Mushroom Skyline 02, Black Ink - Combining Styles

By the Light of a Clockwork Moon - Black Ink

Mushroom Skyline 01, Black Ink - Combining Styles

Seventh Entry: Mushroom Skyline

A while ago (during my Fine Art and Photography A-Levels) I found myself obsessed with exact lines and geometric shapes. This normally focused around buildings, landscapes and skylines. With this in mind I decided to have a stab at combining that with my fantasy sketches, beginning with geometric shapes and then introducing the fantasy elements afterwards. I really wanted to produce a good piece here after spending lots of time with smaller, less involved sketches so I invested a good three or four hours into it. For this one I did relent and use a pencil to sketch in the picture first as the amount of straight lines simply horrified me. Here is the final outcome, I hope you like it.    

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I intend on making this the first in a series of drawings to a similar effect that will be sold HERE. I had a tone of fun drawing this and barely put the pen down for a full three or four hours. The process went pretty smoothly and there weren't too many mistakes. As far as this piece is concerned I feel I managed to produce what I wanted to achieve and to be honest I am very happy with it. I feel I am getting both faster and more confident with the drawing style and I can't wait to work on some more, in the meantime I hope you like this one.  

I think for my next drawing I am going to go away from the mushroom theme for a bit, as I don't want to exhaust it too quickly, I am quite excited to see what I come up with.

A Mass of Black Ink - Experimental Mushroom Peice

Sixth Entry: A Mass of Black Ink

While I was enjoying sketching mushrooms I felt I was exhausting the current style I was working with, so I decided to try something new. The idea was simple, use a larger amount of black ink and start to abstract the lines. I also decided to add some background, something I seldom do. Another element I introduced for this piece was the strong black border around the bottom (solid tree), leading to a thinner black border at the top (In the sky). While the picture wasn't particularly complicated I still spent a lot of time deciding where the pen would go, and also where the pen wouldn't go, leaving negative spaces to create shapes. While I had a clear idea of what I wanted to achieve this piece was still very experimental.

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Collection of Mushrooms, Black Ink - For Resource

Fifth Entry: Collection of Mushrooms

After playing with sketches of mushrooms for sometime I have decided I really like this subject matter. It's for this reason that I decided to draft up a small collection of mushroom designs that I can resource from in the future, allowing me to base further work off of them. Some of the sketches I drafted up were based themselves off of sketches in the past while some where new designs that I came up with while I drew them. The mushrooms themselves are not based on any kind of real mushroom but rather come straight from my imagination. So is the beauty of fantasy art.  

Notes:

I enjoy working with mushrooms a lot and as they are just ideas for resourcing the outcome itself was not of too much concern. Having said that I do like how they have come out and believe there is a varied selection from which I can reference in the future. There are several mistake in the detail and shaping but when I reproduce the designs I can easily edit these out. Overall I think this was a worthwhile activity and I am pleased with the outcome. 

My next project will be to develop another mushroom sketch in a slightly different style, utilising line and form . This piece may well be slightly abstract and I look forward to working on it.