If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest.
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I'm a believer that you shouldn't really talk about the drawing until you're done with the drawing.
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
It became clear to me that I had to push it toward a more representational way of drawing.
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.
Drawing teaches you to look at things properly and to understand form and structure.
You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.
The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.
I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.
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 used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.
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