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“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.”

Ifs Trying Character Feelings Jobs Degrees Paper Draws Ideals Notes Drawing Planning Comic Rough Nails

Author:Dave Gibbons

“I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase. For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.”

Use Easy White Paper Drawing Mediums Fantastic Range Erase Charcoal

Author:John Berger

“Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.”

Lasts Easy Lines Forever Painting Paper Drawing Bags Plastic Cheaper Plastic Bags

Author:Marlene Dumas

“When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.”

Men Way Darkness Path Paper Drawing Gestures Sheets Pencils

Author:Alberto Giacometti

“No one can ever take my job away from me. I can always draw as long as I have a piece of paper and a pencil or paints.”

Long I Can Jobs Pieces Paper Draws Paint Drawing Pencils

Author:John Newman

“The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works and in reality the computer has a lot of influence on design.”

Reality Vision Influence Design Building Paper Computer Notion Architecture Drawing Traditional Architect

Author:Michael Hansmeyer

“Think of drawing as a way of talking about the things that interest you. Think of those wonderful documents, drawings made on scraps of paper by the lesser Dutch masters while they were wandering around market places and sitting in saloons.”

Thinking Way Made Interest Talking Wonderful Masters Paper Sitting Drawing Wander Documents Scrap Dutch Saloons Wandering Around Way Of Talking

Author:John French Sloan

“My father would sit and design furniture and cabinets - he was a carpenter and cabinet maker - and I would ask for my own piece of paper and pencil. And when I would say, 'What should I draw?' he would push a cartoon under my nose and say, 'Here, draw this.' So the cartoon became a kind of focus of attention.”

Should Kind Asks Father My Own Attention Focus Pieces Design Paper Draws Drawing Noses Makers Should I Cartoon Pencils Furniture Cabinets Carpenter Paper And Pencil

Author:Burne Hogarth

“All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw. My childhood was like my adult life: drawing pictures with my brother, putting the comics up on the glass window, and tracing the characters onto tracing paper or drawing paper and then coloring them. That and making things was all we ever did.”

Character Kids Childhood Brother Paper Draws Adults Window Glasses Drawing My Brother Tracing Drawing Pictures

Author:Maurice Sendak

“Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.”

Ifs Want Wells May States Enough Form Fall Next Water Lines Example Color Paper Accidents Drawing Shops Good Enough Wet Canvas Provoking Brushes Sheets Flowing Water

Author:Joan Miro

“The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.”

Firsts Littles Bigs Remember Terrible Scene Battle Speech Paper Jokes Drawing Backgrounds Odd Covered Bubbles Sheets Carnage Odd Things

Author:Anthony Browne

“Painting dissolves the forms at its command, or tends to; it melts them into color. Drawing, on the other hand, goes about resolving forms, giving edge and essence to things. To see shapes clearly, one outlines them--whether on paper or in the mind. Therefore, Michelangelo, a profoundly cultivated man, called drawing the basis of all knowledge whatsoever.”

Men Giving Mind Hands Form Color Painting Shapes Paper Essence Bases Edges Drawing Command Outlines

Author:Alexander Eliot

“I do have great respect for painting, but I am definitely not a painter. I make drawings of paintings, and I'm jealous of painting for sure, but, for me, the paper gives my work a limit.”

Giving Painting Limits Paper Drawing Painter Jealous Great Respect

Author:Robert Longo

“I've never felt really creative or intuitive using software. I like paper and pens and paint. I need to angle real lights on my artwork and work with my hands and build props. Computers just take all that fun out of it [animation drawing].”

Needs Real Hands Light Fun Felt Creative Paper Computer Paint Drawing Pens Software Angle Intuitive Animation Props Artwork Paper And Pen

Author:Don Hertzfeldt

“I have friends and illustrators who can't stand drawing on the Cintiq. [A graphic pad tablet used by digital animators] There's a certain tension and friction when you draw on paper that they miss. The tablet is very slick. It's like drawing on glass. But that didn't bother me at all.”

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Author:Don Hertzfeldt

“The difference between what we see and a sheet of white paper with a few thin lines on it is very great. Yet this abstraction is one which we seem to have adopted almost instinctively at an early stage in our development, not only in Neolithic graffiti but in early Egyptian drawings. And in spite of its abstract character, the outline is responsive to the least tremor of sensibility.”

Source: The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art

“Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!”

Past Paper Shadow Empty Drawing

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.”

World Pieces Paper Architecture Drawing Reducing Schizoid

Book:Eduardo Souto de Moura: 1995-2005 : la naturalidad de las cosas

Source: Eduardo Souto de Moura: 1995-2005 : la naturalidad de las cosas

“Sometimes when I am drawing outside - when it is cold out it gets difficult (my hand gets slower when it is really cold) because I do not like wearing a glove while drawing, because I cannot feel the paper right.”

Feels Sometimes Hands Difficult Cold Paper Drawing Gloves

Author:Jason Polan

“I've been creating work by silk-screening images of arms and legs and heads and objects on paper - like drawings of vegetables, guns, hats, whatever - and then also printing sheets of patterns, colorful polka dots and line drawing patterns.”

Lines Objects Arms Paper Creating Gun Patterns Legs Drawing Hats Vegetables Sheets Printing Silk Dots Colorful Screening Arms And Legs Polka Polka Dots

Author:Brian Chippendale

“The Secret of Drawing consists of just two things: 1) Making lines on paper; and 2) Choosing where they go.”

Two Lines Secret Paper Drawing Two Things

Author:James A. Owen

“I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper.”

Paper Casts Drawing Silver Sculpture Ink Bronze Pigment Aluminium

Author:Patricia Piccinini

“[Bernard Leach] was an incredible draftsman, and at the end of breakfast time, for instance, he would push his plate back, and he'd pull an old scrap of paper out of his pocket and a little stub of a pencil, and he'd begin to make small drawings, about an inch and a half, two inches tall, of pots that he wanted to make. And they were beautiful drawings. I really wish I'd stolen some of those scraps of paper, because those drawings were exquisite explorations of his ideas of form and volume in a ceramic piece.”

“If [Bernard Leach] didn't like the drawing, he'd X it out and do another one and change the form a little bit. And when he was all done, he would stuff these pieces of paper in his pocket and go off to the pottery, and when he wanted to make pots, he would then take these out and he'd begin to produce the pot that he had designed on paper in front of us.”

Ifs Littles Done Wanted Form Stuff Bits Pieces Fronts Produce Paper Little Bit Drawing Pockets Pot Pottery

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.”

Ifs Should Trying Years Lasts Artist Saws Heard Sky Willing Succeed Paper Rose Winter Drawing If I Could Outlines

Author:Lucy Larcom

“The space that I can call mine.. is so small that my ideas have become small. I am like a caterpillar in a cocoon of paper; all around me are sketches for sculptures, small drawings that seem like moths fluttering against the windows, beating their wings to escape from this tiny space.. Every day the ideas come more reluctantly, as though they know I will starve them and stunt their growth.”

Knows I Can Ideas Seems Growth Space Mines Paper Window Wings Drawing Tiny Sculpture Moths Caterpillars Cocoons Fluttering

Author:Audrey Niffenegger

“If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.”

Ifs Children Asks Pieces Paper Draws Drawing

Author:Jostein Gaarder

“An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a fourth-year architecture student sitting at his desk at a window, drawing and nursing a cup of coffee as rain fell outside. 'I don't know, I just liked the idea of having this relationship to the paper and the adventure of imagining the spaces. That was the first image that captured me.”

“All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.”

Art Paper Art Is Drawing

Author:John Ruskin

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