Stick People

It always bothered my young and troubled mind that stick people had no clothing whatsoever. Did they choose this life of no clothes? Was wearing clothing too troublesome for the stick people? Were the stick people community so poor that they cannot afford anything to wear?

Maybe they don’t want to have any clothing on and want to walk around as they do. Call it freedom of action if you will. But most likely the megligent masses were too lazy to draw clothing on for them. Not like I can complain mind you, till I was around 6 my stick people didn’t have any bodies:

My older brother’s stick people had bodies and being the delightful little child I was, I didn’t want to copy him. I mean sure they were anatomically incorrect, but the point is my four year old self knew that plagiarism was wrong and on occasion punishable by complaints to the parent people.

Later on I wondered how would you know which was male or female? You could label them, but how would you ever truly know?

To solve both issues of gender and nudity, my 6 year old self decided that they should wear clothing. The girls would all have skirts and the guys would all have trousers.

And then came the problem that the stick people’s hands and feet stuck out in a weird linear way, thus came the shoes. Sometimes if I was adventurous, came gloves, but this was not very often, because it just looked like they purchased oversized shirts.

After that came the issue of a lack of hair. Why didn’t they have any hair? So long hair for girls and short hair for boys it was.

Then of course came the question of faces, and at that point, since I suck at drawing faces, I would leave it blank on the knowledge that the undrawn face had potential to be anyone’s face and that’s why they wouldn’t have any. Imagination. A powerful tool.