William Kentridge- Drawing & Animation

William Kentridge is a South African animator who has a really unique style of creating his films. He uses charcoal and draws on these big wall panels, then steps away from the drawing, photographs it... then amazingly, he erases the drawing from the wall panel, and draws in the next frame of the animation... photographs it... and so on. (You can often see eraser marks and remnants of the previous drawings in his films.) If anything the man has saint-worthy patience skills, that's for sure! I discovered his work a few years ago at an art exhibition in Baltimore, and I've always been amazed with his quick and precise drawing skills, especially since it takes me forever to draw something accurately.

Here are some examples of his work from YouTube...



Video documentary about Kentridge and his process (Amazon, US)...
http://www.amazon.com/William-Kentridge-Certain-Doubts/dp/B000QEIZDO