Pen and Ink Quotes

I think comics are faster to draw with a pen and then fill and tone by computer. But my illustrations are all done via computer. I even draw the lines on a tablet.

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.

An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970.

But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.

I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.

I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book.

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside.

My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.

My mom was a biological illustrator for a time before computers replaced that job.

I'm a writer who just happens to draw.

It doesn't use shading, but it does use stroke length variations.