This image was completed within an hour and 10 minutes on A3 using grayscale graphic markers. The idea was to capture the clouds above a cityscape, impressionistic techniques were used to describe the land while the clouds remained highly detailed. Long powerful wild strokes allowed to grasp the form of the unpredictable clouds while sharp careful lines described the structures and land. This gave a strong contrast between land and sky and worked as contrasting elements.
Initially viewing the picture the concept of composition is brought forth while the image doesn’t have a specific focal point, the entire sky is used as the focus. Bringing the horizon line low allowed for more coverage of clouds and finally a visually pleasing composition. While something of similar effect could have been achieved by soft media such as charcoal, the choice of graphic markers worked well in this situation, the limited choice of tone, allowed for tones to both be mixed and contrast amongst themselves creating a nice dynamic between the rough clouds and shadow. One of the strongest points of the image and actually could be questioned to be the focus point is the dividing light between the clouds and land. This allowed the land and sky to stand out on their own, giving a nice emphasis to the depth of the picture and the tower separating the light while it may be arguably too white and delivers too much impact, the general idea of depth separation is there.
