Work in Progress...

As soon as I finished drawing independent shops for Unique Wakefield I set about drawing a set of pages for The Ridings 30th Anniversary for this September. Although 85% there I haven't settled on all the diary page elements yet and feel the above page is still a bit of a work in progress. With a lot of my work I want to see what comes from doing the drawings rather than just copying a process. The Ridings is different from my outside drawing projects in that everything is undercover away from the elements and man made from not that very long ago, it does sport some interesting architecture and the amount of land it sits (on according to Google Satellite Maps) is huge. Although I am trying not to reproduce the process I am taking the same route as I did with the Wakefield Civic Society pages I did back in November 2012 and producing finished artwork in dip pen and ink and watercolour (332 x 242mm) which will then be enlarged for display purposes.

Unique Wakefield Illustrations

Those Wakefield independent shops and the buildings they inhabit all in one place.

Unique Wakefield (The Cow Shed)

53 Northgate, The Cow Shed

Cafe Mocca Moocho

10 Cross Square, Mocca Moocho

36 Carter Street, Robin Taylor Fine Art

Work in progress for Unique Wakefield, pen and ink drawings.

Northgate

Jam and Breeze 49 - 51 Northgate

Work in progress. More shops for the Unique Wakefield project, gift and greeting card shop Jam and ladies wear and accessories boutique, Breeze. If you are interested, I am posting the original black and white drawings over on the Wakefield Sketch blog.

Frank Bird (Menswear)

Although the Unique Wakefield drawings are a commercial project I am trying to draw the independent shops that occupy buildings that have a bit of character about them. The building where Frank Bird Ltd resides definitely has that. The slate roof tops and the elaborate brick decoration for holding wooden guttering in place are wonderful examples of story book type textures. The wooden guttering may still be there, even with detail close ups from my camera I can't quiet make them out.


Frank Bird, 13-17 Cross Square

Unique Wakefield Work in Progress

Cobblers, 103 Westgate

I am working with Unique Wakefield, drawing some of the independent shops in Wakefield. The line work
for the chosen shops is done and I am now colouring them with Photoshop. The images were drawn with dip pen and ink at home from my dodgy reference photographs.

Doodling Helps...

As I write and draw to day so much terrible news from America about Boston and Texas, and over here they are still debating 'Thatcher Land' on the radio. I should be doing something important but I end up doodling owls and mice instead.