When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air.
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A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.
I work on fittings, mostly. You know, I sketch less and less in my work. I sketch for the show sometimes, but then it becomes more conceptual. But when I don't sketch, it becomes more pragmatic.
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.
You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
The idea of trying to write sketches the same way we did on Saturday Night Live every day would be damn near impossible.
Sketches have characters, exits, entrances and are vastly different.
When you make illustrations, you're supposed to have a subtext; you're not just communicating words - you're actually adding another story altogether.
The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it.
When I'm writing, I'm creating the story and its character with words. I'm thinking about what the pictures will be like, but I never begin to sketch. The pictures are all in my head.