William Kentridge on his process
Artist William Kentridge talks about his process of repeatedly erasing and reworking charcoal drawings to create his well-known stop-motion animated films. L…
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Link to some of William Kentridges “Tide Table”
The effect of the rubbing out and re-drawing is partly to give an almost three-dimensional quality to the worked-on areas – it begins to feel a bit like plasticene animation somehow. Maybe because as with plasticene animation, the ‘ghost’ of the previous frame often still survives.
Fab!! it makes me want to dash for my charcoal!! Thank you!