a night at the theatre ~
so i have a cold, right? and i can't really focus to do much, so all day i have been flitting between one thing and another: reading a little here, drawing a little there, trying to write (but not getting much done there). and i sat looking at my list of "sets" and decided, oh, i'll just try slapping something together and let's see what comes out.
a whoooooole lot of hours later, i have this to show for it, which was totally unexpected. it took me a lot more time and effort than i thought it would, but it also came out not too shabby at all. i freely robbed from Harper's Weekly (intentionally ~ it will be duly cited), but taking care to correct some of the fudged details from the original etching (like the flags and the curtains, the George Washington picture, and the arrangement of the columns. i decided not to put a theatrical set on the stage. the blank space will be easier to work with.
anyway, this is an extreme reduction, so you won't be able to see much detail, but you're not missing much either ~ it's a pretty simple line drawing.
all-in-all it's a little tidier than i had meant for it to be, but i'm calling it a "keeper". there are a couple of more details i might add, but that's one set down and about thirty more to go (many of which are a lot less complicated than this one).
Brady's actual photo from 1865 ~
this is one of two that shows the onstage set
and a different arrangement of the flags.
i will probably add the open lower boxes to my own.
this just may be do-able after all!
: D
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a whoooooole lot of hours later, i have this to show for it, which was totally unexpected. it took me a lot more time and effort than i thought it would, but it also came out not too shabby at all. i freely robbed from Harper's Weekly (intentionally ~ it will be duly cited), but taking care to correct some of the fudged details from the original etching (like the flags and the curtains, the George Washington picture, and the arrangement of the columns. i decided not to put a theatrical set on the stage. the blank space will be easier to work with.
anyway, this is an extreme reduction, so you won't be able to see much detail, but you're not missing much either ~ it's a pretty simple line drawing.
all-in-all it's a little tidier than i had meant for it to be, but i'm calling it a "keeper". there are a couple of more details i might add, but that's one set down and about thirty more to go (many of which are a lot less complicated than this one).
Brady's actual photo from 1865 ~
this is one of two that shows the onstage set
and a different arrangement of the flags.
i will probably add the open lower boxes to my own.
this just may be do-able after all!
: D
Read more
Nucleus LiveJournal Plugin © Evgeny Lykhin