My Vision of the World as a Child.

Hi everyone! 😊

Today I wanted to make a post which strays a little from the subject of art, but not to much! Because as you can see I already had an artist's soul 😁

I wanted to speak about geography.
In fact, since not so long, I set myself the project of redoing my geographical culture.
I noticed that I had big gaps in this subject.
In some situations, people around me spoke about a country, and everyone know where is it except me, and it was a complex for me.
But for long time I just keep in that complex without taking the time to fill this gap.

School left me quite a few holes, actually, because for long periods of time in school, I was just "not at it".
I could be very average or very good, depending on how interested I was in the subject, or simply if it was the right time for me to learn. Because I was a very, very dreamy person.

And so, geography is one of those things I am relearning today. But not only that. Maybe I'll do a publication describing my newfound love for languages (which was not at all a foregone conclusion)

So, how I proceed for learning geography ?
With a phone application.

And when I discovered it, I was asking "how I didn't think of it before !"
It's useful, didactic and yet playful, instead of all the time-consuming and useless applications that can be found.
And I was thinking about why we don't advise this to students, who are so attached to modern solutions and their phones.

The fact of having a little sound of "you got the right answer", it's very simple, but for the brain, it's a reward for learning. it's the most effective. Then we can see our score. It's encouraging.
And also it's more effective than looking at a sheet of paper with all the answers already on it, trying to hide them with your finger and reciting them (although I do love learning with books, tangible things).

As I was learning countries and capitals, I remembered this drawing that I made when I was a child, at 8 or 9 years old. I did that without reference, so it was my vision of the world in my head. And it's pretty funny to see.

It's funny that the American continent is giaaant, we could think that I was an american girl but not at all 😂
I was just a little belgian one.
And, by the way, you can see a cute little red point to show where I lived.
... but for my opinion, it looks more like where I used to live, but in prehistoric times 😂

It's also interesting to see the particular attention I put into representing the fact that the sea near the coast is shallower. but in my opinion the scale is not right, again 🤣

I don't know why I separated the asia in two, but in any case it looks like there has been a nuclear attack on the continent 😂

After seeing back this drawing, an little idea come to me : "oh, and what if I do the same, as an adult ?"

And so, the project is launched! I will draw the world without reference, as I see in my mind, with all the knowledge I have accumulated in recent times.
I will show you the result! 😁

And you, are you good in geography ? Have you ever tried to draw the world by imagination ?

Don't hesitate to leave me a comment of what do you think 😄