Temple Drawing!

Feedback from most of my tutorials have liked the idea of doing large scale drawings and paintings inspired by my trip there - using my sketchbook and my own primary photographs for reference. I started drawing a scene from a temple into card with some thick blunt pencils from the studio at uni. I liked using these as tools because they stopped me being a perfectionist about form and let me focus on conveying the right mood and motion of the scene. Obviously I used my photograph as reference but because I took the photo, I have my own memories from the event so I can combine this into the illustration.

I used some warm vibrant yellow paper as a base because India is all about colour, so I wanted to ensure I started off the piece with a blast of colour. because there is a lot of white in the image the yellow background also enabled me to draw attention to the white elements.