Goodbye Cerdanyola

Well, it's goodbye Cerdanyola and farewell to the ol' drawing board! Quite some time has passed since the last post! This has been due to some recent changes. Work on the 2D project finally came to an end. This has implied a few alterations to my daily routine! No more sketching in Cerdanyola and no more sketching on the train (for the moment anyway). Now I’m working in the centre of Barcelona city, on a new project using Toonboom and Cintiq, so along with a change in time schedules I haven’t been able to get around to doing any drawing lately. Hopefully that’ll change as soon as I get use to the new job. Until then, here’s some photos of Cerdanyola and what has been my working area for the last few years.







It’s funny but in the beginning I didn’t really like Cerdanyola as I found it to be quite a cold and ugly place. Then, when I started to go sketching at lunch time, I began to find all the things I didn’t like became interesting and inspiring. All those tower blocks and roof top aerials, gonna miss ‘em! Can’t wait to start sketching again, tons of amazing buildings in Barcelona to draw, just a little bit more clustered than in Cerdanyola.

Cerdanyola

These are a few sketches done at lunch time in Cerdanyola, where the studio is located. Guess it won't be too long before all those roof top aerials become a thing of the past.

Train

Some fellow train travellers on the way to work

Parc de la Cuitadella

The Barcelona Zoo is located in the Parc de la Ciutadella, another good sketching spot. It's amusing at this time of year to see some people in t-shirts and shorts while others are well wrapped up with hats, scarves and gloves.

Plaza Sketches

One of my favorite spots for sketching is the Plaza Catedral in the Barrio Gothic. A lot of people gather there on sunday mornings to see the Sardana dancing,so there is usually a good mix of old people and turists to sketch from. As usual, no one stays still for very long...


Thought I'd play around with proportions with these two.





line and tone study

2 October 2007

Today is a day to remember; my sister gave birth to a baby boy at 2am today. Thought I'd celebrate by making my first posts, with some sketches of some fellow train passengers and from other locations around Barcelona.