graphical blog 2

A thing that always wonder me in Guangzhou (广州) are the number of road in the sky on most strests. The vehicles are of all kinds. bicycle, electric bicycle, tricycle with baggage placement, big blue trucks, small (European/Asian style) to big cars including SUV and berlins, the thousands of bus lines and pedestrians crossing streets anywhere.

About the colors, this is a mix between raw concrete of these sky roads and old buildings from 70’s or 80’s with lot of tropical plants, palm trees and other everywhere, even on the sky roads. The polluted atmosphere is really lowered by all this vegetation.

The following drawing is not finished and ugly this is a quick sketch made with Gimp using graphic tablet.

Here a video to better understand theses streets:

rue_de_guangzhou.flv (MPlayer / VLC can read it)

Technique : MyPaint

Croquis de test / Test sketchs (réalisés avec Mypaint)

A bunny head I quicly drown with 3 Mypaint brushes (pencil, charcoal, and another I created).
Une tête de lapin rapidement créée avec 3 brosses de Mypaint (crayon, craie et une autre du même style que j’ai crée, mais plus large).

Textures mades on Gimp, illustrations on Inkscape.
The textures as applied to shapes with mask, like explained in previous post

Textures faites sous Gimp, illustrations sous Inkscape
Les textures sont appliquées aux formes par mask, comme expliqué dans un billet précédent