ABSTRACT
MS: When you’re working, how do you like to work? Do you blue-line first? Do you work straight with pen? How do you work?
AS: When I started doing them in New York City, everybody there, if they were finishing in black and white, they used ink. Nobody did boards in pencil and just turned them in. If you were doing color, you needed your ink to hold the marker color that you were putting down. After working with you and finding out that you can take a nice pencil board and just keep it as clean as possible and then go ahead and just Xerox it, and then color the copy if you need color. You’re maintaining a certain organic quality to the look of the art, which I think makes it look a lot more spontaneous and a lot fresher. So now I’d just as soon light-blue-pencil a layout first, which will not reproduce on a Xerox machine. Although you have to watch how heavy-handed you get with your blue-line pencil. As long as your lines are pretty light and you just pencil on top of them, you can make a nice, clean copy for presentation purposes, and you can do some nice work that way, by just keeping it as fresh as possible with a pencil look.
