Size isn't Everything. 'Leo Burnett's Faceinterface'

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The ad agency 'Leo Burnett' has a site interface with an animate pencil. It springs to life as the page opens, the marks are yours and wresting control takes only a moment. Opening this page today I realised I was drawing with a digital pencil yet I felt that curious sensation that is so relaxing and hard to pin down, the quiet excitement of drawing. It is an energy that lingers in sketches and sketchbooks (and perhaps sketchblogs). It is, for me, why rudimentary marks can be so much more interesting than finished art, it stays and is not lost by polishing and re-working or re-thinking. Perhaps because there is no thinking or that the thinking and the doing are not yet in-sync as the pencil moves, even in the smallest way. Like life, then.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it

-- Omar Khayyam

The portrait I made or 'Face-inter-face' screen shot is that of ad exec Leo Burnett. The page opens with the title 'Big Ideas come out of Big Pencils'.