Comments on: CHARLES SCHULZ ON HIS PROCESS OF MENTAL DRAWING

By: Austin Kleon

Austin Kleon — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:06:01 +0000

Vasari on Da Vinci from THE LIVES OF THE ARTISTS:

…he was always fascinated when he saw a man of striking appearance, with a strange head of hair or beard; and anyone who attracted him he would follow about all day long and end up seeing him so clearly in his mind’s eye that when he got home he could draw him as if he were standing there in the flesh.

By: Austin Kleon

Austin Kleon — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:10:48 +0000

That reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw yesterday:

THINK! It’s not illegal yet!

Thank God we can daydream whenever we want.

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:17:21 +0000

This is interesting — it reminds me of what Trollope said about his process of writing. He wrote 2.000 or 2,500 words per morning (his rigorous methods were famous), but he said that the real work came throughout the day, when he “daydreamed” about his characters and got to know them so well that he knew exactly what they would do in each situation that presented itself in his novels.