The development of my Jack the Ripper environment was a difficult one due to me focusing on the wrong aspects of the drawing at the beginning which led to having to make quite a few corrections towards the end.
From my preparatory sketches, I knew I wanted a strong contrast in tonal values- heavy darks against lights and make it so the light tones fade into the background. I don’t think that was necessarily a bad plan but focusing on the heavy darks first made it so I went a bit too dark initially. With going so dark, my rendering got a bit blocky and there were very little tonal shifts in the darkest building towards the front. On one hand I had a basis on what was dark and I knew not to go as dark as that tone on more or less everything else. On the other hand my foreground objects were looking a bit flat and boring.
The rest of
the drawing compositionally felt a bit narrow but it had the contrast in tones
that I wanted. With all this though, I could’ve done more to introduce a more eerie
atmosphere which would’ve better suited a Jack the Ripper landscape. I could’ve
potentially made the tones on the street a bit less varied to look like fog or
darkened down the lighter tones by a bit to give a more night time impression.
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