Skulls, Abbeys and Theatres...

Actually only one of each :D

Thursday, 3rd of May

The day was started by painting the Abbey and the skull from the V&A.  I did the building quite roughly as I knew if I did it with painstaking detail that I could possibly die in the long process, obviously a slight exaggeration there but it wasn't really necessary either to do that much detail.  I did the building first then the skull.

I then added black outlines to the building in photoshop, this took annoyingly long compared to doing it with pen.  As I mentioned earlier I can't do the pen straight onto the painting because the black doesn't scan black.  After having done the building I suddenly thought, duh just put tracing paper over the top and draw the black lines like that.  This way they'll match perfectly and I still be able to enhance the layers seperately.  I shall do this from now on. 

I might change some of the outlines on the Abbey because I'm not very happy with it at the moment.  All it's done is make it look more wonky.  I will me doing it again when I doing the skull by hand. 

I also painted the Globe Theatre, exterior only.

This too will have the lines added by on hand by using tracing paper.  I hope to make the thatch look better as well.  I know it's not completely perfect perspective-wise etc. but I very rarely draw buildings, I avoid them in fact.  So I think so far I'm doing pretty well considering.