Fifteen minutes worth of drawing…

If you have fifteen minutes, take a look at this video of twelve sketchbooks I used for life drawing between 2006 and 2007. Don’t worry, it’s been sped up about doublespeed, so you won’t need to dwell on a drawing you don’t like the look of for very long.

I was going to throw the books away to save space, and decided to video them so I had a record of the drawings. Each book took about 5 minutes of video and after about five were done, I’d changed my mind and wanted to keep the books. Now, I have all the books and a humungous digital file on my computer, taking up even more space.

The drawings are made in ink, charcoal, oil pencil, watercolour and graphite. The audio is a recording taken at the southern end of Killcare Beach on the Bouddi Peninsula on the central coast of New South Wales.

Please note: The life models are male and female and are nude.

The twelve drawing books.

The twelve drawing books.

Horizontal hold…

When I was nine I watched a movie from the forties and the bad guy wore a striped long sleeved shirt and a sailor’s hat. I decided I’d buy a shirt like that when I grew up and in January 1987, I did.

Similar to the actual striped shirt.

Similar to the actual striped shirt.

Parking spot…

The Ford Motor Company used the assembly line idea for building their cars around 1913. I have applied it to my car drawings in this video.

Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black. Henry Ford, 1909.

Five Films to Celebrate Seventy-five Years of Pippi Longstocking…

I’ve been making five films about the author Lauren Child and her working process illustrating Pippi Longstocking and Pippi Longstocking Goes Aboard, by Astrid Lindgren. The films are to celebrate the seventy five year anniversary of the original Pippi Longstocking.

The first film Where Do I Begin can be seen over at staringintospace.me , or you can view it below.

The music is © Soren Munk and Tom Dyson.
Film © David Mackintosh/profuselyillustrated. Permission for use of the film outside of the this website is on request. Please drop me an email.

Don't get out much anymore…

Thanks to Philipp at the Community Bookstore in Brooklyn for asking me to draw while he read a few chapters from The Peterkin Papers by Lucretia P. Hale. Telling stories can’t be stopped even by a pandemic, it would seem. This was via Instagram Live, which is the mode du jour for those indoors. The internet is quite amazing. The Peterkins would have benefited immensely from it.

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