Early in his career, cartoonist Mort Drucker attracted attention with his drawings of large crowds of personalities:
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Drucker was able to summon up an endless supply of faces, characters and visual puns. He dispensed them freely, leaving a feeling of great abundance.
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How was he able to fit all those puzzle pieces together so densely without losing the bounce in his line? We get some clues from Drucker's preliminary drawings.
It's clear from his sketches that Drucker was a nimble, talented draftsman. But it's also clear that he worked like a dog. For every sketch of a crowd, he produced dozens of sketches exploring individual faces and expressions that he banked in his private arsenal.
Drucker's atttude about work was, "if you enjoy what you're doing, it's not work."