Comments on: How important is it that an Art Director knows how to draw? http://scotthull.com/artists/blog/do-you-miss-your-pencil/ Original art works. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:27:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tyler Darden http://scotthull.com/artists/blog/do-you-miss-your-pencil/comment-page-1/#comment-11060 Tyler Darden Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:55:45 +0000 http://scotthull.com/artists/?p=434#comment-11060 Drawing skill should be requirement of a competent art director. Words are a clumsy way to describe visual ideas and they impede the creative process. So many ideas come from the act of drawing that it would be unwise to not to do it. Many people ask artists when they started drawing. I love the response in one illustrator's interview and I forget the attribution: "When did you stop drawing?" Drawing skill should be requirement of a competent art director. Words are a clumsy way to describe visual ideas and they impede the creative process. So many ideas come from the act of drawing that it would be unwise to not to do it.

Many people ask artists when they started drawing. I love the response in one illustrator’s interview and I forget the attribution: “When did you stop drawing?”

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