I went to a boardgame festival and he had a live show where they gave some people on the front the tools to follow his instruction. I remember he did a weed joke ;D
Woah he attends board game festivals?
I AM SPREADING MISINFORMATION
The Italian version had another host aside from Neil and I meant that one
Ah, okay haha
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
That shit was fire! I learned a bunch of art stuff from it, often I’d make something based on what they show and give it to my grandparents. Awesome stuff.
Though this would have been much easier with streaming - back then I had to try and remember all the important details on first watch, which almost never worked!
Haha yeah same!
Fucking LOVED art attack. Also I wish the rumour that Banksy and Neil Buchanan were the same guy.
Nah, I’m glad it’s not him. Banksy’s stuff always came across as a bit pretentious, whereas Neil’s stuff seems more fun
Never heard of it. When/where is it from?
1990s, UK
I remember the 90s but I’m not British, so that explains things.
Thanks for the reply.
Oh my god, just after posting it has now hit me that the name is a pun on “heart attack”. What a life.
Before Art Attack and on the rival channel was Tony Hart and Heartbeat. Possibly a bit of an in-joke too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartbeat
I can hear the theme song already: doodoo doo doo-doo, doodoo doo doo-doo
Always preferred Hartbeat to Art Attack. Buchanan was just a bit creepy. Plus, no Morph.
Also, was there not a story that those jumpers NB wore cost about £300 or something?
Neil!
Edit: and that talking stone head.
Neil knew ASMR before it was a thing when cutting cardboard with scissors
Neil Buchanan was one of the pillars of my childhood. I wish him nothing but good things.
Wow, a blast from the past!
My favourite show back in the day!
As soon as I saw the logo the theme song played in my head.
This is an Art Attack,
is it still going with Bec Hill?
I still use the way he draws fish
