Since the sun decided to come out yesterday, I spent some time gardening - the first time I've set foot out the back this year. Yikes! I weeded and pruned my socks off for a good few hours, then reckoned I'd earned a bit of play time.
I found a sketchbook from when John and I had a week in Hamburg. I scanned in a couple of drawings of some wonderful old warehouses we found looming above the river Elbe, then played around in Photoshop with colours. None of the colour was in the originals - they were simple 3B pencils sketches.
The textures are not imposed, just exaggerated - they come from the paper itself, and from the drawings being a bit thumbed and smudged around the edges. The tonal values in the background are in fact reversed - what was grubby is now whiter, the cleanest whitest paper is the orange.
4 comments:
They look lovely in this colour! I like the way you've descibed the architecture with the lines.x
That's a great success. Just the right colour to bring out the majesty and age of the buildings.
I would have liked to have seen a 'before' drawing though.
I am an artist with the dream of becoming a full time illustrator and leaving my 9-to-5 job, one day :)
Your articles are really helpful and interesting and I love the way you seem to sketch everywhere and anywhere!
I am going to be following your blog!
Annabelle Métayer
Thank you, and hello Annabelle - welcome to the blog. Glad you are finding it useful. Good luck!
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