STICK MEN UNLEASHED!!!!!!!!

DUN DUN DUN DUN!!!!!!!! Not to be outdone by Dane's new, randomness at Random! series, Henry's hole is back with everyone's favorite drawing, the stick man. Where did they come from? Ever have trouble making your own? This post will tell you everything you need to know about this wondrous creature. Anything you have to add to this Mr. Stick Person?O--<.............. I couldn't have said it any better myself. Enjoy!

The first stick figures were in prehistoric art, such as cave drawings. Many, many years later, people who used images instead of words in their writing, such as Egyptians and Chinese, started using stick men in their writing, as symbols for people. The first international use of stick figures was in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Some Japanese artists created some pictograms such as: ----------->

The pictograms were created for people who spoke different languages, so they could easily understand which sport was which. For example, if you were an Olympic archer, and you didn't speak Japanese, you could accidentally walk into a wrestling match and have an unfair advantage because you could just shoot with your bow and arrow. With the pictograms, though, you could easily tell which sport is which. (Unless you get the softball and baseball signs mixed up. If so, shame on you.)

Wonder how your friends draw stick figures so well? After this quick tutorial, all your friends will envy your great artistic skill. First draw yourself a circle. This may be the hardest part of all. Don't be a square and try and make a perfect circle. Hee hee hee. I made a pun with shapes. Hee hee- OK! Now back to business. Again, do not worry if your circle ends up looking like a demented vegetable, or something like this:
Don't worry. That's completely natural. My first head looked something like that, too. OK, so maybe it wasn't that bad, but it wasn't a circle. Next, draw one vertical line coming down from the circle. Don't try and make this all perfect, either. Just draw a line and be done with it. Don't worry if your line looks like this:

That also is completely natural. Now, your drawing should look like...

All these darn pictures are messing everything up. Now...draw one line going straight through the line you just made. The simplest stick figure is made only with one line to make the two arms, but once you get good at that, you can make two separate lines to show more feeling in the figure. Next, you draw two lines going diagonally down from the body. Draw them going in different directions. Voila! You're done! If you want to get inventive, you can draw two dots for the eyes, and maybe even a mouth!