Time Drawn: April 2013
Like most of my drawings, this one started as an experiment.
Ok, that’s not quite true. It started because I woke up one morning just really wanting to draw a cannon. The experiment came a little later.
On paper I usually start a drawing by sketching out the lines that define the shape, then I ink the lines and add color later.
This time, I did that in reverse.
Well, I did start with a rough sketch, but rather than sketching lines, I sketched shapes. A blob here for the cannon body, a blob there for that wheel, and so on. Then I started adding color and shading. And finally I inked it, using the already established color as the guidelines.
And then, thanks to the joy of working digital, I turned off the layer with my quick sketch, erased all the parts of the cannon that overflowed the lines, and tossed in a one-minute background.
And then wrote this post and put it online. But you might have figured that step out already.
