Day thirty-five of The 100 Day Project for 2021.
I left my sketch until about 23:30 yesterday because I did some catching up on sleep and then worked for about six hours.
So I finished yesterday's drawing a few minutes after midnight today.
Full disclosure: I did correct the lean on this with a slight rotation when cropping in Photoshop. I'm not sure if that was in my photography or in the original drawing.
It didn't fix the general wonkiness of the guitar's neck and other elements, though.
Looking at it as I prepped it for posting, I was reminded of Tom Wait's The piano has been drinking (not me). I was sober when I started drawing, I swear! :)
I sketched this with a 4H pencil. Added shadows using a 6B, a 4B and a 2B. I went over some of the outline with an HB pencil and accentuated other spots with the 4H used heavier.
I wanted to visit Tamworth on previous road trips. But it's so far inland, and many people argue it's not a particularly interesting route.
Simon and I hadn't planned to visit Tamworth on our road trip from Melbourne to Brisbane in November 2019. We'd been planning to take a mostly coastal route with a detour into the Blue Mountains.
The bushfires had other ideas.
So I finally, after 42 years, with all but about 11 of them living in Australia, made it to Tamworth.
To be honest, we didn't see that much of the city as we were conscious we had a way to go to beat the bushfires to get to my uncle's place the next day.
As it was, during the first part of our road trip, the route via the New England Highway had been closed due to bushfires. We just managed to cut through in a period when it had reopened after the fires that devastated areas around Glen Innes and Tenterfield. While the bushfires were conveniently distracted by the enticing landscapes of Port Macquarie, where we had intended to stay in a caravan park cabin.
If the Devil had proposed a deal whereby I could visit Tamworth but, in exchange, large parts of Australia had to burn, that was a deal I would not have struck...