The librarian's tangents.

Causing myself a slight qualm concerning the Wombat project here’s a comparison between the textured and untextured versions of the Little Wall of Bethlehem pic. (I say a qualm as, so far, Wombat is untextured but I may change my mind on that… Hmm… decisions decisions…) Anyhow the workflow on this one was: idea at 11am, doodling (while having coffee with family – they’re used to my, ahem, multitasking when a picture takes over) between 12.30 and 1.30, finished between 4 and 5 including textures. It wasn’t intentional to get the image done so speedily, sometimes I just like to see where somethings going fast. Normally I doodle something out on the screen in Brushes and then whack it down to a low opacity and draw a new version of the outline and then repeat the process until I’m happy with it. This time the outline I doodled was the one I stayed with (with one small change – the original picture had a searchlight on it so was going to be a dusk like image – as soon as I started colouring I wanted to do it slightly bluer sky so the searchlight went). Then I coloured it and then it was into Pixelmator to be textured.

Saw some images of Bethlehem courtesy of a friend who worked over there for the past year. The pictures painted a truly sad and demoralising story better than the (excellent) conversation and this doodle sprung to mind pretty much complete as we chatted. Followed it up since and here it am. The image is not a comment on the rights or wrongs, which side is worse than the other or anything like that because it’s easy to make rash statements without understanding the situation. Then again with something like this who does understand it?

Brushes, hour and a half followed up with 40 minutes in Pixelmator adding texture and tone.