We stopped in Ngatea for about 10 minutes today, and I took the opportunity to do this quick sketch. Here’s a photo of the sculpture, from the other side.
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Mission Bay clock tower at night
It’s a small clock tower, but I like how it looks lit up with neon at night. I did a quick pencil sketch, made a few colour and other notes, and applied coloured pencil at home.
The car
This was meant to be our Toyota Ipsum, so the perspective and proportions are quite out of whack, but it was a fun quick sketch. I find that, for certain subjects, if I use too small a piece of paper (this was A4), and I start too big, I end up squashing things up. ProbablyContinue reading “The car”
Silhouette of the neighbour’s roof at night
I saw this silhouette from inside, on the same night as I did the night-time sketches. I really like the atmosphere created by the very close values at night.
Night-time sketches
For fun, I went outside the other night and did some sketches. I could barely see what I was doing (I didn’t have a torch, only the moonlight), so I focused on the subject, and did them very quickly. I actually quite like how some of them came out—especially some of the marks I made.
