Even if you're drawing a cartoon and exaggerating, you want to capture something true about the person.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.
Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.
You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
Drawing a good picture is like telling a really good lie - the key is in the incidental detail.
I don't really picture anyone when I'm drawing. They just become their own completed person with googly eyes.
I've always called myself a journalist who happens to draw. If I wasn't drawing cartoons, I'd be writing stories.
Drawings don't have a point. Cartoons, you want to have an opinion; you want them to express a viewpoint.
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
Cartoons are not real drawings, because they are drawings intended to be read.