14/02/19 Sketches

I finally manned-up and drew the complex front of Bath Abbey. I mainly wanted to try out the latest addition to my art collection; the Uni Posca White Pen (I must sound like such a geek!)

The Process:

FIRST I CHOSE MY SPOT: Outside a soon to be closed cafe.

Unfortunately, I did have to move midway through as they were collecting tables. Eek! This helped speed up my drawing process by focussing my attention on key forms and general outlines rather than the details. I also took a photo for reference later from the same angle.

THEN CAME THE DETAIL: I started working inwards adding more lineweight to the outline to add emphasis. This added more depth & contrast and made it more visible from afar.

MISSING FINGERS:

I had to find my fingers again as it was now freezing. So I went home, had dinner and waited for the feeling to return before continuing (always a handy step!)

Then went over the sky with a black pro-marker and the windows with a 0.7mm pen.

A touch of the Zig Art & Graphite Twin pen shading before the main reason why I started this drawing – the White Uni Posca pen.

TADA!!!!

Oh . My . Goodness!

I love it! Absolutely love it!

The beauty of using a mid-tone sketchbook is that it has the best of both worlds. You can go one way with colour to add brightness or the other for darkness.

When using a conventional white paper sketchbook, the colours you add can only get darker. I imagine a black paper sketchbook would be the reverse and I hope to one day experiment in one (maybe when this one is done). I can imagine night scenes would be epic!

I also went back over this earlier sketch from the Royal Crescent highlighting the windows.

---

Anyways, enough from me. Let me know what you think.

Peace