I've done a bit of teaching, but I gave it up - I felt uneasy teaching illustration to people who hadn't yet learned to draw.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.
As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much.
Drawing teaches you to look at things properly and to understand form and structure.
I've been taking art classes for a couple of years; I love to draw.
Drawing was a cheap way for me to express myself. It gave a focus to my thinking and my life from a very early age.
After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.
I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.
The subject of the lesson itself should not become more important that the underlying basis. Drawing thus provides first the written forms of letters and then their printed forms. Based on drawing, we build up to reading.
I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.