- Horse
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep drawing inspiration from people every day. All of a sudden, something strikes me so hard and dramatically, and then a dream comes - I sit down, cut it off and make a script out of it.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for centuries. It's like what they say about the perfect picture book. The art and the text stand alone, but together, they create something even better. Kids who need to can grab onto those graphic elements and find their way into the story.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.
- Nov 07, 2020
I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
- Nov 07, 2020
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
- Nov 07, 2020
Even if you're drawing a cartoon and exaggerating, you want to capture something true about the person.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always called myself a journalist who happens to draw. If I wasn't drawing cartoons, I'd be writing stories.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're drawing something, you kind of run a movie in your head. You might close your eyes or stare into the distance and kind of see a movie unfolding and, you know, grab a certain moment or think, 'Oh, yeah, that's when we need just the point that he appears around the corner but just as she's getting into the car,' you know?
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always start drawing any job by planning out to some degree the locales and trying to nail the characters. If they're existing characters, I'll draw them several times on rough paper just to get a feeling for them. The ideal when you're drawing a comic is to have everything in your head, not to have to refer to notes.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020