Going to so many book events keeps me connected with my readership while constantly reminding me that all the long hours at the drawing desk are worthwhile.
Our nation has a regrettable history of drawing down our forces and readiness after each conflict, only to find ourselve ill-prepared for the next great struggle.
I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.
I love art, painting, and drawing and studying art, like Rembrandt and Van Gogh.
There are no coal plants on the drawing board for Duke, which leaves us with gas, renewables, and nuclear.
It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing.
I find that a really restful, relaxing way to spend time on a plane is to listen to an audiobook while drawing.
I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.
When I sample something, it's just me drawing from what I'm actually into. It's whatever sounds like a good track.
I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing in my notebook. I just tried to express myself through as many creative outlets as possible. And in high school, I started to get really into photography and videography and would spend hours working on it.
To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.
Back in my high school years, the Hulk was my favorite Marvel character, and I always enjoy drawing him.
I've been painting and drawing fish since I was very young. My mom found old pictures I did when I was around 6 or 7 of all these sharks and scuba diver looking back, a big ship, throwing a harpoon. There was already a message within what I saw.
I do feel like animated films really combine a lot of different of art forms: film-making and writing and drawing and painting - to a certain extent, even sculpting. It's a wonderful medium to work with as a craftsman because it's such so rich and so varied and so expressive.
I have the standard cartoonist setup, which is one of those Cintiq tablets, and a laptop. If I'm mostly writing code, I'm on the laptop, and if I'm mostly drawing, I'm on the Cintiq.
We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.
I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs, and how the couches would be situated.
I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.
Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.
Few people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing.
