More Fun with Sharpies

For yesterday's effort the source was a landscape/location instead of a face. Plus, it is based on a watercolor I did a while ago of a bike rider on a City street at sunset.

This piece was a complicated drawing with the additional lines--to figure out how to color in. What is very interesting is that I left a portion of the central tower in black and white to lead the eye to the biker next to it. Without that, the biker wouldn't have been as noticeable. This was also a test of whether I had enough colors to create the gradations of color needed for the various areas. What I learned is that the 72 colors in my set are not enough.

I'm still having fun and have figured out a way to work bigger with this approach to subject and color -- that I'll be starting this weekend. Though somewhat different in materials and substrate, I'm hoping it yields similar intense color fun!

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