And a Drawing Break
May. 29th, 2023 06:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aggienaut 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.
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.
