- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drawing Quotes
On sketching through hard days and building a world from scratch.
One quote describes drawing as a therapeutic way to work through things when writing feels impossible, and another mentions playing a drawing game with friends just to unwind. For more on the creative process, see our Art quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Next Wave' started as a drawing for a new silkscreen fine art print. I ended up doing the prints digitally because the water-based inks were better for the environment than the oil based inks. So, I learned about the Epson digital printers to get the image I wanted.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover and abstracted the photo image into a drawing. This drawing was laminated onto a surfboard and auctioned to a buyer.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to serve as a graphic identity. After a number of sketches, I went into my own abstract vernacular of drawn lines and shapes to create the composition for the poster design.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look at graphic design as communication, meaning that the work has to have a vibe to connect to the viewer or perceiver. I make a black and white drawing and then add color digitally, bringing in a contemporary pattern to the composition to create a vibrance.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do feel like animated films really combine a lot of different of art forms: film-making and writing and drawing and painting - to a certain extent, even sculpting. It's a wonderful medium to work with as a craftsman because it's such so rich and so varied and so expressive.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
We want to make the best television possible. We should be drawing on the entire available pool of storytellers and directors, and we should be expanding that pool and trying to hire the very, very, very best people. That's our job.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
Drawing must seek interest, not admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.
- Photograph
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lissa Treiman is an artist who submitted a guest strip to me back in 2008 and whose work I've followed since. She works in animation. When I first mentioned on Twitter that I was interested in writing a series but not drawing it, she got in touch.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing.
- Early Work
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- Nov 07, 2020