Video: Artist draws the lyrics to Bob Dylan’s ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’

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Bob Dylan’s most famous video Subterranean Homesick Blues features him dropping cue cards to the lyrics of the song. Brazilian artist Leanrdo Senna decided to do his own take on the cue cards from the song and explained the process Fast Company:

“I wanted to make something just for pleasure, without pressure for results,” he says. The month-long endeavor resulted in almost 70 individual sheets featuring lyrics from the song; it also represents his (very highly impressive!) first foray into typography, hand-lettering, and iMovie. “I drew with pencil, then pen after that, and can’t say I planned what I was doing–that’s why you can find stupid mistakes, wrong words, and misspellings, and why I scanned all of them to be better centered on the page,” he explains. “But I had a rule that I would never redo anything or use any digital retouching, because with 66 cards I would lose much time worrying.”

You can see all of the pages from the project here and watch the video below:

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