Faces are characterful, but also wonky and wrong, as if their draughtsman had had no tutelage whatsoever.
I believe that that you can't be a truly great painter if you're not an excellent draughtsman.
However, in my opinion, what lifts him truly into the first rank are his astonishing powers as a draughtsman.
Jackson Pollock, to name but one giant of modernism, is a pre-eminent example – he was a shockingly inept draughtsman – but there are dozens of others.
London was the place of his fame, where he stood in the 1970s and 1980s beside Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, David Hockney and Frank Auerbach, and was perhaps the finest draughtsman of any of them; but he felt a refugee and an outsider there.
The 29-year-old draughtsman from Yorkshire, who moved his home from Brittany to Paris to Ghent, was the only Englishman among that select band of continentals, the cycling champions.
He became a tireless draughtsman and master printer, pioneering drypoint drawing, in effect, with an extremely hard needle on a copper plate that would be inked, covered with paper and rolled under a press.
Who could have predicted an unprecedented £971,750 for Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (a great draughtsman, less distinguished in oil) or £443,750 for the lifeless Abraham Storck, £410,750 for the melodramatic Luis de Morales's "El Divino" (pictured right) or £373,750 for the Master of the Magdalen Legend?
He'd had his fill of it as a young man, trying to be a technical draughtsman and then a quantity surveyor, when all he had wanted to do was stay in his mother's kitchen cooking, and then eating, macaroni with sofrito and sausages, or her special filled pancakes.
She returns the greeting with a gentle "Ciao, Carpaccio .Carpaccio was a masterly draughtsman and his paintings tell uncomplicated stories, some entertaining, some charming.
More typical is the story of an Italian architectural draughtsman who turned to Digital Forensics Bureau, a computer-security firm in Turin, after unwittingly downloading "ransomware"—a virus that encrypted all his files and posted an onscreen message demanding cash to unlock them.
