Illustration: Bay Window, rue Wolfe

 

This was originally going to be a Krita project, showing how decrepit the bay window is on this building. The brick was all redone but the window is rotting away. I even started painting it but then decided on another direction and did the drawing in Affinity Designer. Designer is a vector drawing program, not bit map, like Affinity Photo of Photoshop. With them you paint with pixels but vector is more like building an image with shapes - almost like using cut outs for each part. Every piece is its own layer and the image can be made as large or small are you like with no loss in quality. 

So this way of doing it didn't make it impossible to get that rotting look but it doesn't really lend itself to that so I kept some odd angles to the bay but for the most part made it look much more attractive than it is. There is a small tree in front I drew, then deleted because it took away from the facade. I really liked adding the shadows and I think they give it a very natural look I wasn't expecting in a vector drawing. 

Illustration: homme assis dans le parc

 

Painted in Krita with a little work done in Affinity photo fr iPad while I was away this weekend. I was taking photos of a friend getting greeted by my dog in the park and saw this guy sitting at table and decided to draw him. I actually don't like the idea drawing him without permission even though he was in a public park and you don't see his face. It's completely legal but I would rather ask bit I am not comfortable doing that either!

I liked the idea of drawing a figure in more of a setting and him at a table seemed like good practice. Another thing I liked was, though he is pretty muscular his back was reflecting a lot of light so it wasn't deep shadows exaggerating his definition but looked much more relaxed. I also like yu can't see what he is doing and that sort of "mystery" intrigues me in a composition.