Not-so-basic drawings about moving the line By Steve Bennett , Book editor/Arts and architecture writer | San Antonio Express-News Updated March 18, 2012 5:45 p.m.

To learn gesture, I enjoy timed life drawing, five minutes or less. Begin with the action line. Next connect the shoulders ...

“Point Your Face at This,” out last week, is 250-plus pages of Martin’s simple line drawings. Mirroring his compact, deadpan stand-up style, each drawing reads like a one-liner.

For the artist Shantell Martin, every surface has a story. It is just a matter of figuring out how to tell it best. When she is commissioned to create one of her trademark line drawings on a wall ...

Like most kids, Demetri Martin used to doodle during class. "Then I stopped, maybe in sixth grade," Martin says. "So my drawing has not really evolved very much." When he dropped out of New York ...