From drawing to code: the same discipline

I’ve been drawing far longer than I’ve been coding. And yet, it’s the same thing.

Remove what is unnecessary

A good drawing, like good software, removes everything unnecessary. Keep the essential, cut the noise. Simplicity is not a starting point, it is something you earn.

The patience of the line

The patience of the line is the patience of the code. We erase, restart, refine. The first draft is never the right one — in both disciplines, quality comes from iteration.

Maybe that’s why I want to show my drawings here: they say where our way of building comes from.