Page 36 - Sports Illustrated KIDS Magazine (January - February 2020)

“When you can’t think of anything to
draw, draw yourself or draw your pet.
If I don’t draw I’ll lose my job or get
yelled at! I find it helps to just sit there

That’s my and doodle. Just experiment, mess
big drawing around. You don’t always have to know
tip. If you put exactly what you’re going to draw
the eyes before you start drawing. Especially
too far up if you’re not on deadline!”
the face, it
doesn’t look
right any more.
If you put them “There’s a time and place for photo-
the best artists have too high there’s no realistic recreations. But if you’re using
room for a brain. a photo, that photo already exists. We
a distinct style that distinguishes them.
I think once I
When Luke draws Tom Brady, you can tell learned that, don’t need a carbon copy drawing. Let’s
it was Luke. But he says it took him awhile it was like see your spin on it. What’s something
you can latch onto in this image that you
to get there. “I took figure drawing in the key to
the universe. like and you can emphasize?”
high school and I was terrible at it!” says
They look like
Luke. “So I developed the cartoon style people, just
because you can have more fun with it.” stick the eyes “Don’t worry about doing things
in the middle exactly right. Just go for it. Embrace
of the head,
problem your mistakes. And kind of incorporate
“My stuff when I started out was like stick figures, solved! those. Say you’re drawing somebody’s
then it was drawing the Teenage Mutant Ninja There was just body, and you make a mistake. You can
Turtles, and then it was Power Rangers. Draw a huge crackle of just say, ‘Now they’re wearing a striped
thunder as I
your friends. At school, don’t draw your teachers. shirt!’ Or the shirt is black, and color
said that.”
Draw your teachers when you get home.” over it.”

“You have to
lie to yourself
that you’re a
really good
artist until you
are. Say you’re
trying to draw
a horse. Now,
I can’t draw a
horse, per se,
but you just
have to say,
‘This is how a
horse looks in
my universe.’ “

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