The Long and Winding Road
/I took this shot of Chicago's North Shore Drive from the top of Hancock Tower. A few minutes earlier, I took the photo I used as the source for my earlier Windy City illustration.
Sometimes an idea doesn’t come in a flash. In this case it took years. It can happen to you, too. You just have to be patient.
I took this shot of Chicago's North Shore Drive from the top of Hancock Tower. A few minutes earlier, I took the photo I used as the source for my earlier Windy City illustration.
I've been playing around with Painter X3's new Perspective Guides, which can be used to snap brush strokes to the lines of perspective. In this image, I started with a shot I took of Chicago from the top of the Hancock Center. I aligned a 3-point perspective grid to match the photo, then drew in the building shapes. The original photo is a daytime scene; I used a new color palette to change the cityscape to a nighttime scene.