My last post was in January (yikes, where has the time gone!), about my desire to learn to draw. I tried to do drawings of my surroundings, or my imagination every day. Of course, as soon as things got busy for the summer, I found it very difficult to continue this practice. But I did come out with a series of nice drawings of Schull, my next town here in West Cork. I worked these illustrations into my new model kit: Tiny Schull
As always, I worked these illustrations onto my models. This, I feel, gives my models an added gifty feel. They are like three dimensional postcards, and they put the chosen buildings into the context of the surrounding landscape and history. Please take some time to look at the finished sheets below to see how my illustrations work on the buildings:
My sketches of impressions gathered of Rosscarbery and its surrounding landscape make great backdrops to the beautiful facades of the town.
After scanning in my images, I use Photoshop to merge the drawings together. I then bring them into Illustrator, where I use my technical model drawings to trim the artwork into a kit:
Now it's time to make the 3D Model: score all edges to be folded with something pointy , then cut out carefully, fold and glue! Ta Da!!!
This is just one of five beautiful models you'll find in Tiny Rosscarbery
The preliminary collage of Pilgrim's Rest: a view of the Drombeg stone circle and two deer in the foreground...
O'Callaghan Walshe's with a backdrop of Warren strand and the seals basking on the rocks.. fishermen bringing in the pots...
And here is the full pack: 5 models to make, enjoy, display - easy to fit into an A4 envelope and send all over the world. Not everyone will make it to Rosscarbery this year!
