Love Quote by Eddie Campbell

The line lands like a grin you can hear: an artist performing confidence and self-disgust in the same breath. "I'm just drawing it now" is a little act of demystification, tugging the curtain back on the supposedly sacred moment of creation. No grand pronouncements, no tortured genius pose - just the work, happening in real time, slightly grubby, slightly improvised. That casual immediacy is a power move: it invites you into the studio while also reminding you you're not in control of what you'll get.

"It's totally revolting" is the key misdirection. Campbell isn't only talking about subject matter or aesthetics; he's naming the intimate nausea of making anything before it's finished, when every line looks like a mistake and the idea hasn't cohered into style yet. Artists often experience the draft as an embarrassment; saying it out loud turns private panic into a joke shared with the reader.

Then comes the twist: "I'm sure you'll love it". The compliment is barbed and generous at once. It flatters the audience while subtly mocking the marketplace logic that can reward the very thing the maker finds grotesque - ugliness as a selling point, transgression as a product feature. The subtext is a negotiation with taste: if you love what's "revolting", what does that say about you, and what does it force the artist to keep producing?

Contextually, it fits a comics-maker's sensibility: self-aware, anti-precious, suspicious of artistic piety. Campbell's voice treats creation as performance, and the reader as co-conspirator in the messy, often absurd economy of attention.