As an exercise with online Elite Animation Academy Art students, I had them look up their home on Google maps and then use a Street View to sketch a two point perspective view. I sketched the house I was born in. Since our family left the home back in 1972, a second story was added above the garage and the second story dormer was replaced with a full second story. The resulting building is a simple cube shape with another cube shaped garage attached.
The building is a warm tan in 2022 but back in 1972 it was a steel grey. I thought it might have been grey simply because we only have black and white photos of the building. By older brothers and sisters however confirmed the true color. I got multiple details wrong in my initial pass at this sketch but brothers and sisters corrected my memories from back when I was 10 years old.
I was doing this house sketch exercise with one student and for some reason he was not able to draw any lines on his iPad. I went through a long series of checks vie our Zoom call to try and find out what might be wrong. We turned his iPad off and on again. We checked the opacity levels and made sure he had black chosen as the color for his iPencil lines. Finally I asked him to show me how he was drawing his lies. Maybe it had to do with how he held the pencil. I was surprised to see that he was trying to draw on the iPad with a 6B lead pencil. It left no marks on the glass surface. When we realized that this was the “Tech” issue we both had a good laugh. He has an iPencil and we will be using it next time we sketch together. When he said he was using a pencil each time I asked, he wasn’t lying. This is an example of the types of challenges faced by an Analog Artist in a Digital World.