Drawing Peanuts

Matt dropped me a line to show me this video that he had made, digging through every documentary source the he could find to clip footage of Charles Schulz drawing, including Schulz’s own commentary. It does get a bit mesmerizing. I kinda prefer that there was more strip work than stand-alone images, as so much more goes into that, but it’s still fascinating to see how he can clearly already have something in his brain that he is just tracing down onto paper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poCtWR7nqqM&t=101s

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