#drawing

I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#art student #away #comics #drawing #early

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful. ↗

— Don Roff

#assume #audience #creative #creative-process #drawing

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime. ↗

— Jim Woodring

#more #pantomime #story #takes #tell

I felt the need to get back to painting and I thought the best way was to start drawing, so I enrolled in a life drawing class. I soon discovered that people made very interesting subjects and I am still surprised that I had never discovered it before. ↗

— Peter Wright

#back #before #best #best way #class

There are people who need people to need them. The reason you don’t understand is because you’re not one of those people. You’d use me and then toss me away like a paper bag if that’s what it came down to. God fucked you, my friend. You’re just smart enough so it would hurt you to do that, and just hard enough so you’d go ahead and do it anyway. You wouldn’t be able to help yourself. ↗

— Stephen King

#inspirational #the-drawing-of-the-three #inspirational

I've been actively engaged with mythic imagery ever since I picked up that Rackham book, but it really came into focus for me when I moved from London to the country. As I walked the extraordinary landscape of Dartmoor, I looked at the trees and the rocks and the hills and I could see the personality in those forms...then they metamorphosed under my pencil into faeries, goblins and trolls. After Alan and I published "Faeries", he moved on from the subject of faery folklore to illustrate Tolkien and other literary works...while I discovered that my own exploration of Faerieland had only just begun. In the countryside, the old stories seemed to come alive around me; the faeries were a tangible aspect of the landscape, pulses of spirit, emotion, and light. They "insisted" on taking form under my pencil, emerging on the page before me cloaked in archetypal shapes drawn from nature and myth. I'd attracted their attention, you see, and they hadn't finished with me yet. ↗

— Brian Froud

#dartmoor #devon #drawing #fairies #fey

..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#instinct #judgment #stereotype #judgment

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish. ↗

— John James Audubon

#deal #drawings #finish #first #great

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. ↗

— John James Audubon

#beautiful #did #drawings #more #originals

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes. ↗