Ever since I was a very young child I’ve been into drawing pictures and making sculpture, like carving supermarket boxes when I was four or five years old. My earliest memories are of making art, and I was always the one who was good at art at school. But then time went by and I went from being the best artist in my class when I was six to being the worst at art when I was at art school—the worst at drawing, I should say. My objective drawing skills, relatively speaking, were not that hot compared to other art students. But I think drawing formally from life was just sort of a blip for me; I did that for a while because you have to do it when you study art, but I never quite figured out how I could express myself that way in terms of making what I wanted to make. So then I just went back to drawing the same way that I’ve always drawn ever since I was a little kid, albeit the subject matter changed over the years. Perhaps if you have a name like David Shrigley (or Fred Hembeck) you are destined to be a cartoonist of one sort or another.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 22:35:10 +0000
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