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Nicely designed book full of a diverse range of sequential artists' sketchbooks. Heller's narrative descriptions are entertaining and concise, not taking away from the artist being displayed.
Time to pick up my own sketchbook.
Key quotes:
Pg 79 (Kim Deitch)- "[working on large individual sheets] sometimes Deitch will deliberately put his characters in situations that don't seem to fit into a story 'just to get to know a character better, or simply to get used to drawing certain characters.
pg 160- Peter Kuper: "When I travel [sketchbooks] serve as a document of the trip and a way to absorb the flavor of the different places I've visited." [...] His sketches have gotten him food, gotten him out of some close scrapes, gotten him through closed doors, and entertained and interpreted for him when he couldn't speak a word of the language.'
pg 177- Étienne Lécroart: "it is the text that I use for my research. I even describe the picture in words, as I write faster than I draw. If I can do without drawing, I pass [...] These sketches are not done to be shown."
195- Patrick McHale: "sketches are missing the story - they're missing the perspective. When you make something for an audience, you have to guide them [...] My sketches are a jumble of stuff all over the place. It's like a dog without a leash."
pg 212- Rutu Modan- "Sketchbooks are for everything I do [...] I do not have a separate planner. In the sketchbook I sketch, I write meetings, phone numbers, grocery lists, ideas for stories and quotes from strangers I eavesdropped on the bus.
Also David Mazzuchelli's point that one can get discover new interests simply by immersing oneself in different environments, nature, situations etc (pg 210).
pg 216- Saxton Moore: "The first image has the most soul in it."
pg 225- Joanna Neborsky: "Marshall Arisman says that when you begin to make something, you start out deep in ego (thinking, 'What Will They Think?', or the always problematic 'Look, I'm a Genius' until you discover yourself in the rarer state of unselfconscious creation. Then it's just gravy. [...] Sketching is a kind of purposeful wandering."
pg 245- Bill Plympton: "I believe that once an artist begins to rely on an old style and keeps repeating it, his career is done. The excitement for me is the search for a more bizarre and interesting vision."
pg 288- Mark Allen Stamaty: "if you want to be a writer, write [...] it's also an effort to evolve my work, to explore my unconscious, which is, I believe, an essential source of originality and creativity, an effort to discover something new from within [...] it allows [ideas] to come out and [...] resonate with others. [...] if I could explain it, I wouldn't have painted it."
pg 292- Jim Steranko: I treat all [creative assignments] as puzzles to be solved using three tools: imagination, intelligence and integrity."
Time to pick up my own sketchbook.
Key quotes:
Pg 79 (Kim Deitch)- "[working on large individual sheets] sometimes Deitch will deliberately put his characters in situations that don't seem to fit into a story 'just to get to know a character better, or simply to get used to drawing certain characters.
pg 160- Peter Kuper: "When I travel [sketchbooks] serve as a document of the trip and a way to absorb the flavor of the different places I've visited." [...] His sketches have gotten him food, gotten him out of some close scrapes, gotten him through closed doors, and entertained and interpreted for him when he couldn't speak a word of the language.'
pg 177- Étienne Lécroart: "it is the text that I use for my research. I even describe the picture in words, as I write faster than I draw. If I can do without drawing, I pass [...] These sketches are not done to be shown."
195- Patrick McHale: "sketches are missing the story - they're missing the perspective. When you make something for an audience, you have to guide them [...] My sketches are a jumble of stuff all over the place. It's like a dog without a leash."
pg 212- Rutu Modan- "Sketchbooks are for everything I do [...] I do not have a separate planner. In the sketchbook I sketch, I write meetings, phone numbers, grocery lists, ideas for stories and quotes from strangers I eavesdropped on the bus.
Also David Mazzuchelli's point that one can get discover new interests simply by immersing oneself in different environments, nature, situations etc (pg 210).
pg 216- Saxton Moore: "The first image has the most soul in it."
pg 225- Joanna Neborsky: "Marshall Arisman says that when you begin to make something, you start out deep in ego (thinking, 'What Will They Think?', or the always problematic 'Look, I'm a Genius' until you discover yourself in the rarer state of unselfconscious creation. Then it's just gravy. [...] Sketching is a kind of purposeful wandering."
pg 245- Bill Plympton: "I believe that once an artist begins to rely on an old style and keeps repeating it, his career is done. The excitement for me is the search for a more bizarre and interesting vision."
pg 288- Mark Allen Stamaty: "if you want to be a writer, write [...] it's also an effort to evolve my work, to explore my unconscious, which is, I believe, an essential source of originality and creativity, an effort to discover something new from within [...] it allows [ideas] to come out and [...] resonate with others. [...] if I could explain it, I wouldn't have painted it."
pg 292- Jim Steranko: I treat all [creative assignments] as puzzles to be solved using three tools: imagination, intelligence and integrity."
Content Warnings
Minor: Cursing, Sexual content