EARLY ACCESS // more buildings! (Patreon)

More building sketches, this time in Photoshop, which instantly felt more natural and intuitive to me than drawing in Procreate. One of these is based on a town in the South of France, taken by me:

…and the other one is based on a photo of Stone Town in Zanzibar, which I have been to in the past but didn't take any good reference images! I found this specific picture on unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/VUrE8u516pY):

For both of these I used the technique of blocking out the simple shapes first and making sure the color was right before layering on detail gradually. I used color dynamics settings on the brushes to get some nice color variation, which worked out better in the Zanzibar one and is a great trick for creating some more vibracy. I still feel like something goes wrong in the detailing process and that a lot of the expressiveness of my initial rough version is lost, but I feel like I’m moving forward!