Art: Street in the Morning
I’m on an environment-drawing jag. Here’s process work for a piece I worked on this evening. I used a photo for reference. After penciling the drawing in Sketchbook Pro, I took the drawing into Photoshop where I applied colors.
Original pencils (silly me forgot to switch to a new layer before I started in with colors):
In progress:
And here’s the finished piece:
-Krishna
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Thomas James
August 6, 2010 at 11:20 pmBeautiful work, Krishna. Really like this one.
Jahhdog
August 7, 2010 at 8:53 amNice Krishna! I like that you posted the pencils and the journey to the finished piece!
ArrrOOooo!
Antoine
August 7, 2010 at 9:42 amKrishna, my man,
you said in an earlier post this week, that you found backgrounds intimidating to draw.
You have absolutely no reasons to be intimidating!
Wow! I love what you did this week, this is awesome stuff!
Now, this is I who’s intimidated!!!
Keep’em coming!
krishna
August 7, 2010 at 9:47 amThanks, gentlemen! I’m having an absolute blast working on pieces like these. I think I’m officially addicted!
Shiniku
August 7, 2010 at 12:33 pmI really dig this. I want to become a vector character and walk down this street.
JDubya
August 9, 2010 at 8:45 amGreat work Krishna! I really like your style.
Dan G
August 9, 2010 at 10:46 amI like the attempt, but I’d make an observation from the point of view of a fan of Impressionism (who visited the Boston MFA yesterday): the lines are perhaps more straight than you intend. Specifically, I compared the pencil to the finished versions for the shadow of the street light, the overhanging shingles on the right, and the guard rail. The pencil lines seem to have the gentle curve of the arcing pencil that made them while the finished versions do not. This may have been your intent, Krishna, but it tends to make the final version a bit more anime and a bit less “landscape portrait” in my humble opinion. I think of the inexactness of the swirls of paint on a later work by Monet: the portrait is still water lilies, but it has life and liveliness. Or how Sisley conveys the crispness of a Winter day. The Impressionists tried to paint the air… but (for my taste) your final version is in a vacuum.
Again, just my taste… and perhaps not your intent (or intended style) anyway!
(Geez — I HATED Art History in college and I have two engineering degrees. Can’t believe I wrote the above!)
Krishna
August 9, 2010 at 10:37 pmLol, thanks for the thorough critique, Dan! I was going for a bit more of a stylized “Chuck Jones-ish” look vs. capturing exact reality.
Dan G
August 10, 2010 at 9:05 pmAh — OK — makes more sense then. As I said, it’s a taste thing and, without the context of Bugs Bunny on top of this background, it was not clear the style you were shooting for.
I think you are on a good path for Chuck Jones: I have an original in my office!