Drawing People Is Connection

I love drawing people. Not sure what that says about me, but I try not to analyze, rather just draw. It’s clear to me that people enjoy being drawn, I often get contacted right after I draw someone on a panel. Perhaps drawing is nothing more than about connection.

Below are some live drawings done recently at SXSW, the huge event in Austin, Texas designed for connection. It started out as a Music Festival, which it still is, but now there are talks about culture and politics and education and film. I was there to moderate a panel with The New Yorker called New Yorker Cartooning Now. We talked about our work, the new increased diversity in our field, and generally just had a blast, the most laughing on a panel I have ever experienced! I couldn’t figure out a way to live draw my panel while asking questions, so no drawings of that event, only photos.

Me, cartoonists Navied Mahdavian, Zoe Si, and cartoon editor Emma Allen

Below are my drawings done while walking around SXSW.

THe outdoor “lounge” at SXSW

Panel with the director Paul Feig, writer Jenny Bricks and actors from a new Fox show called “Welcome to Flatch.”

Panel on Breaking Into Hollywood

Panel about New Leadership in Newsrooms

Just some South By-ers hanging out after a tough day of conferencing

More to come, and, as always, thank you for subscribing! I promise I will post more this week, it was just a bit hectic traveling.

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