CITYSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART CONTEST WEEK #110- my entry (PowerUp 100%)

Hi! I would like to take part in the contest and this time I drew a picture of my dreams. I have never been to Greece, but in my imagination it is like this Pinterest photo - cozy, warm, with lots of flowering trees and houses made of white stone. I love Europe and have been to many countries, but I haven't been to Greece yet. I hope that all this pandemic situation will end soon and I will realize my dream and draw from nature the cozy streets of Greece.

In the meantime, I'll show you the process of drawing from a Pinterest photo.

First I drew a sketch with a pencil. As you can see, I do not draw details, but only make a very quick sketch just to indicate the main thing - the perspective of the street, the house and the tree. I draw all the small details already in color.I use a brush like this in the screenshot. Honestly I don't know what it's called in the English version, because I have some of the brushes signed in Russian.

Then I do a quick fill just to indicate the most basic colors- these colors are average, that is, not the lightest and not the darkest that were in the photo.

And then, step by step, I begin to add details also in large strokes.

When all the basic strokes have already been made, you can begin to refine all the details and fine lines with a smaller brush size. Here you can continue to refine the details for an infinitely long time, but I like it when the sketch is so artistic and does not look like a photo =)

This is the result. Honestly, I'm not very happy with the result in my imagination it should have been completely different. I will redraw it again with other brushes. Sometimes I do this to compare the result and achieve the effect that was originally intended.

Well, I'll show you how you can use the image in life.

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