Berlin Looking South - Bringing the City to Life
The good, old mac in the shop behaved well, all the elements are coloured and ready to be placed. After a little break (which brought me...
Berlin Looking South - Getting There
Hurray! All the painting work of the image itself is done! What’s left is the colourful life: people, cars, trains, boats and a few...
Berlin Looking South - It's a Colourful World
After battling with some computer problems due to older software losing quite a bit of work along the way I can now crack on with the...
Berlin Looking South - Pixels, Bit and MBs
Now that all the hand drawn work is done, completed and scanned the project is literally off the drawing board but far from over. I will...
Berlin Looking South - Let's Scan
Now I need to go to the scanning service and then print the file as my under layer for the last phase of hand drawn work (yes, it’s not...
Berlin Looking South - Lines, Lines, Lines...
Over the period of almost 2 weeks I was working my way westwards (or in drawing terms from the left to the right) on the fine liner...
Berlin Looking South - It's Time for Fine Liners
The day has arrived: I can roll out the big sheet of transparent paper, get the fine liner pens out, 0.5mm for most of the drawing, 0.3mm...
Berlin Looking South - Nearly There
Back at the studio. The preliminary felt pen drawings are near enough ready and soon I can start the final fine liner pen version –...
Berlin Looking South - It's Not All About Buildings
After a little long weekend break to discover the beautiful city of Bath and Salisbury’s magnificent and grant cathedral I am back in my...
Berlin Looking South - Jumping the Wall
I am moving further west towards the former no man’s land along the wall between east and west. As one might expect a lot of building...
