Mo Willems: Getting Adults To Draw
Somewhere along the way, we all were artists. Everyone picks up crayons or chalk as toddlers, but at some point, we just stop drawing. Radio cartoonist and children’s author Mo Willems says that’s a pity.Willems is obsessed with why adults don’t draw — and he wants to do something about it.
“One of the interesting things about cartooning and doodling and drawing,” Willems tells Michele Norris, “is that people stop when they decide they’re not good at it. Nobody stops playing basketball when they realize they’re not going to become a professional. The same thing should apply to cartooning.”
Willems says just sitting and drawing a character brings out empathy in people, and that’s something the world could use more of right now.