Line Work Quotes

I'm not a painter by any stretch of the imagination; I'm a dyed-in-the-wool traditional illustrator, and I begin with black and white. If I need colour, I add it over the top. There's a calligraphic element to it... it's about the texture of lines on the page.

I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.

For painting, I like strong lines, powerful pieces.

I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardee's.

Whether it's digital or physical, a pencil or a pen: line work. Humans are making things. And out of that comes the entire designed world we live within.

Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.

The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.

I really liked Quentin Blake, who did all of Roald Dahl's stuff. I don't think I really got Quentin Blake as a kid, but as I grew older, I really appreciated the kind of knowledge and the skill that went into those seemingly effortless drawings, and I really wanted to capture some of that in my own work.

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist.

Drawing takes time. A line has time in it

Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.

Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! - They will this time be dismissed only by being painted out.

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

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

I look at some of my early stuff - back when I was 12 or 13 years old - and I was already doing cross-hatching back then. I don't know where I picked that up. I think I was in a hurry, and I wanted to shade something really fast, and I tried cross-hatching a shadow.