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AVENUE DES CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES... CRAYOLA'd!

Here's a crayon drawing that I decided to keep under wraps completely here until it was done, since it's a drawing that works better as a "whole".



This is a crayon drawing I did based on a photo of the sidewalk of Paris's Avenue des Champs Elysees which I took on Bastille Day weekend in July 1997. (Original Avenue des Champs-Élysées photo.)

It's my second attempt to do a serious crayon drawing as an adult, and it took a fair bit longer for me to do than my crayon drawing of London's Piccadilly Circus.

It's crudely drawn, yet quite detailed. I didn't really attempt to draw faces on most of the people because the photo it's based on was taken at twilight, and I can't really make any faces out in that picture either.

It's also a little more distorted than my other drawings, since I decided that I'd do the rough pencils completely freehand, without measuring and scaling any key lines the way I did for my other drawings.

I felt that I had a vague Impressionistic vibe when I was drawing it.

I'm satisfied with this picture, but, the next time I do a crayon drawing, I'm going to base it on a photo that's a little less "crowded", and I'll try and draw on a larger piece of card.

Yes, it is yet another drawing that I've done that features McDonald's Golden Arches logo, but it isn't as prominent as it is at Piccadilly Circus.


My Drawings gallery is now up to a dozen pictures!


The same drawing, hosted on a couple of different servers for Google Image search reasons.

This is a crayon drawing I did based on a photo of the sidewalk of Paris's Avenue des Champs Elysees which I took on Bastille Day weekend in July 1997.

This is a crayon drawing I did based on a photo of the sidewalk of Paris's Avenue des Champs Elysees which I took on Bastille Day weekend in July 1997.

This is a crayon drawing I did based on a photo of the sidewalk of Paris's Avenue des Champs Elysees which I took on Bastille Day weekend in July 1997.

This is a crayon drawing I did based on a photo of the sidewalk of Paris's Avenue des Champs Elysees which I took on Bastille Day weekend in July 1997.

posted by Steve Brandon @ 8:30 AM