I draw plays every day.
When I was a kid, I was always drawing things. I'd get butcher paper or grocery bags and draw on them.
I still come closest to success with drawing.
I've always had a good handle on drawing children.
The truth is, I don't know how to draw.
I wanted to be a fashion designer.
I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.
While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.
Drawing is the honesty of the art.
I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.
I enjoy the drawing more than the writing, so I try to think of ideas that will allow me to develop the visual side of the strip as fully as possible.
I'm not a painter by any stretch of the imagination; I'm a dyed-in-the-wool traditional illustrator, and I begin with black and white. If I need colour, I add it over the top. There's a calligraphic element to it... it's about the texture of lines on the page.
There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.
Stop sketching. Start building.
My technique of working is I go around with my iPhone and with my sketchbook. I take thousands and thousands and thousands of iPhone photos. I also draw from life. I can draw really, really, really fast. It's a way that I build a rapport with people.
To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away.
Line is the most powerful device of drawing.
Very few designers today design - it's very important to be able to do your own sketch on paper and then explain [your vision] to the fabric cutters. Instead, lots of designers drape - it's the new way.
Drawing was a constant in how I expressed myself.
There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of learning French, Latin or arithmetic, in a decent and useful degree.
Art was a huge passion of Jeff's from a very early age. He took a few lessons one summer. He always had a huge passion for art. Loved Dali. Jeff drew and sketched constantly.
After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.
When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.
Growing up, I enjoyed drawing, but it was always in the service of an idea. I drew all the time, and I enjoyed making.
