Doodle Street
by thisnorthernboy
Doodles often end up being much more, which is sometimes a problem if I’ve started doodling on a scrap of paper, or if I’m simply sketching in a corner of another drawing. However, yesterday, my doodle simply evolved to fill the space available.
I began scribbling the beginnings of a house on a folded piece of paper I was using to keep another drawing clean while I worked.
I quite liked where it was going, so I carried on, and on. Eventually filling the space I had with half a street’s worth of buildings.
I added some background, and extended the street with a little tudor building to the left, worked in a bit more detail and the pen work was finished, just the colouring was left.
I use photoshop to colour my drawings, using multiple layers to build up the colour and detail. The final version of Doodle Street has over 80 of these layers. To show how this builds up into a final illustration I made a process movie…
The final image is shown below…
Wowsers! I’d love to live on Doodle Street :o)
Me too Amy, it’ll be even better when I draw the flower shop, the cake shop, and the pub!
When you add the flower shop, the bakery, and the pub, I’ll be there, too. All we need is a pet store as well…
[…] was pointed out to me that Doodle Street was missing a few crucial amenities. Notably a flower shop, a pie shop, and of course a […]
I *LOVE* this!
I’d easily have this on my living room wall – it’s fab, so whimsical!
Can I confess that I love the B&W original doodle just as much though 😉
Hi Viki, glad you like it! And of course you can like the black and white versions more! I do too.
I follow you twitter but can’t send a dm. I wondered do you take commissions for creating branding? I am a make up artist and looking to pull together some branding in readiness for business stationery and website
Hi Julie, thanks for your message. I do accept commissions – and I love branding work. If you’d like to drop me an email – rob at thisnorthernboy dot co dot uk – and let me know what kind of thing you’re looking for that would be great.
Cheers,
Rob
Thanks Rob I will do that over the next few days, in the meantime I will research some ideas!
Cheers
Julie
Perfect. I’m heading on holiday next Wednesday, so if we could have a chat before I go away that would be great.
Rob,
This is wonderful. Beautiful. I love this so much. Just so you know, there is a lil girl livin in Kuala Lumpur falling in love with your doodle.
Keep it up. 🙂
– Mal
I am seriously loving Doodle Street, you should get these printed and sell them seriously I’d buy one, they are fab well done
Thanks Karen!
I love it!! Cute and beautiful! xD
Groovy shiii
[…] more on the character of the village itself – drawing some cues from my earlier illustration ‘Doodle Street’ – and I also knew that I was really looking forward to drawing that […]
Hi, i read your blog occasionally and i own a ssimilar one and i wass just wondering if you get a lot oof spam comments?
If so how do you reduce it, any plugin or anything you can advise?
I get so much lately it’s drivung me mad so any support is very much appreciated.
Hi Rob, I’ve just emailed you to talk about doodle street…I thought I’d better let you know in case if disappears into your junk file! Many thanks.