Now deciding to base my book around spires, and general church architecture I've done some studies of church structures I have seen:
St. George's Church in Leeds - Highlighted the spire to place emphasis on what I'm trying to celebrate, but I think that it detracts from the image and obscures the pen/line work, which is what makes the image.
Bottom drawing is done from a slightly exaggerated perspective to show how grand/tall the spire appears, which may be a good approach to take if I'm trying to celebrate these structures.
Holy Trinity Church, Leeds - Layering up tracing paper with different amounts of watercolour/sharpie drawn on for colour with a pencil drawing on top.
Started as a weird experiment just layering colours and ended up quite interesting looking, but too messy and would require too much clean up on Photoshop to look good scanned. Maybe would be more successful if done on acetate with paint, but then potentially becomes too expensive for what it is.
Cowley Road Church, Oxford
Quick pencil and tone sketch
St Martin's Church, London - Detailed pen drawing and pencil sketch
The pencil drawing is an attempt to show the connection between the height of a church structure (in this case a square tower) and its relation/closeness to God, hence the clouds and light rays
I think the pen drawing is extremely successful so is worth developing to see how I can colour/develop the idea.
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