Illustration: rue de la Visitation 04

 

Another house on the the way to my gym/pool. This was not in the best shape for a long time and a few years ago fell victim to fire. After the fire there was a major renovation that kept most of the original details and restored it to perhaps more than its former glory. 

This was a rare case I didn't hate the drawing until the end when it was near finished. It came along much more smoothly, thought slowly. Lots of bricks. I think before the fire it was all painted pink! 

Illustration: 1915 rue de la Visitation

 Finished another building I see on my walk to the gym. I will do the one next door as well soon, it's more interesting building. As usual, I HATED this until I was almost done. Then I was fine with it. maybe it says something about not giving up or maybe I'm just not looking at the process of doing these in a positive way. I like the end results and I guess that is what matters. 

Illustration: 1600 ave Lartigue

 

This is a house that really sticks out on one of the alley/streets I pass when going to a friend's house. It used to have a slightly larger than life plaster statue of an old time'y soldier painted in bright colours in front of it. It seems to always be for sale, sold, then for sale again. Not sure why that is, the inside seems really nice and large, there is a good outdoor space and parking. It is pretty weird, not sure what "style" it's in. 

Like most of these drawings, it hated this until I was in my second colouring/painting stage where I start adding shading to the solid colours I laid down first. Now.. I like it a lot. Mostly because I think the roof tiles do it for me. The reference photos were sort of a mess. This is a narrow space and getting all the house in one shot was out of the question so I took multiple photos and made a couple panoramas with limited success. 

Illustration: rue_de_la_visitation_03

 

This might be the last of the building drawings for a while. It's my least favourite so far and the least interesting to draw. If I come across something inspiring, I'll do another but while this is OK I would rather move on to some other stuff. Like the small scale of the houses so I am not sure I want to do "landmarks" or "architecturally important" structures. The sort of odd not quite maintained look of the ones I have done already is what drew me to them.

Illustration: L’Écomusée du fier monde

 

Another in my MTL buildings series. I tried to do this in Sketchbook to try out the mirror drawing feature as the building is symmetrical and was partially hidden by a tree I thought it would be a test of feature I have never used. I was on the iPad and it was just a mess, I got pretty far along and the file disappeared! SoI went back to procreate and made it like the past three.It was a lot of bricks and details so I nice challenge. I was not going to draw the banners on each side then thought they broke up the bricks and gave it a little more dimension,