“I like doing clay work. It's different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold into different shapes. It's quite visual, it's a thing you can hold and feel, and that makes it different from drawing.” FeelsDifferentShapesPagesDrawingVisualsWorking ItClayMold Author:Bonnie Wright
“I know I draw without taking my pen off the page. I just keep going, and that my drawings I think of them as scribbles. I don't think they mean anything to anybody except to me, and then at the end of the day, the end of the project, they wheel out these little drawings and they're damn close to what the finished building is and it's the drawing.” ThinkingKnowsMeanLittlesEndsBuildingProjectsPagesDrawsFinishedDrawingDamnWheelsThe End Of The DayKeep GoingPensScribbles Author:Frank Gehry
“When I'm writing a comic book, I'm thinking about a character that I'm going to be drawing on the page. I've never drawn a character to look like who I want to cast in a movie because I don't think that way. I'm a real monomaniac. I do one thing at a time.” ThinkingWayWantWritingLooksBookRealCharacterOne ThingPagesCastsDrawingComicComic BookOne Thing At A Time Author:Frank Miller
“I think when I'm drawing, I'm seeing what's happening on the page almost as if it were unfolding like a movie in my head.” IfsThinkingSeeingPagesHappeningsDrawingUnfolding Author:Brian Selznick
“It's much more liberating as a artist to feel like you can approach each page and each panel with the way that inspires you the most. I think the thing that bogs down a lot of artists is that you're kind of stuck drawing in a style you've developed.” ThinkingWayFeelsKindArtistStyleInspireLike YouApproachPagesDrawingStuckLiberatingBogs Author:Daniel Clowes
“I'm just finding that when I'm sitting down and drawing the pages, it always takes me in a different direction than what I had in mind in my head.” MindDifferentFindingsPagesSittingDown AndDrawingTake MeSitting DownDifferent Directions Author:David Finch
“For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique. The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know - apart from the more obvious sensual ones - is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols. Making an idea into an emotion.” KnowsFirstsTwoIdeasFeelingsTurnsEmotionSeeingPagesUniqueEmptyBreathsRemainsObviousScreensDrawingCoffeeNineSymbolsCupsSensualStaringThirtyInvitesBlankDeep BreathCoffee CupBlank PagesBlankness Author:Adam Gopnik
“Why did Ted Geisel end up writing and illustrating for young minds? He has specific imagery in the book, and we never would have moved beyond the discussion phase, if we couldn't have found an expression for The Lorax, dimensionally, that was true to the soul of what comes through in his simple line drawings, on the page.” IfsWritingMindBookSoulEndsYoungFoundLinesSimpleExpressionPagesMovedDrawingDiscussionPhasesImageryYoung MindsIllustrating Author:Christopher Meledandri
“One time I covered a wall with 8.5×11 pages of drawings, which made things feel a little bit different in the room.” FeelsLittlesMadeDifferentBitsRoomsWallLittle BitPagesDrawingCoveredOne Time Author:Jason Polan
“That's the type of thing you need to keep in mind when drawing comics. The storytelling. Consider the action and the space available to you, that's what will make it a great comics page. Once you've figured that out, you can always find/make the reference to support your storytelling decisions. So by all means, study film, but as with any reference, the results are better when they inform the craft and not dictate it.” NeedsMindMeanActionFilmSpaceDecisionResultsSupportStudyTypePagesAvailableDrawingStorytellingCraftsComic Book Author:Declan Shalvey
“You've seen the first issue and what happened in the last page. Some pretty awful stuff. I don't know why I seem to be very good at drawing it!” KnowsFirstsSeemsLastsStuffIssuesHappenedPagesVery GoodDrawingAwful Author:Declan Shalvey
“In animation and comics, the viewer breezes past the drawings. But with picture books, each page is going to be stared at and touched and read over and over. Maybe even chewed on a little. Everything needs to be thoughtful and economical, thirty-two little masterpieces.” NeedsLittlesTwoBookPastPagesDrawingThirtyThoughtfulTouchedViewersMasterpieceBreezeAnimationPicture Books Author:Vera Brosgol
“As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.” PeopleKnowsWritingChildrenAnimalKnow HowStrangeGrewGrew UpPagesAdultsBottomDrawingChickensFarmsHandwritingScribbles Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“There is no reason why you should be bored when you can be otherwise. But if you find yourself sitting in the hedgerow with nothing but weeds, there is no reason for shutting your eyes and seeing nothing, instead of finding what beauty you may in the weeds. To put it cynically, life is too short to waste it in drawing blanks. Therefore, it is up to you to find as many pictures to put on your blank pages as possible.” IfsShouldMayReasonEyeLife IsSeeingWasteFindingsPagesSittingDrawingBoredReason WhyNo ReasonFinding YourselfWeedBlankToo ShortUp To YouLife Is Too ShortBlank PagesHedgerows Book:Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home Source: Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home
“He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a manuscript was its old illegible date, the bizarre and strange Gothic characters, the heavy gilding which loaded its drawings. It was its pages covered with dust — dust of which he breathed the sweet and tender perfume with delight.” BookCharacterFormStrangeSweetPagesDelightHeavyDrawingDustTitlesCoveredBizarrePerfumeGothicLoadedManuscriptsOdor Author:Gustave Flaubert