Following on from my previous 'stormy sea' drawings, I decided it was time to try another one. Scouring the 'net I came across a fabulous photograph of a lighthouse at dusk taken by John Lund, and his photo ticked all my boxes of crashing waves, high seas and lots of atmosphere. To avoid copyright issues I dropped John a line and asked if he would kindly give me permission to use his photograph for reference, and he agreed.
The drawing is on my usual Daler-Rowney Heavyweight paper and was drawn with my favourite mechanical pencil containing 2B leads. I used a regular 8B pencil to touch in some of the darkest areas. Before I started I gave much thought to the square format of this picture. I used my image editing software to crop the photo into a landscape format but found that the reduction in sky and sea reduced the impact of the lone lighthouse .... the scene needs the big sky as much as it does the big sea, to drive home the smallness of the lighthouse when surrounded by the elements.
So beautiful. You have a great eye for detail and contrasts.
ReplyDeleteThat's very kind of you Jo, thank you.
DeleteAmazing details, John! Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThank you very much Judy.
DeleteWonderful job! You nailed the turbulent water!!! Glad I'm not out in that water.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much Joan.
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