I've been making little thumbnails in crayon and color pencil after work in my sketchbook. Making more tactile art and with such low commitment materials has honestly been something I've been finding really centering in the midst of these hazy days in CA

I did quite a few exploratory sketches to settle on a composition with staging that I liked, and I'm including that one, plus the value comp and the color rough!

@Taijuey Also, for anyone interested, I have some scans of an article on what his methods and process were like!

Some sketchbook studies from Google Street View! This kind of exercise has been great for upping my comfort levels when dealing with complex architectural scenes, and committing to the process in ballpoint helps with decision making! #sketchbook #ballpointpen #mapcrunch

Some sketchbook pages! I've been spending more time exploring ideas and doing studies in here, and I feel it's been helping with being more reactive and worrying less about perfection. #sketchbook #vernaculararchitecture #architecturedesign #visdevart

@TuffWaffles All is cake in the end

Some bits from a sketchbook. Lately I've been appreciating more the unfinished nature of drawings like these- probably because most things I do are such a rendering marathon! #sketchbook #sketch #MaySketchaDay #kidlitart #characterdesign

And some of the sketches that helped develop the idea!

@Taijuey

Now you can see me go too thick with the paint at first and scramble to bring back the structure from the drawing. Fun using oils for more personal work- love the edge variety you get with the medium!

Some process! This was as tight as I went with my line drawing, as I resolved to figure out a lot of things in paint. This meant constantly checking with a 2 pt perspective grid. After the architecture was painted in clean, I got to have fun and grunge things up!