Paul Laseau Quotes

Sketching on a regular basis requires you to pay close attention to the visual world around you. With practice, you begin to see things you never noticed before.

Sketching is a continuing source of learning rather than a string of performances.

Focus on the opportunities, not on the constraints.

With pencil there is a tendency to be timid, either using very faint lines or erasing bad lines... Line sketching tends to emphasize the structure of a drawing rather than the nuances of media.

Please yourself, not others... It must first work for you if it is ever to be useful to others.

While perspective is a handy device to construct imagined spaces, it is not useful, and possibly detrimental, to sketching existing environments.