This 10-year-old Graham Shaw TEDx Talk tickles my brain regularly. It happened again yesterday when my wife said the magic phrase, “I wish I could draw.”

When you watch the video, grab a pen and sheet of paper (or iPad and Apple Pencil!) and follow along. I am not an artist, and I was pleasantly surprised by my results when I first watched the video a few years back. Here are three of my attempts from then. I won’t become a cartoonist anytime soon, but I did briefly contemplate the possibility!