Riverwind
- RIVERWIND - A black ink and black color pencil drawing on an 11 x 14 size coquille board. It appears in the paperback, "Dragonlance Tales, No.1."
I think I know when, and how, I became interested in drawing pictures. When I was just about a year old or so, I remember sitting on my mother's lap at the kitchen table, watching what she was doing . . .
First, she took a pair of scissors and cut a section of paper from a shopping bag and smoothed it out on the table in front of her. Then, she removed a single edge razor blade from my dad's razor and whittled one end of a small yellow wooden pencil until it came to a point . . .
And then she began to draw a circle at the bottom left side of the paper. Round and round she continued drawing the circle until it became a thick black circle. Then she went across to the bottom right side of the paper and drew an identical circle . . .
Then she drew a line connecting the two circles, followed by more lines that started at the left circle, went up and across, and came back down to the right circle . . .
And then she asked me what the picture was?
I looked at the drawing and it seemed to me that my mother had performed a magic trick. And boy, was I happy when I shouted, "Truck!" She smiled at me and said, "That's right"! And then she cut another sheet from the shopping bag, put the pencil in my tiny hand and guided it around, helping me to draw another "Truck".
We never played at "drawing" again but it wasn't long after, that I tried drawing pictures by myself. Wherever you are Mom, THANKS!
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