Hey, did you know you can draw a picture with pencils you find on the street? That you don’t really need to spend $1.00, $1.60, $2.66 or $25 on a fancy drawing implement? Of course we know this, so why do we spend this money on these things? What’s the difference? Is there a difference?
After a few weeks of living lavishly in the luxury of expensive art supplies, like a $2.60 pencil and several $25 lead-holders, I went the other way this week and spent an hour drawing an astronaut with some cheap-ass pencils I found on the sidewalk. Really.
These videos have been progressively more ambitious each week, though it wasn’t planned that way. I actually thought just doing a drawing-at-the-desk video would be a simple thing and require a lot less editing. But two cameras created some unforeseen challenges, and then I decided to get clever and shoot the first section outdoors.
I was fully prepared to leave the on-location footage on the cutting room floor if necessary. Mainly I was concerned about the audio. But it worked well. I learned some things about shadows. But I’m perfectly okay with the results. This one is also thirty minutes long. I know you have Netflix to binge, and I went through this with a fine-toothed comb looking for cuts, but I don’t know, it is what it is.1
There is definitely a learning curve here, especially with these self-imposed weekly deadlines. It isn’t easy, but I enjoy solving the problems and figuring stuff out. Hope you like the episode, and the series, and if you’re new here I hope you subscribe.
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And as always, thanks for reading.
-Brian
I’m also in test-mode with the YouTube algorithm here. How much is too much? I watch 35- and 45-minute videos about lenses, and typewriters, and animation all the time. Will people watch 30 minutes of me talking about my pencils?
