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I finally got around to putting that drawing I’ve been working on into Photoshop! It’s not completed yet as I would like to go over it all again and add a whole bunch of little details, but I feel like it’s coming along nicely so far. I’m not entirely sure what kind of details I would add exactly, but it would likely involve enhancing those windows on the buildings, as well as making that moon glow properly.
I was hoping to get some Photoshopping done today, but that just wasn’t going to happen. So for today, I went to town on adding detail to this drawing on paper rather than doing the Photoshop thing. Lo and behold, it’s turning out pretty great.
I seem to be making a bit of a habit of getting started on my drawing pretty late in the day. Then when I go to post my drawing, it’s so late in the day it takes me forever to think of something I can properly put into words. Something might need to change.
Late post tonight! I did my drawing early though, thankfully. I’ve had company all day and haven’t had an opportunity to get anything written yet. Until now, at least. Well, that being said, it’s now getting pretty late, and I’m not going to go too crazy on this post. I drew the rest of the starry sky, and if you look close I penciled out a bit of the building shapes.
I have some interesting plans for tomorrow. I really want to find the best way to get this picture uploaded into Photoshop so I can try painting it. I’m thinking up all kinds of different effects I can try, and I really need to get back into digital painting. Tomorrow’s another day, and that’s when I’ll get to it. Until then, I’m off!
Okay, so this drawing is incredibly early on. I’m sure you can get an idea of what it’s going to be, but I thought it would be fun to post what I’m working on, as I’m working on it. Not to mention that I’ll be working on it for most of the night during two hockey games, so I wouldn’t have found time to post until after midnight if I didn’t do it now.
So, here it is! It’s not going to be realistic, but I’m planning on adding a lot of windows. I’m thinking up ways to make it so the windows are the only thing on the page with any real color. The moon will be pale, not unlike the crescent moon I did a few days or so ago, and the buildings might be shades of grey, or …maybe I’ll make them bright red! I really don’t know. I just want to convey some kind of emotion using the buildings and windows. Not to mention the fact that they are standing tall all around you.
So yeah, that’s what I’m working on. Nothing too impressive at the moment, but when I look at this early sketch, I see a lot of the finalized picture. There are just a few question marks sticking out at me. What colors am I going to use? And will those windows all fit in there correctly at the correct angles? It’s going to take some work. I don’t do scenes like this often.
If you want to see an updated version before I do tomorrow’s post, I usually post those smaller updates on Instagram.
It’s strange, as well as comforting, to use this blog as a place where I can be completely honest. After spending hours posting my paintings in online shops and galleries, and trying to come up with interesting stories for each piece of art, it’s pretty exhausting. I don’t make any of the stories up, but I do have to consider exactly how talk about them.
I was more excited to get going on today’s creative project than I’ve been in a long time. I’m really loving how this is turning out so far. However, when I look at this photo, which was actually taken under proper sunlight, I don’t get the same feeling as I get from looking at the actual piece on paper. Not sure why that is exactly. Maybe the colors are more washed out in the photo, and I think it’s a littler blurry in places. And that’s pretty lame.
I’ll do whatever I can do to continue trying to take better photographs to represent my artwork in the online space. You know, that’s one huge reason why I really love doing digital work; it always ends up at the highest quality as far as something that’s inherently pixel perfect goes. I’m no photographer. Creating artwork with pens, pencils, and literally getting my hands dirty in the process, just feels a whole lot better. I enjoy the process more when I’m creating with my hands with many tools, than when I create anything digitally. When I put it that way, it sounds dumb, because I’m sure every single artist will agree with that. Well, probably…
I’m just going to throw this in here at the end, but is it just me or do you also get a Millennium Falcon vibe from this drawing?
I planned to work on the Photoshop painting I started yesterday, which I’m sure I’ll get back to sometime, but instead I made this. I got somewhat set up to do my Photoshop stuff today, but I just wasn’t feeling it. I’ve enjoyed working on paper with these pens and pencils more than I realized. Using my drawing tablet and fiddling with the tools in Photoshop just didn’t feel right. Not to mentioned that I just don’t have anywhere super comfortable to do my digital drawing.
