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Drawing the Final Castle

Once we had finalized what our outcome would look like, and I had practiced the perspective I was to draw at, I could draw the final castle into its' place on our collaborative image.
It was quite tricky to work at, as it is fairly small on our page, and I have a much "heavier" hand than the others working on this piece, so I had to lighten my lines to match theirs and not skew the perspective.
I am mostly happy with this piece, but I still think I have to practice with perspective. The towers are too tall and the castle is too close over the horizon. I also had trouble with the crenelations on the battlements, as the merlons ended up quite "wobbly" because I had to work at a very small scale, and even with a finely sharpened pencil, my lines were too thick!
I am could also improve the glass "walkway" tube, which looks slightly twisted. It was difficult to portray a curved transparent glass tube at this distance, as many details that help make it look 3D wouldn't work in miniature.

My final practice image.

My final practice image.

Drawing the construction lines.

Drawing the construction lines.

Outlining the towers.

Outlining the towers.

Adding the image lines.

Adding the image lines.

The finished castle.

The finished castle.

Our final collab image, scanned in.

Our final collab image, scanned in.