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  • I have very fond memories of the Neil Buchanan era — of how quaint, low-fi and distinctly British it was — so my mind was kind of blown when I realized it has since become an international franchise

    • Same! I had no idea there were versions of him in the Red Shirt in different languages, with different faces any everything

  • Funny you post this after I just watched an art attack video yesterday.

  • This suddenly triggered a memory of one specific art attack but I've been scouring YouTube and so far haven't had much luck finding it. I haven't seen all that's available but I'm getting a bit sick of it despite my desire to still see it again. Maybe someone here remembers it.

    • I would have watched it in the 90s I think sometimes between 94-96. But I can't say for sure it wasn't a rerun from an earlier period
    • The particular art attack was a night scene of traffic on what I think was a wet road with a truck or lorry, the perspective is of the lorry heading towards the viewer, though a little bit profile, not directly head on
    • I think it was drawn on black paper
    • It may have been done with white and yellow chalk, certainly I remember the colours white and yellow being used
    • It was demonstrating ideas around being able to hint at the impression of objects at night without drawing the full object, only the outline of parts of it that would be illuminated by light sources which were headlights and smaller lights attached to the sides and corners of the lorry
    • It involved doing something kind of like how a little kid would draw a sun with a crude circle and rays but then some quite clever technique was employed to smudge those little suns and their rays in very straight lines used to trace the hint of outlines of traffic
    • It was finally finished off with some kind reflection on the road surface, don't recall how he did it

    I've going through ep after ep, nowhere to be found. The wiki for art attack has only two mentions of "night" and it's neither of the two mentioned episodes, there's only one mention of "traffic" and it's in regards to using traffic cones. There's a mention of "truck" but that wasn't it either, I checked. There's no mention of "lorry". Couldn't find anything to do with "wet roads" either. Driving me nuts.

    • Oh wow, that's quite the memory to have, and I know just how frustrating it is to search for something that you're sure exists only to find nothing time and time again. (I once searched for a song for 15 years until the artist finally uploaded it to the web.)

      Have you tried reaching out to Neil himself via his various social media? It might be something he did outside of Art Attack but was presented on ITV nonetheless?

      I can only say your description rings a bell for me, but I can't remember anything concrete

  • Absolutely loved this show, I watched it religiously in the morning before going to school as a kid. So yeah, I would say pretty formative!

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