aggienaut | And a Drawing Break

   Today I had an impromptu day off as the trainees didn't arrive until after 5pm, and I actually ended up spending it drawing.

   You see, I'm still aiming to continue to experiment with posting updates on Medium, on a weekly basis. So I wrote up an entry covering the second half of Guinea yesterday. The "globetrotters" publication on Medium has a "strictly only your original photos" policy which generally I agree with and its no problem since I take more pictures than most. But I really wanted to get a picture of the front view of Kambadaga Falls, the one we visited the top of. But of course I never saw the front view, or it at full flood.

   So the solution I've come up with is to DRAW it.

First, the primary reference picture:

The pencil sketch, which took just a few minutes. Intentionally moved the perspective down level with the lower falls.

And coloured in on the computer, which took 3.5 hours. The tree/hill colors were actually taken directly from the reference picture with the color dropper tool.

Obviously I'm not very good at this but you know what I rather enjoyed spending a few hours working on drawing. (or mostly working on coloring in).

If anyone has any easy tips to improve this please let me know.