Blowing out the dust here with process drawings !
I scribble a tonal map of the scene to get a general impression of what my mind was doing. But eventually I flipped and turned and redid a few more times before coming out with the first sketch.
In this one I pared the image down to two tones, a mid tone and a dark. I focused only on composition and the characters
I then take lighting and space into consideration. Direct lights a brighter tone but not perfect white. I save those for super bright highlights like the window above.
Once I get a good map of where stuff is placed I concentrate on I split the picture into thirds and concentrate on making each section detailed but disctinct from each other. No two sections should occupy the same tonal range and ground.
After much fine painting at higher magnifications I add in light effects and cry to my mother because I smeared a white line across my rendered spaces.
Unfortunately I missed a critical step where I reverse the image and fixed the perspective. Had I done it too soon then mistakes would develop as they were being added , too late and the amount of overhaul needed to fix the picture would have doubled my time. This process would have been perfect otherwise if I hadn't forgotten to mirror the image once in a while....
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