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artfully fill volumes of Pickman's sketchbooks. The episode had two art gallery sets, art school studios and students' rooms, the work of two main artists and other students to fill and create the work for. A number of us in the Art Department were doing pages of sketches, rough paintings, charcoals just to create the volume of work required, a vast quantity. Designing and building the sets were complicated enough in their own right (with a vaulted ceiling cellar that was a redo of a standing mansion set from another one of the series' shows which transformed over the course of the story) but were relatively straightforward compared to the quantities of original art that had to be both created and sourced. At one point, late in the evening and alone in the set doing final touches, I charcoaled a manic face on the wall of Pickman's student residence. It encompassed all my feelings of madness and exhaustion at the sheer volume of art the Art Department had created. The next day, the director Keith Thomas and DP Colin Hoult did a shot closing into the screaming mouth of my charcoal: a perfect transition from one moment in the story to the next and a great example of the unplanned unity between art and camera. A. "THE OUTSIDE" STACEY'S KITCHEN. COLOR STUDY BY TAMARA DEVERELL. B. "THE OUTSIDE" STACEY'S BATHROOM. ILLUSTRATION BY ANDY TSANG. C. "THE OUTSIDE" STACEY'S BEDROOM. ILLUSTRATION BY ANDY TSANG. D. "THE OUTSIDE" STACEY'S LIVING/DINING ROOM. ILLUSTRATION BY ANDY TSANG. E. "PICKMAN'S MODEL" PAINTINGS IN PROGRESS. F. "PICKMAN'S MODEL" DINING ROOM. ILLUSTRATION BY CHRIS PENNA. G. "PICKMAN'S MODEL" ART STUDIO. ILLUSTRATION BY CHRIS PENNA. H. "PICKMAN'S MODEL" PICKMAN'S MANSION. DIRECTOR'S PLAN BY JON CHAN. I. "PICKMAN'S MODEL" PICKMAN'S MANSION STAIRCASE. ILLUSTRATION BY ANDY TSANG. F G H I