Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sketching is like dancing. It's process as much as product. You can turn your head off and just sort of dissolve into the now. Doing a giant, super thought-out painting is the opposite of that.
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
Few people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing.
Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.
I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book.
You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.
I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.
It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.
I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.