Diary comics by kids at a comics workshop in May 2026.

These are comic dairies drawn by elementary school students during a comics workshop at the Singapore Korean International School in May 2026. I love how these kids used simple shapes and lines to convey objects and people. It's so charming. (I didn't get the names of the students so I can't credit each student.)

I like to refer to those very early cave paintings at Lascaux, those were only using simple shapes or marks and lines to tell stories. They were only representative rather than realistic depictions of objects and people.

It reminds me that we don't need so much realism in art to tell stories. Realism in art is good, don't get me wrong! But if your drawing skills aren't so developed in realism yet, and you can draw simple shapes, you can already start telling stories.