Illustration Friday - METROPOLITAN
When I first moved to London as an impoverished student, one of the cheap fun ways to see the city was to board the nearest red double-decker bus (getting a bird's eye view from the front seat on the upper deck) staying on it until the end of the route and then catching a bus back. Despite everything that's happened in the last week the London bus will always delight me.
posted by Julie Oakley at Tuesday, July 12, 2005
14 Comments:
Im glad to see and hear that the double decker is still enjoyed dispite last week. *glad you were not directly effected* love the illustration!
Cheerful and colourful way to share a great city with us! Gorgeous illo.
great perspective and form and everything! :-)
This is just great! I really like the colors and persective - and look at those cute little rowers in the river! This piece serves now to honor the one of a kind double decker bus and all the fun it's brought to people for years. Kudos!
Thank you everyone for your positive comments. Drawing techy things like vehicles is not really my forte, but I think these buses do lend themselves to a fairly loose style. The perspective was to put the emphasis on me and my friend sitting above the driver.
The bus may not lend itself to loose lines but you handled it perfectly. It's a great piece and the forced perspective is awesome
The illo is great! The colors, the angle... everything!
I like it... I feel that way about the double deckers, too. And i just figured out who your drawings remind me of sometimes... Edward Ardizonne... Yours are a bit brighter... but the liveliness is comparable.
Thanks for the tip! If I ever manage to make my way to England, I'll do the same. Great illustration! :0)
Thanks for the compliments. And sultry painter woman, you know that idea that there's only six people between you and any other person on the planet, well, my sister was in the same school class as Edward Ardizzone's grand-daughter!
Bright and cheery - works really well.
i like the rowers almost hidden in the river
Beautiful illustration with great colors. I love the double-deckers in London.
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They can't take that away.
(btw. this is great use of perspective, and I especially love the way you've rendered the boat and rowers!)Stay strong! Most people are good.
it so awesome! how to make it????
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