A world which is welcoming and heart-warming, filled with strange-looking people and sad clowns more frightened than frightening. He drew monsters to escape the conformity of the American suburb he lived in (Burbank City) and art became his way out. It has been exactly the same ever since.”People have often compared Burton’s style to the gothic. Later, I discovered his drawings and was amazed. This man is an utter genius.I have always liked Burton’s drawing style – all scratchy, loose and unapologetic – and it is fantastic to see some of his most memorable characters in their initial concept stage.It was really awesome to see all these drawings! He shows life as both kind and tragic, beautiful and cruel, funny and disturbing. Thank you for this wonderful article on Burton’s drawings.I never saw the connections to German Expressionism but I’ve always wanted to adopt a Burton-like style when directing Expressionist plays like Spring’s Awakening or The Adding Machine.Timothy Burton, is wonderful. So Instagrammable: Social Media and the Modern-Day Romance They are both funny and dark and close to Burton’s own style.True film buff, Burton’s inspiration can also be linked to the films he used to watch, mainly thrillers, low- budget films, satires, science fiction movies and cartoons. Encouraged by his art teacher at school, he developed his own style and started to feel a true aversion for authority and categorisation. It is part of his everyday life and he always travels with a pencil in his pocket.
I don’t know anything about Tim Burton, so this was very enlightening.It’s not easy to write an article about Tim Burton without talking about what people usually fall to: Nightmare Before Christmas and Alice in Wonderland. By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica.Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. He draws everywhere, at all time and on everything he gets his hands on. I would cite him as one of my first real inspirations that I felt I could relate too. The drawings alone are breathtaking but the way his films bring them to life is always a marvel to behold.You’ve provide excellent insightabout Tim Burton. Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox.Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. Add hair. His message is clear: people are not defined by their appearances. I didn’t realize Tim Burton drew so much. In terms of colours, he often uses black, white, purple, red and sometimes bright colours too. History at your fingertips Tim Burton after receiving the Leone d'Oro (Golden Lion) for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival, 2007.This article was most recently revised and updated by It is part of his everyday life and he always travels with a pencil in his pocket. The desire and need to produce these fantastical images is an elusive concept that leads one to question where an artist’s inspiration originates and validates the importance placed upon the artistic process as an ethereal attribute. He admires them for the unconventionality of their stories and the complexity of their worlds far from being just black and white. As Rick Heinrichs, producer for I’ve had the good fortune to see the images Tim dashes off to communicate an important thought to his collaborators. Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton’s Split Killed My Dream of Never Cohabiting with My Partner this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. All his independent projects were considered too bizarre to be screened and not adapted for children. Virtually any topic for the virtual learner.