and cartoons is an important part of the illustration process. "It is a beginning stage for most artists and even professional ones. For non artists it may be a great way t get that idea across, try it," he urges

In the digital era, stick drawings have once again gained significance due to the emergence, use of clip art, logo art, design art, icon art, symbol art along the importance of dual coding and art-integrated learning as a pedagogical tools.

For teachers both for on-line and off-line teaching, use of stick drawings is a quick way of illustrating concepts comes handy as most learner are visual-verbal learners, more so the children with learning disabilities or differently abled children as they are called now.

I feel that all kids should be taught stick drawing and diagram making through successive stick figure drawing for readiness to art-integrating learning. For drawing visual codes for objects and action-words can be good way to move towards inclusive education.

SUCCESSIVE DRAWING OF A STICK FIGURE OF A PEACOCK FOR KIDS