Chris Ware Quotes

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

I'm impressed by the way some illustrators develop their images on computers, but it's too late for me to start, and I'm still in love with paper and paint and pencils.

Technology adds nothing to art.

I'm not much of an art guy but I really do love Shelby and Sandy's work - they look like they're made on a computer but they're hand-painted.

People who draw tend to think they're craftsmen, so they really want to hang onto their pens and papers, but it's not terribly productive. To be honest with you, it's faster and easier to start with the computer.

I wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures.

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.

The fact that biological, or 'natural' rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art.

Currently computer graphics are used a great deal, but it can be excessive.

What I do is create images, period.

Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies. It's just a part of life.

But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.

I've always been thinking in three dimensions, ever since I started working with computer animation in the early '80s.

MS Paint was my creative outlet for many years.

My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.

I think comics are faster to draw with a pen and then fill and tone by computer. But my illustrations are all done via computer. I even draw the lines on a tablet.

I do all my coloring on PhotoShop - it's good and bad: It helped refine my color, but I do miss the texture and organic quality of the traditional.

Being online works really well for any creative work, but especially comics.

In 2-D, the way you draw defines you, but in CG the computer takes away your identity.

I mean, for sure, from my history, I have an extreme fondness for 2D. I think it feels very hand-crafted, and you see the artist's personal touch. I think something about CG makes it a bit more sterile.

Sometimes I sketch and then scan my sketch directly to make the curves more freehand. I don't want to make perfect industrial curves.

You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.

As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.

I am really enjoying media arts and digital painting.