For the mode of transport I decided on a bus, I wanted to focus in on the stairs of double decker busses. My roughs are still sketchy but I am trying to block out important shapes more than wispy lines.
I realised fairly early on that I needed some reference images as I had no idea how the stairs of a bus worked, or the hole in the top floor where they emerge looked like but once I had the references the images were much easier to rough out.
I had wanted to draw someone appearing on the top floor, having come up the stairs. The perspective of the aisle and passengers looking at the person would create the line of sight. However while I was drawing my roughs I found the image of someone walking up the stairs (seen from the lower floor) had a more interesting and clear line of sight. As it led from the passenger stood up, to the person on the stairs, to the mysterious foot disappearing.
The final image had to be black white and one other colour. I chose to use a dark blue as I wanted it to look like a dreary british day, the use of watercolour helped make the scenery look extra wet too. Although I am happy with my image I think I could have limited my use of the colour here to draw more attention to the line of sight, or added more black shadows to break it up more. I had thought about adding an extra person at the front of the bus, buying a ticket but in my roughs I found this detracted from the main focus of the people going up the stairs so I did not include them. I feel that the line of sight in my image is strong as the eye is lead from the foreground passenger, up to the people on the stairs. Though I did find it a little difficult to create an image while thinking 'this has to have a line of sight'. I feel like a lot of the time a line of sight is created through other compositional choices rather than consciously thinking 'ah yes line of sight'. Despite this I think I will definitely keep line of sight in mind when creating future images.
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