Where my daughter will make art for the sake of making art. My son, however, needs a little more black and white approach. There has to be a concrete purpose behind it. It has to be very linear and tell a story. And nothing does that better for a kid than a comic strip.
So now my studio has early drafts of comic strips hanging around. And the best part is it's entirely his own doing.
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