Amanda's Sketchbook
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@Amanda-Jean I love the textures!
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I like textures so I’d say go for it, because I haven’t found mine yet but I will!
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I have an opportunity to contribute to some street art in my local area. We have these big metal boxes throughout the city which house the circuitry and doodads for traffic lights. There's been an ongoing initiative for years with local councils to paint them up and make them look "pretty" instead of just being big ugly grey metal things on street intersections. It's also an anti-graffiti incentive I believe.
So anyway, I've been dying to do one for years but never had the confidence. Offers only crop up twice a year (I think) and they're very much in high demand, so it's first come first serve. This time I decided to say a big boohoo to my confidence issues and sign up for a box. Well I got one! So now I am busy designing to submit my proposal.
The concept is in relation to a few very worrying and painful incidents that have happened in our area recently. Some sick fool has been putting poison or baited food in the public off-leash dog parks. Consequently, the dogs who impulsively eat everything and anything they find have ended up being taken to the vet in varying states of physical stress and illness... and a few have sadly passed on.
This is my contribution to the memory of those dogs. I didn't know any of them, but I'm absolutely horrified that someone would do such awful things to these beautiful creatures and consequently cause pain to their owners and loved ones. It's murderous and sick. I feel helpless and extremely sad for people with dogs who are afraid to take their furchild out for exercise to these parks.
So yeah... awful story... but trying to help ease people's pain and brighten their day.
It will be challenging and I still have to double check the box area to make sure I can actually paint on all four sides, I think the back may be too close to a fence however, so I may have to reassess my composition a bit. Was thinking about putting them all on leads but that seemed a bit much, so maybe just a few.
The birds are symbols of freedom and spirits. I have to submit the final design proposal tonight. What do you think?
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Final sketch.
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@Amanda-Jean I am glad you took the plunge and were rewarded with a box to paint—your final drawing is so cute! I especially like the cat’s expression
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@BichonBistro Thanks you
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Last night I finalised color and submitted my Urban Smart Project proposal. Things may change when I actually paint, but for now I'm ok with this. The intention is to keep it simple, as it's my first outdoor project.
I created a 3D mockup in Blender to see how it looks, and although my texture mapping skills are somewhat amateur, this is a result I'm satisfied with.
You can see and interact with the 3D mockup here: http://skfb.ly/6MN6D
Approval is pending. Fingers crossed!
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@Amanda-Jean looks so good—best of luck!
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They didn't approve it.... yet. Too much 'blank space' that defeats the purpose of being anti-graffiti. So I need to revise my background.
In the meantime.... I've been toying with this style. Except I worked myself into a corner with the border and wasn't sure what to do with it, so I'm done for now.
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@Amanda-Jean i can’t figure out how you would make it graffiti-proof except a dark night sky, then you would have to re-work the dog colors too
It’s so cute I can’t imagine anybody defacing it with graffiti
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@BichonBistro thank you. Kids around my town tag almost anything. Not all of them respect or comply with unspoken rules about respecting others creativity, let alone other people's property
there's been a serious spate of car vandalism going on lately. Mostly senseless destruction as opposed to graffiti.Tagging the art doesn't happen too often, but it does happen.
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These are great. I'll have to keep my eye on your sketchbook posts more often
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@Amanda-Jean I like it! It's so cheerful! We had those painted electrical boxes in San Jose when we were living there. Are you in California?
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@Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen many thanks! No, I’m in Brisbane, Australia
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@Amanda-Jean oh! Quite a ways from California
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Just across the pond though!
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I started on this in Procreate and I have a little lesson to share... the moral of the story being: DUPLICATE YOUR FILE BEFORE YOU CHANGE IT!!! You see, I was going to share the progress, but the image size was quite big, so I wanted to downsize. And instead of pressing one option, I accidentally exited, and so Procreate saved the smaller size. Now that's all I have to work with... I guess it wasn't meant to be
In any case, I am very drawn to using textures and especially creating a colouring pencil look lately. Never could do much justice with real colouring pencils, but digital pencils is heck yeah!
To be continued....
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Update... this is going to take me a while
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Giving the wolf a miss for a bit because I painted myself into a corner and had a hard time doing shadows on his shirt. Meanwhile, here's something else that I had fun with this morning.
