sketches of buildings

And so I guess I'm not good at all drawing buildings. As can be seen the sketches I made of the buildings on the left, are quite crooked and out of proportion. The shading and highlights are done wrong at some places.



Huddersfield has some pretty buildings though.
I'm starting to consider sketching whenever I have time outside.
Also went to the cemetery with a friend and found these:

Drawings of a character with a book.

This is "the girl with a book" drawing that we had to do for our Visual Studies class. The first thing that came up to my mind was to draw a chibi with a book. The design of the girl was an inspiration driven by my friend at Uni. On the book of the girl there's a Hello Kitty logo which represents her love for....Hello Kitty.

My friend also wears glasses which I forgot to include...I'm sorry Alice. ^^'






After that I decided to draw another one just for fun, but this time using a photo reference. I wanted to draw  a realistic figure but it didn't turn out well.

Here is the girl I tried redrawing.

SciFi city

SciFi city done in the class Visual Studies (for game design).
The collage was made by using photographs of New York City,  Notre Dame, Europa and Callisto ( two of Jupiter moons ) and for the background I used a galaxy. In the end I put some birds and a ship.












Links to the images used for the picture

Moons:
http://static.bbc.co.uk/solarsystem/img/ic/640/moons/europa_moon/europa_moon_large.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Callisto,_moon_of_Jupiter,_NASA.jpg

City:
http://www.starlinkaviation.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/new-york-city1.jpg

Cathedral:
http://www.wondermondo.com/Images/Europe/France/IledeFrance/NotreDameParis.jpg

Birds:
http://s3.media.squarespace.com/production/787264/9459197/.a/6a0120a5343d23970b0133f4c14b70970b-800wi


Spaceship:
 http://oxsite.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/spaceship.jpg

Fantasy Castle

 The first thing that came to my mind when hearing "Fantasy city" was a city on a giant platform rock floating through the sky. The source of my inspiration came from some books and movies that I was interested in a long time ago.

Inspiration pictures:

How's Moving Castle

    Laputa - Gulliver's Travels (Studio Ghibli's "Castle in the sky: Laputa)

 
Elder Scrolls Legends novel

The Castle I came up with:


For this project I used couple of buildings as followed in the tutorial. The platform for the castle was simply two mountains cropped and turned upside-down, then I used the two healing brushes and the patch tool in order to make a bigger platform. I also put a fence around the castle (so that the people won't be endangered living there). since it was just a plain floating castle (with no fancy gets to fly it around, only magic) I went on and added a dragon and a sky-ship.
The images for this project I found by searching in google.
The fence for the city was created in photoshop (by adding two pictures together) :

Fence

Platform


Conclusion:
It is not perfect and the lighting is terribly wrong, some of the pictures are not well put together.

Picture for Visual Studies (video games)

 This is the picture that I'm going to use for my Visual Studies project.

Since I don't have any experience I'm going to do it without the rain, also I think of excluding the wires and the top left balcony. If I manage to finish with everything as planned and due date, I might continue and try to make the rainy effect.

Feedback:

• The scene has many details and is realistically made
• It has good contrast
• Good use of dark tones
• Creates a gloomy and mysterious mood
• Good use of gloss effect
• Has lots of dark spots making it hard to see clearly some of the textures
• The artificial transmitter of light reflects glow on the ground and on some of the buildings

Lighting:

Because the picture is supposed to be taken in a rainy night the rain itself creates a blurred effect on the street and some of the buildings. The building lamp, which is brighter than the others, creates a lighter contrast with the building's shadows, making them even darker.
Since I won't be doing the rain the street would lose its gloss effect, and the light on the ground would not be so hazy.