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20 Minutes of Charles Schulz Drawing Peanuts Comics

This is wonderful: a collection of video clips of Charles Schulz drawing his iconic Peanuts comic strip — “everything I could find of Charles Schulz drawing his Peanuts characters” in the words of the compiler.

Unfortunately, I’m not highly educated. I’m merely a high school graduate. I studied art in a correspondence course because I was afraid to go to art school. I couldn’t see myself sitting in a room where everyone else in the room could draw much better than I and this way I was protected by drawing at home and simply mailing my drawings in and having them criticized.

I wish I had a better education but I think that my entire background made me well-suited for what I do. If I could write better than I can, perhaps I would have tried to become a novelist and I might have become a failure. If I could draw better than I can, I might have tried to become an illustrator or an artist and would have failed there. But my entire being seems to be just right for being a cartoonist.

Charles Schulz: Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In his lane. Focused. Flourishing.

See also a 90-minute compilation of cartoonists working (from the same YT channel) and Chuck Jones demonstrating how to draw Bugs Bunny and other characters. (via open culture)

Discussion  3 comments

CW Moss

Thanks for showing me my new favorite video. Happy Friday to you too, Jason!

Jody Tate

This kinda thing is why I visit the site everyday

Moira

I'm struck by how his drawings become so simple as he gets older, sort of mimicking Picasso's drawing of a bull, but also this reminds me that towards the end of his life we were privy to his drawings also becoming noticeably shakier. I loved (and still love) that we got to see that transformation. Peanuts taught us so much, including, if unintentionally, about mortality.

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