Not very many people can draw who are illustrators today.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I am the first to point out that I really am not kind to illustrators. By that, I mean I really don't give that much to work with.
We've lost these qualities, these abilities to do something by hand. Some illustrators have it still, but it's just not art. We have photography. We have cameras and computers that do it better and faster.
I've always been drawn to artists who paint for the everyday person. I love the American illustrators.
People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.
I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.
I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.
Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.
Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.
I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.