Inktober day 11 Winding Stairs

[eller]

Again, a fast and scribbly one - but at least I'm up to date again... I drew this at work, while my colleague was making me a friendship bracelet. Yes, we were actually working - except with computational modellers, casual observers don't always notice that. (I'll never forget us being introduced to someone as "those two are our modellers - they're geniuses, which explains a lot". Still waiting for anyone to refer to me as a genius in any other context, though. XD) Anyway - we were discussing Hidden Markov Models, and actually making a lot of progess, but to an unitiated observer, it would have looked like drawing and macrame, respectively. With tea and cookies.

My warm grey watercolor marker finally died completely, and the replacement ones I ordered have not arrived yet. That means I had to use a Faber Castell PITT marker, also in Warm Grey III, for parts of this picture. Which annoys me a lot. Not through any fault of that marker (I was happy to discover that Faber Castell seem to use the same pigments for their PITT markers as for their watercolor markers, so the color is indeed identical) but simply because I wanted to limit myself to one type of marker, and this is the wrong one. :(

Comments

[shadaras]

I love the perspective and the moths! If I don't look too closely, it almost looks like one of those mine-cart sections in an old video-game, with the old wood and the rails. :)

[eller]

Huh... Now there's something I'd also love to draw at some point! I've actually been to old mines (one of the perks of geoscience) and, yes, I'd love to paint that atmosphere at some point... :3

[shadaras]

That would be super cool! When/if you do, I look forward to seeing it. :)