I've always been a 'write first' artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Actually, yeah, I am an artist. I draw.
I like to stay artistic. So I always like to draw or write.
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!
I always thought I was going to be an artist. All I ever did was draw. I only ever turned to writing because I couldn't find somebody to write the kind of stuff I wanted to do. That just spiraled out of control.
I was a painter before I was a writer, so I was always a visual artist. And my writing, to me, was always visual.
I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.
Few people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing.
All my work begins with drawings.
I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.