Istanbul. Hagia Sophia or Church of the Holy Wisdom. Digital sketch. Built by Isidorus the Elder and Anthemius of Thrallos under Emperor Justinian in 537 AD.
Maybe Istanbul was the city in the sky where the people who were our reflections lived.
Burhan Sönmez
A quick trip to Ahmet Square in Istanbul on my way back from Italy, to visit Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque. You can see my photos and a video on @sketchbloom
These are my first architectural sketches using my new Ipad and the SKETCHES app.
( I had previously used drawing apps on my phone to sort-of draw a portrait, experiment with digital watercolor and collage).
Learning the tools and the limits of the app was really interesting, as was experimenting with all the different tools and lineweights. I completed these few days ago on the plane ride from Istanbul to Los Angeles- looking at photos i took. The first one took me 15 minutes, the second one three hours. No ruler was used, tracing or overlaying – just a stylus with different tips and a brush.
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