PICCADILLY CIRCUS CRAYOLA'd!
It only took me two days, but my Crayola crayon drawing of London's Piccadilly Circus in July 1998, my first foray into crayon art as an adult, is completed.
Since I was using crayons and not coloured pencils, and most of the crayons rapidly turned into stubs, I wasn't nearly able to capture all of the detail of this photo of Piccadilly Circus in July 1998, and it looks really clumsy compared to my Prismacolor colored pencil drawing of Piccadilly Circus in July 2000, but the picture does have kind of an Impressionistic vitality about it, and I kind of like how bright the advertising signs look compared to the rest of the picture, like they're electric in the drawing.
For most of the white text, I pretty much had to scratch the words in using the tip of a dead pen, but, otherwise, everything you see is completely crayon. (And drawing the Coca-Cola logo in coloured pencil was tough enough... here, in crayon scratches, it's almost completely illegible.)
As you can see, professional crayon artist Jeffrey Robert won't find serious competition in me, but I don't think this experiment was a total failure, and I might try drawing in crayon again sometime this summer, but, rest assured, my primary medium of choice will always be coloured pencils, as drawing with tiny little crayon stubs was just murder on my wrists.
I've added this drawing to my Fotopic drawing gallery.
The same pictures archived on different servers just for Google image search purposes:
Crayola crayon drawing of London's Piccadilly Circus in July 1998
A photo of Piccadilly Circus in July 1998
Prismacolor coloured pencil drawing of Piccadilly Circus in July 2000
Crayola crayon drawing of London's Piccadilly Circus in July 1998
A photo of Piccadilly Circus in July 1998
Prismacolor colored pencil drawing of Piccadilly Circus in July 2000
posted by Steve Brandon @ 11:48 PM
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