Here's the final image of Corn street at night. Generally pleased with it but feel the characters lack, well, character. I'd like it be a bit more like a Hogarth in technical ability but I'm pleased that it is comparable in principle.
There are plenty of subtle phallic references, the warm inviting glow of the bar with the dominating scale of the building I hope says a lot about how drinking culture manipulates and controls the masses. It's big business in it's worst guise.
I thought it would be fun to show the progress of this one as I was afraid of putting the brush to the page for months, and you'll see why.
From the preliminary sketch that you can see earlier in the blog I produced an under drawing that I was pleased with then after months of contemplation I applied the first wash which turned out like this...
AHHHHHH what have I done!? almost completely lost the under drawing. But alas with a lot of work I managed to bring it back together and feel proud for being so bold.
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