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

- Paul Laseau

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 not…

- Paul Laseau

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

- Paul Laseau

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…

- Paul Laseau

The permanence of ink encourages one to "go for it," to try to put the line right where it should be... continued attempts to place lines accurately …

- Paul Laseau

Focus on the opportunities, not on the constraints.

- Paul Laseau

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

- Paul Laseau

Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, …

- Paul Laseau