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I Can Often Tell When Drawings Are Done From Photographs, Because You Can Tell What They Miss Out, What The Camera Misses Out: Usually Weight And Volume - There's A Flatness To Them.

I Think Picasso Was, Without Doubt, The Greatest Portraitist Of The 20th Century, If Not Any Other Century.

I Never Talk When I'm Drawing A Person, Especially If I'm Making Line Drawings. I Prefer There To Be No Noise At All So I Can Concentrate More.

Until I Saw My Drawings Replayed On The Ipad, I'd Never Seen Myself Draw. Someone Watching Me Would Be Concentrating On The Exact Moment, But I'd Always Be Thinking A Little Bit Ahead. That's Especially So In A Drawing Where You Are Limiting Yourself, A Line Drawing For Example. When You Are Doing Them You Are Very Tense, Because You Have To Reduce Everything To Such Simple Terms.

I Love California; Everything Is So Artificial.