Drawing Practice Quotes

I've always been concerned with my sculpture. The drawings I do at night at home to relax. And for a long time, I just gave them to friends or my wife and didn't really show them.

When you draw a nude, sketch the whole figure and nicely fit the members to it and to each other. Even though you may only finish one portion of the drawing, just make certain that all the parts hang together, so that the study will be useful to you in the future.

The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one's memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters.

I would like to say to children, 'Don't stop drawing. Don't tell yourself you can't draw.' Everyone can draw. If you make a mark on a page, you can draw.

I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.

I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first.

I used to obsessively draw. I was really good at it.

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading.

Generally I draw every day just to keep my hand in. I draw while I'm sitting on the Tube or in restaurants. Just doodling things and people I see.

If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.

I love to draw, although I wish I was better at it.

I love to draw people's faces. I do that all the time.

People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

I want to put the joy of creativity, of drawing every day, of having a go and being surprised at what one can achieve with just a pencil and an idea at the heart of my term as laureate. I want to make sure people have fun whilst addressing fundamental issues I care about passionately.

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.

After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.

I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn't good at it.

All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.

You have to make thousands and thousands of drawings before an illustration is perfected.