Number five: St Chad’s Church, (I think)!
The final post of this week features a lovely looking church not far from Snow Hill station that I pass every day on my way home.
I’ve still got a load more to do, but if you have a particularly interesting building in mind please let me know.
Enjoy the bank holiday and see you all next week.
Number four: Birmingham Cathedral.
I particularly enjoyed spending about three hours trying to interpret the windows of Birmingham Cathedral. So much detail! But so rewarding once I worked out how to do it!
Number three: Moor Street Station.
Those of you who have in the past, seen some of my photographic joiners will be aware that I hold a bit of an interest in architecture, and that I quite often use it as the subject of my personal work. However, it wasn’t until I began working on this project that I realised the incredibly intricate detailing that goes into every building. Even the seemingly minimal buildings such as yesterdays Mailbox are so obviously designed to the last detail.
Today’s building, Moor Street Station, I particularly enjoyed interpreting. The colour of the bricks contrasted against the deep blue sky are beautiful, the arch shaped windows are balanced so well with the porthole windows, whilst the fine detailing in the signs and even the supporting pillars allowed me to add so much character.
A few weeks ago I wouldn’t have looked twice at Birmingham’s buildings, now I can’t walk by without taking photos!
Number two: The Mailbox.
So here is number two in the series, and probably one of the most time consuming to create. The minimal, modern architecture proved to be more difficult to recreate than the more detailed seen in the Council House illustration. But we love a challenge at SMILE.
Well, where to start? It’s been a while! Too long in fact, but never fear, we at SMILE are back on the blogging scene with plenty of new ideas, work and just general exciting bits to keep you all entertained for a while.
For the past few weeks I’ve been working on a very satisfying, if incredibly time-consuming illustration project. I’m not quite sure how that happened really as I am by no means good with a pencil, and have previously avoided any illustration work at any cost!
It all began when a brief came in for a Birmingham based client. Nathan and I were working through some ideas when we took a trip out of the studio to have a look at a few locations around the city centre. A hot summers afternoon, some city centre photos and a couple of beers later we returned with our concept for the project - a location inspired set of illustrations focused on some of the beautiful buildings within the city.
Unfortunately, we didn’t win the brief, but I was hooked, so have continued to develop the style with the aim of turning them into prints once I have created enough buildings!
I’ll be blogging a different building every day this week so pop back at the same time tomorrow to see the next one!
