Found this on Flickr the other day.  Click the link below for more….

Charles Schultz Challenge (Shultz drawing pictured here) (via minicloud)

“I’m reading this wonderful autobiography of Charles Shultz and he included a 2 page spread, one page pictured above, from his high school days. Shutlz writes this:

“…Art classes bored me with such projects as making linoleum cuts or doing watercolors of flowers. What I really wanted to do was draw. Fortunatley, Miss Paro’s class in illustration seemed to be the answer. One day she told us to draw anything we could think of in groups of three. Somehow, this was to stimulate our imaginations. I swung into the project with great enthusiasm. I filled the eleven by fourteen inch sheet of paper with all sorts of little cartoons, and it is interesting today to look back at that project and see how I was affected by the times and what was going on in my life…”

Even in high school, Shutlz was a master cartoonist. Look at the way he simplifies things! I’m cowed by him.

I think this would be a really fun assignment to do myself, and I invite anyone else to do the same and post their results. I’m going to recommend this project to my comics group too. So if you want to do a page of threes, link it here please!

If I can even be a fraction as good one day as Shultz was as a kid, I’ll die happy. RIP, Charles.

PS: I am aware that posting someone elses work is probably a violation of copywright, and if you are offended by this please understand that I’m trying to honor this guy and nothing less. “