Drawing Conclusions
Artist's representation of Chicago's Water Tower I'm currently generating content to spruce up my company's home page as part of my landing page business experiment, and, since the name of my company is Coastal Chicago, I decided I'm going to use Chicago-themed content to populate the site. In order to personalize my content for my brand, I'm putting my burgeoning drawing abilities to use. The above drawing - if you're not into reading captions - is a representation of Chicago's Water Tower, one of the few buildings to survive the Great Fire of 1871. For comparison, here's a photo of the actual tower: Bernt Rostad , CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons While (re)learning to draw and simultaneously maintaining a mini art history site, I've become attuned to simple details that make images look more polished, even if they're simple representations. It's amazing what a simple shadow or a minor detail can add to an otherwise (literal) 2-D re...
