The Pearl Brewery
The once-shuttered Pearl Brewery is now home to a bunch of cool restaurants, offices and shops, as well as a campus of the Culinary Institute of America and apartments and condos. But the best part of the area is still the part-gothic, part-industrial brewery building itself, and until now I hadn't given it the proper attention in a drawing. There are plans to turn it into a hotel, and while I'm sure they'll retain all the 19th-century architecture, I doubt they'll keep all the cool pipes and fixtures sticking out of the sides. So in the interest of documenting that side of the building I finally sat down the other day (in the shade) and tackled it.
All I can say is WOW! I wouldn't have known where to start with this - amazing detail.
ReplyDeleteThanks Gillian! I usually start at the bottom and save the best for last but this time I couldn't resist starting at the top.
ReplyDeleteStraordinario!!!
ReplyDeleteI like it.
Beautiful! Do you start in pencil and then go over it in ink-or do you just naturally draw with your pen?
ReplyDeleteThanks Wawos and NSGrafx. NS, I start in pencil and rough out the basic proportions then do everything else in pen.
ReplyDeletewoooow...nice rendering, shadow and texture..look very real..
ReplyDeleteIncredible work, Paul.
ReplyDeleteThanks again!
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