Everyone Can Draw

Now go get sketching!

What I love about drawing cartoons is that there are no rules. On a personal level, my best work doesn’t come from a set idea, often I start with one and then the page tells me what to draw. This may sound odd, but I might begin with a line, and suddenly see patterns in the page that shift me to create a particular image. I begin drawing a particular body movement and all of a sudden I am moved to alter it in line with what the page is telling me. In this way, I believe that drawing is in fact almost an intuition, it comes from somewhere un-touchable and even if you do not think you can do it, the odds are you can. Everyone doodles when they are on the telephone, this isn’t just chance, you don’t have to doodle…what strange force is it that compels you to take up the pen and start scribbling when you “can’t draw”? Boredom? Absent-mindedness? Or is it something else? Those little doodles you create, no matter how insignificant you may consider them to be, exist now, you created them, and they are in effect…..a sketch – a cartoon.