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JeffJag is a Denver, CO abstract artist who posts high quality time-lapse and stop motion videos of his artwork every other Friday. Daily updated Art Blog – http://artblog.jeffjag.com

This video was released a week apart from the others as part of my Awesome October promotion. Check out what it’s all about here – http://youtu.be/-T6IdAEFIzU

This one has been a while in the making, and it’s not the last video I’ll have for this drawing. This is animation progress 15, recorded on September 17th, 20th and 27th, 2013.

MATERIALS:
The drawing is called Amazing Realization, and it is an enormous pencil drawing on a 22″ x 30″ sheet of fine heavy bristol drawing paper. In the drawing, I use many 0.3mm mechanical pencils. I use mostly to HB and 2B graphite leads. I occasionally use paper shaders and erasers to blend the pencil, but again, the vast majority of it is hand shaded using a very careful amount of hand pressure.

TECHNIQUES:
Whenever I’m holding the pencil much further back from the tip, I’m allowing the pencil’s own weight to press down on the paper which makes for very soft shading. I am also not a robot drawing robot, so I use erasers. I use the white plastic erasers that work so well with drafting pencils, and the rubber gray kneadable erasers you can form into shapes. I like those for lightening areas which have been filled in too dark, and to keep my pencils from rolling off my drawing desk when I’m not using them. I use a horse hair eraser brush to remove eraser shavings from the drawing without smudging my work. I sometimes use a latex glove on my left hand to keep the oil of my hand from getting on the paper, and for a similar reason, I put a sheet of paper under my drawing hand to keep from smudging parts I’ve already drawn while shading.

THE STORY:
Last year I started a Kickstarter to make prints of my new drawing, Amazing Realization, for people who wanted them. This is quite an epic project which began in mid November 2012 and continues months into 2013. On January 1st 2013 the Kickstarter was successfully funded at over 200% of my goal. Now I’m just working away at finishing the drawing and doing what I can to show the making-of process along the way. The backers get email updates with new photos showing the progress of the drawing the night I work on it, and I release the photo updates of the drawing daily on my Art blog, http://artblog.jeffjag.com, my facebook fan page http://www.facebook.com/jeffjag.art and my twitter feed @jeffjag (all three feature the same daily content). Check out the kickstarter page and watch the video of me announcing the project on that page. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/112182510/super-detailed-abstract-pencil-art-amazing-realiza

TIME SPENT:
I started this drawing in November 2012 and I’m in the last stretch of drawing in of this video. At the time this video was posted, frames have been captured up through video 17. So there’s a lot left, but it’s getting close. For this video alone (number FIFTEEN), I captured 5,544 frames. Each of these frames was taken between 1 and 10 seconds apart. It varies due to the nature of stop motion and the complexities of drawing with one hand and capturing frames with the other hand. I’ll have a rough estimate by the time I post the final time-lapse project video. Subscribe to my channel and you’ll get it delivered right to you from the friendly YouTube folks.

SOUNDTRACK – “Ultra Jibs” by JeffJag
The soundtrack was created using Moog Animoog and Korg iElectribe apps on iOS. It was mixed in Soundbooth. All composing, recording, sequencing, and mixing was done by myself specifically for this stop motion time-lapse video. The soundtrack is licensed exclusively for this video and is only available in this video since that is it’s exclusive purpose and why I created it in the first place. The track is not available for download or for commercial purchase. (This notice is posted here as proof of my commercial use rights for the song I created just for this video.)

TIME-LAPSE and STOP MOTION
Stop motion and Time-Lapse are used at different intervals during this video. The first two videos in the series were shot at a frame every 5-8 seconds. Later on, I decided to get out my remote shutter release and you can see me holding the button in my left hand as I draw with my right hand. Starting with video 10, I use a wireless shutter release which is super awesome.

WHAT’S WITH THE LATEX GLOVE?
I use a latex glove on my left hand while I draw to keep the oil of my hand from getting on the paper. I place a white sheet of paper under my right hand so I can shade without smudging what I’ve already done. Because I have to move my right hand while drawing, this keeps my hand free to move over areas I may have already drawn without smearing the work.

Commissioned video for Anonymous. (:
Anonymous was kind ample to get me Havaianas flip flops. :3

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Rules for Requesting or Commissioning:
Videos and photos are totally free to request, but commissions are normally done initial. (
-You may well request barefeet, socks, or sneakers.
-You may well request for a video or still pictures.
-You may well request films and photo in black and white or coloration!
-You may well request “crush” or “stomp” films. On the other hand! I will Not make crush films with meat or animals! My films will be one hundred% Animal helpful, For I am a vegetarian and I regard animal rights. ^^
-I will not do films that clearly show my experience or id, I’d like to remain anonymous.
-Although asking for a request you my comment or message me if you are shy. I will retain notes anonymous.

Any problem really feel totally free to request