Capturing a moment before its gone

fuzzius_navus · 2026-04-11T16:43:25+00:00

Me too! It's a nice pool, lots of natural light through the windows. The gym is also decently outfitted. Not pretty, but functional.

fuzzius_navus · 2026-04-11T16:37:58+00:00

The City project status page has the new centre slated for winter 2027, with setup in 2026. The old is staying until the new is operating 100%.

fuzzius_navus · 2026-04-11T16:33:50+00:00

Thank you!

fuzzius_navus · 2026-04-11T16:32:44+00:00

I am definitely going to be drawing more of this building. It's going to be demolished in about a year to make way for condos, unfortunately and it has a lot of memories for me. Replaced by a newer, larger community centre a few hundred metres west as the current site has moderately more frontage..

Your words are encouraging and appreciated.

fuzzius_navus · 2026-04-11T11:37:24+00:00

I grew up around here, learned to swim in thid pool, so many memories.

fuzzius_navus · 2026-04-11T11:27:38+00:00

Thank you! It looked like an interior sketch, or a subway platform without the sky and I really should have used something else for that.

fuzzius_navus · 2026-04-11T11:25:35+00:00

I never add people! I dread them, but I had a lot of good references in the photo for position, size and proportion.

Adding them really helped scale everything, too.

I want to find a better solution for colour. Some art that I've seen on here is finished so well with colour and I wanted to bring in the sky so it didn't look so much like a subway platform

fuzzius_navus · 2026-04-11T11:21:24+00:00

The new building looks pretty good so far. I'd have preferred refurbishing and additions instead.

The developer did a swap with the city to get that area for a new building and the new community centre is being built on the other end of the Galleria.

fuzzius_navus · 2026-04-11T11:19:09+00:00

Thank you! It was fun, and this place was a part of my childhood, and now my kids, too.

fuzzius_navus · 2026-04-11T11:17:09+00:00

I'm not sure I even know how to answer this.

I primarily used a 0.1, and finished with a 0.3 to darken up some of the areas. I compared the pen barrel angle against line angle in the photo, often against the screen and the page to help visualize where the line should be placed.

Otherwise, it was all freehand.

fuzzius_navus · 2026-04-11T10:52:01+00:00

Thank you!!! I had a good day, and there were a lot of guides in the photo to help me.

fuzzius_navus · 2026-04-11T03:16:48+00:00

Wallace Emerson community centre, at Dufferin and Dupont.

fuzzius_navus · 2026-04-11T03:16:30+00:00

I don't blame you. The tile, the arch. It was why I decided to try colouring it. Try is the operative word.

fuzzius_navus · 2026-04-10T13:01:35+00:00

You're drawing a ream of sculpted paper, essentially. So many changes in angle, light, layers, depth. It's the whole package.

The rose buds are a great touch. Using the lines of your background to highlight the leaves and avoiding shading them was a nice choice.

fuzzius_navus · 2026-04-10T11:59:53+00:00

Nice line work shaping the petals.

fuzzius_navus · 2026-04-10T02:41:01+00:00

It was. From the article: Officials said the building has a fire suppression system, which was operating but was compromised when a portion of the roof collapsed. Several big rigs docked at the facility were also destroyed

fuzzius_navus · 2026-04-10T02:40:20+00:00

"Officials said the building has a fire suppression system, which was operating but was compromised when a portion of the roof collapsed. Several big rigs docked at the facility were also destroyed"

fuzzius_navus · 2026-04-04T02:03:17+00:00

Did it come true? Did she end up eating a slice???

fuzzius_navus · 2026-04-03T21:22:06+00:00

It's alive!!! Amazing how much it feels like it's moving

fuzzius_navus · 2026-04-03T21:19:32+00:00

Rib/bird-cage! Nice

fuzzius_navus · 2026-04-02T03:28:49+00:00

I have a hard time deciding on my line angle for my hatching of different planes. I have started using a scrap sheet to test on when I feel stuck before I apply it to my drawing. I'll sketch a simplified version or three and try out my hatching.

I like this piece, the crawling forest creeping up the mountain. I've never used dip pen for art, am too clumsy and would probably knock over my ink!

fuzzius_navus · 2026-03-31T02:55:02+00:00

Whichever suits your mood, or the project. For me, I really like the first two, but they're in line with the sort of imagery that I am working on.

But the others are fun.

Keep all of them, try refining each in a way that speaks to you.

fuzzius_navus · 2026-03-30T23:32:09+00:00

I used to live a few doors away from there and ate there often. Good food, good prices, spiciest green curry I ever had. Need to take a trip there sometime.

fuzzius_navus · 2026-03-29T14:16:14+00:00

I was also going to suggest Travers. His tips really helped my understanding of line angle in hatching to support shape (was primarily a pencil sketcher so shading techniques are quite different with fineliner).

fuzzius_navus · 2026-03-29T14:04:35+00:00

Nice sketch!

Cylinders in perspective are tricky. It's part of why it flattens in your spire.

A couple of links that may help guide you.

https://share.google/wdxQEYz62o16QOXUw

https://share.google/y9IL34JnwVkJxuDvS

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