Steam Train

The fourth and final installment of the steam themed vehicles is the train. Again, a strong part of the English heritage that i would like to continue to reflect. The aim would be to keep to roughly the same style/template of image and instead of a couple of fair tents or living van in the background, i would like the piece to include snaking carriages against a hill-side background inspired by Arik Roper's illustration (http://www.arikroper.com/) found on the cover of the most recent Black Crowes album Before The Frost:

With this in mind of roughly what i am aiming for i have begun scowering both books and internet for images of trains that reflect my ideas The first few old black and white images are form a book titled In and Around Blandford, which is my hometown:

The outcomes:

Having scanned my final outcome i am displeased with it because of the line quality i obtained whilst putting the pen over the pencil lines. However, the only thing that this means is that i will have to work extra hard in Illustrator to correct myself.

Scanned and detailed in Adobe Illustrator just like the previous three pieces of work, this is at last now ready to be coloured digitally.

Using The same colour schemes once again as these seem to be working the best, either black or red has to be my initial reaction if i were to pick between colours. There's something about the burgundy that makes me think of steam trains. The green however does work well and is reflecting of British Racing Green, But i think that green would be best suited on the steam roller.

Ready for the water over lay, here is the scanned outcome ready for use again having been live traced at 125:

These outcomes have greatly restored my faith in these pieces of work. Each one is tied together fully now in my opinion as before they felt lose and un-concentrated. I still think that it's between the red and black outcomes that i will have to be choosing from though...