Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
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.
For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.
I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
Drawing teaches you to look at things properly and to understand form and structure.
My drawing, like that of most cartoonists, is intended first of all to be functional: to create believable space and communicate information. My strongest point in drawing has always been my ability to show characters' nonverbal communication through facial expression and posture.
I want to bring drawing back to the basics, make it about the pleasure that it can afford and remove the notion that it's some kind of precious or difficult activity. It's another way of telling a story.
Drawing was a constant in how I expressed myself.
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating that idea - of making a gesture that is both physical and intellectual.