I'm trying to draw.

And he said, Oh, I teach at a college of arts.

Do you really think a painting can be done by formula?

No. You better start working right away in watercolors and oil.

But, to cut a long story short, I quit school to pursue a career as a cartoonist.

The Special Rapporteur was informed that the painting of portraits at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Herat had been banned.

DP This is just a cool shot, because this is students coming to school after class.

Many people study Japanese so they can read manga.

The classmates all like reading Japanese manga.

Oh, you see. I studied painting in San Francisco, before I joined up.

When you graduated, you went to Paris and you studied painting for a while.

Thanks to a really boring lecture, I started caricaturing my teachers in school.

Drew Berry Animations of unseeable biology

Studied painting didn't do very well at that.

Well, I became a tapestry historian.

We took a page out of XKCD, and we said, Stand back.

So I decided, I'm going to learn to paint by myself.

And I've done it this way for half the audience, who is scientific.

And what happened was, to my luck, I saw a nuclear scientist at whose party I had done cartoons.

Our math teacher drew a circle on the blackboard.

I spent six years thinking about that, but to show you the power of art over science this is actually one of the cartoons I write. These are called HowToons.

And this animation here shows you one example of the techniques that we use, called adaptive optics.

Is being done, right here in Paris... through precise, scientific methods.

Paint!

If you're wired to paint, you paint.

Medical animator David Bolinsky presents 3 minutes of stunning animation that show the bustling life inside a cell.

I became an artist. O.K., and started drawing.

I went off on my own to become an artist, and I painted for 10 years, when I was offered a Fulbright to India.

Paints.

330. The professional education in the fields of music, painting and others is carried out in specialized senior high schools, college and or university (academy).

He is a painter, but he can't paint in the traditional Chinese style.

He's a painter, but he doesn't do traditional Chinese painting.

And he liked to do an exercise with his students where he got them to take a piece of paper and draw the person who sat next to them, their neighbor, very quickly, just as quickly as they could.

So in the studio, rather than drawing, we began to learn how to knit.

I left Bellevue, went to business school and started this.

I like drawing.

But it's the picture. The one in the gallery.

And another thing that I enjoy doing is drawing drawing, because I like to draw, you know, Japanese anime art.

Look how Roberto can make pictures.

Who painted the portrait?

Give me your eyeliner.

There's so much to learn, not only about drawing, but people.

And the painter who painted you all draped in gauze?

The frame itself is worth more than the picture.

How did you draw this picture?