Sometimes Pablo will create a few variations of a drawing and then chooses one to upload to the website, but with demand increasing Pablo is having to step up production, moving from 50 a week to around 50 a day. It’s a “huge undertaking”, he says, though the artist believes it’s connecting him with people “in a way [he] hadn’t before”.
Out of all the drawings Pablo has completed, the favourite prompt has been “forgiveness”. “I think it was just a prompt that helped me take a turn with the project. Where I stopped drawing what I thought people wanted me to draw and instead I started reacting to the prompts in a way that felt that I had a voice and a personal interpretation that I could apply to this work.”
“I’ve received a lot of messages from people about how much it meant to receive a drawing in their inbox. People tell me some of the drawings make them laugh, some become memorable. It’s also been a project that feels more universal than most of the other work I do – it’s simple and it can be understood by anyone, especially kids.” You can try out Prompt Brush here.