00:00 Tell me, what's it like to have the snog back on the wall of Fagans?
00:04 I'm very happy and it's having a great response from people while I've been painting it.
00:09 You know, lots of people taking photographs. I think they're just as happy to have it on the wall as I am.
00:15 And I think people will be able to see straight away that there are some changes from the original one.
00:21 Talk us through some of what you've changed and what you've kept.
00:24 There's a major change in Joy's coat. It's turned from brown to purple now.
00:32 So I thought I'd give it a bit more colour and life and a bit of baboom.
00:36 And then there's just subtle changes with the glasses and the hand and stuff like that.
00:41 Basically, I could rectify the mistakes I thought I'd made in the first one.
00:45 When I drew it the first time round, I was just sketching it as I was going.
00:49 Now I could be a little bit more clinical and a little bit more detailed with what I wanted to do.
00:55 So I'm really, really happy now. It's snog mark two and it's looking cracking.
01:00 I know that methods-wise from the original 2013, we changed the way we did it.
01:04 I think we had some stencils and things out this time. Talk to us through how you've changed how you've created the snog.
01:08 Yeah, well, the original snog was supposed to have been done via a projection method.
01:13 But when we got there in the morning, the projector didn't work.
01:16 So then I had to quickly change it to the classic kind of grid method,
01:21 where you put a grid on the drawing that you've got in front of you and then you scale it up on the wall.
01:27 And this time I wanted to keep faithful to the original as much as I possibly could.
01:32 So I used a stencil. So we've got the snog back to how it was when everybody saw it originally, with a few changes, obviously.
01:42 The snog is a very famous bit of art in Sheffield. People really, really like it.
01:48 And you've mentioned it already, but obviously, even after we finish, we've had people coming up and chatting to you about it.
01:54 Just talk us through the reactions from people today as it's been going up.
01:58 It's been fabulous and it's great because the Chinese community that reside here, where the students, they absolutely love it.
02:04 They've stopped in the Brighton Centre and taken photographs of it.
02:10 And, you know, for them it's a piece of Sheffield that they can share with their home.
02:14 And so it's great for them to get this reaction as well.
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