I like drawing for it's ability to give you quick gestural, lively results. A painting takes longer. You can make a painting with fast gestural strokes, but the chances of it getting muddy increase. I don't want to lose control. I just want to get loose with my drawings. It's for that reason that I use drawing primarily for temporally based artwork artwork requiring closely alligned exploration, small works and illustrations, and pure exploration.
Sometimes the act of creation is the most important thing to an artist. This series of drawings was exactly that: Draw. Write. Don't think. Just do.
My SMILE series was drawn using Copic and Prismacolor (alcohol-based) Markers.
For this series, I chose drawing as my method of depicting the emotion of happiness, markers for their colorful and quick results, and smiling people as the subject matter. The words in the background are inspired by the act of smiling.