Randall Munroe Quotes

I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.

Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.

But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.

Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.

I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

I am a 'made' cartoonist, but I was born a comic.

But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.

I wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures.

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.

Technologies evolve in the strangest ways. Computers were created to calculate ballistics equations, and now we use them to create amusing illusions. Creating amusing illusions is a big business if you play it right.

I have a BFA in illustration.

I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.

Mostly I wanted to be a writer, though for a couple of years there I wanted to be an animator, because I loved drawing and capturing beautiful movements.

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

I learned a lot about 3D animation from and with my dear friend Michael Hemschoot of Workerstudio. Taught me that I want to play more with animation and image manipulation. Fun stuff!

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.

I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.