Look at the sky. It’s not dark and black and without character. The black is, in fact deep blue. And over there: lighter blue and blowing through the blues and blackness the winds swirling through the air and then shining, burning, bursting through: the stars! And you see how they roar their light. Everywhere we look, the complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes. (Vincent and the Doctor -2010)
Yes, that’s not a real quote, but it is a cool way to see the world. I recall as a kid one time realizing, as I was drawing, that what I was looking at didn’t have a nice neat black outline around it… It kind of freaked me out since I was probably 7ish at the time and had to figure out how I could draw something without a line around it. So, of course, I took up cartooning.