He could also smell the smoke from the cooking fires in the fishing hovels beyond the beach, and he thought how different the land smelled from the sea, then he obsessively drew the sword he had borrowed from Lord Cochrane an inch free from its scabbard to make sure that the blade was not stuck.

From the time he was 4, the young Clement drew obsessively, delighted by his talent for bringing objects and people to life.

Obsessively drawing every night, Metzger could be found at his drawing board while friends gathered and talked around him.

Like many boys, his chief interests were Star Wars, G.I. Joe, Robotech and superheroes, which he drew obsessively from an early age.

"In this drawing you can really see the work of someone who spent 60 years drawing obsessively," said Will O'Reilly, head of old master drawings at Christie's worldwide.

I long ago learned that it depicted a church at Gelmeroda, and that Feininger almost obsessively drew, painted and made prints of the church for many years.

For many months after his treatment for cancer began, Price was able to do little more than sit in his own room obsessively drawing pictures, as he had done as a child.

Born in 1934 in Uccle, near Brussels, Folon drew obsessively from the time he was 6.

Pericoli, a thirty-one-year-old Italian-born architect who works for Richard Meier, draws obsessively.

Mr. El-Yateem's 2-year-old son obsessively draws pictures of a plane about to smash into the twin towers.