City Life

 

More grooving on Black and White city scenes. These pictures will somehow end up in the next installment of the charm/strange experience project. Yes, we’re working in a non linear fashion once again. These pictures fit the mood of the piece, but where and how do they fit in specifically? Well, it’s still being figured out, you see, there are many angles to approach this from…

It took me a long time to be able to be this free when drawing in black and white from photos. In the past I was a slave to drawing the shadows, to the point where that was all I drew! That’s fine, for portraits and simple, bold pictures, but for more complex scenes with lots of overlapping things, picking and choosing what’s black and white regardless of where the shadows are is important for maintaining clear communication. Its refreshing to be able to clearly see the same approach from a different angle.

That Picasso quote about trying to forget to draw like Raphael and get back to drawing like a kid rings true more and more everyday I’m alive. Good call, Pablo.

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