My patience for video-making has increased…(see my other whiny video post here) although I am sure most people take less than 4 hours to edit theirs. Also, their camera mount probably did not disappear all by itself (that’s right), forcing me to make this thing (now affectionately called the McGyver Cam) that was difficult to position. …Anyway, I now have two videos I am not completely ashamed of. (Sorry Mum, ended that with a prepostion.) Here’s the first one – an unfinishedOde to 91 Fourth Avenue – hear the weird hissing noise? that’s the audiobook I was listening to while working at 25x speed. Oops. It is also what happens when you keep working through a major heatwave.
(Sorrynotsorry for the cat video teaser – there IS one farther down the page)
I don’t like making videos (that’s videos of me drawing). Yes, I mentioned that before. I usually put together animations of some kind, if I’ve had the presence of mind to take enough photos while I’m working. I get so far into the zone while drawing that hours will pass before I think of recording at all, so the process has a lot of gaps. I need to be followed around by a videographer (maybe one who also cooks and cleans and makes a perfect Manhattan). Since I am a pencil on paper person, digital recording is not a thing. I love watching the work-in-progress of Pestacular, check it out.
I do like watching other creator videos and they say they’re popular, but that only matters if you know exactly who THEY are and just WHO is watching. So, before I began my last portrait I decided to rig up my own camera setup to record for the length of the drawing. An old Samsung phone, a selfie stick, and some clamps (NO I DON’T HAVE A PICTURE OF THAT LOL) and it was ready to go.
After a few short sessions I had to move all my drawing gear into the house when I l gave up my studio space to Thing Two for a few days so they could get a job done (needed more quiet than I did). I did not move the camera.
A week or so later, I moved my gear back into the studio and resumed work there…until my air conditioner failed. A fan sufficed for a couple of late evenings but at 42° I gave up (only after an evening of very sweaty troubleshooting) so the drawing board was moved back to the house again. No recording.
There’s always something. Life has a way of getting in the way of itself, especially if you’re me. My decrepit house, my dying car, failing equipment (there’s a joke in there somewhere). Sometimes I cook food and eat it, then I have to clean that up. And then there’s the day job. So the marketing/recording part gets…well, gets not done. (Yup, those are excuses.)
And with that round of excuses, here’s what I managed to stitch together. Grab a beer.
