Stop Motion Drawing 7: Faola the Puppy by Paul Alexander Thornton

A drawing of Faola the puppy made with a ballpoint pen and felt-tips.

A photo taken every 3 seconds, capturing the process of the drawing being made over 2 days. Continuing my fascination with juxtaposing seemingly 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional elements of drawing.

I also wrote, played and recorded the soundtrack 'Rose's Theme' you can listen and download it for free here
http://soundcloud.com/paulalexanderthornton/roses-theme

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Thank you so much to Mónica M. Ayala Pérez for letting me draw her pet dog Faola! It's very much appreciated!

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[RonHalfon]

It's nice but you don't hold you'r pencil right....

[PaulAlexThornton]

@RonHalfon it's a pen

[RonHalfon]

@PaulAlexThornton so what???

[PaulAlexThornton]

@RonHalfon There's no right or wrong way to hold a pencil or a pen. What matters is results, whether or not a drawing is good, bad, nice or crappy is purely subjective, what is not subjective however is the fact that this video is a pen drawing and not a pencil drawing. That's what.

[MerryAnimationShow]

Do you do a sketch first and then draw, or just go for it?

[PaulAlexThornton]

@MerryAnimationShow Hi, no I don't actually do a sketch but i do a really light outline in pencil, I keep it as basic as I can because the pencil marks show through from underneath the ink and it looks bad it's also hard to rub out the lines once they are underneath the ink without smudging and ruining the drawing. If I'm making a drawing that is not in a film then often i wont outline it at all but the only problem is the risk of getting proportions wrong after the filming is just too much!

[dgreen97]

Hi Paul,

I am quite impressed with your drawing skill!

I'm sure someone has mentioned this before now but, you mentioned that you keep your pencil sketch light so it won't show under your ballpoint.

Have you ever thought of using a permanent thin line (005)Micron or Rapidograph drawing pen over your pencil sketch? You could erase your pencil (kept light) completely with a gum eraser without smearing your final inkwork. The Microns are a couple of bucks, I love them.

Keep up the great work!

[Kawine2000]

1000 photo ?? 1000 picture ?? XD

[VoidFoxy]

Love this drawing, it's absolutely beautiful.Also I was wondering if you'd let me use the song in a video I'll be doing at some point, it has the perfect mood to begin a story I've been drawing out

[VoidFoxy]

@RonHalfon The way an artist holds their utensil is purely based on preference. There's no right or wrong way, it just depends on how the artist feels comfortable holding it.

[SRTD42]

Awesome, until 1:39 still amazing work though

[roseblehh]

Wow, so good. I love how you do your drawings in pen. when I do that i end up smudging or messing it up

[Ptofux3]

so cool. way cool

[LBPMarioDog123]

Where do you get that pen or pencil? Please respond back. :)

[910roset]

wow! i have been trying to draw cats and kittens recently but i find it difficult, maybe dogs will do me proud :)

[moshimonstersrulez]

PLAYLIST!!!