Sketch Book for the Artist

ERICH KETTLEHUT

Influential film art director;

draftsman, and model-maker In

the preparation of Metropolis,

Kettlehut and his co-art director

Otto Hunte, together with

cinematographer Karl Freund,

used forced perspective camera

techniques to amplify the

magnitude of buildings in

relation to human characters.

Brush and ink This is a dramatic

drawing from a film that shaped

the history of world cinema.

Kettlehut drew using a fine and

relatively dry brush dipped in black,

gray, and white ink on brown-gray

paper. Working on toned paper

such as this gives an artist greater

scope for dramatic lighting effects

than if they work on white paper.

Fritz Lang's Metropolis

c. 1926

ERICH KETTLEHUT

FUTURE

FICTIONS

PAUL NOBLE
British contemporary artist
who creates monumental,
intensely detailed graphite
drawings explaining and
questioning the geography,
architecture, mythology, and
morality of an invented place
called Nobson Newtown.
His political visions and
satires of humanity are
exhibited worldwide.

Graphite shapes Nobson Central

is one of a series of very large

graphite drawings of the spoil and

detritus of Nobson Newtown. Its

sheer scale engulfs the viewer and

demands time and patience to

be read. Building shapes are

based on letters and in some

works can be read as text.

Nobson Central

1998-99

9 ft 10 in x 13 ft 2 in

(3 x 4 m)

PAUL NOBLE