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The town of BrokkHoddle - Blacksmithing Quarter.

Fergal O' Connor
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I was commissioned to create a piece based on Blacksmithing, which is the clients passion. The piece was originally to be A3 though during the design process it doubled in size. The piece depicts a busy square area of town, where blacksmithing is the main activity and industry. The town itself is very well known across the lands for it's supreme smithing traditions and the skills of the masters whose forge fires have long burned within the town walls. The work they craft draws strangers from from all across the land to the town. In this scene, we see but a glimpse of this bustling busy steaming town, crowded lanes full of hissing steam, the clanging of hammers and glow of the fires. I hope you enjoy the following images which begin with a collection of initial sketches and runs through to the finished piece. Now, there's two many images for me to bother putting captions on, so I'll shut up and let you discover the many little details and curious characters that mill about the scene. c:

The piece is A2 in size: 42 x 59cm, and was made with pencils, fineliner pens and watercolours on watercolour paper.

This was my last piece of 2016, completed just before Christmas.
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I did many many thumbnails and sketching, these are just a few, the perspective and composition was a nightmare for me to figure out and I was stuck for a long time deciding whether to focus on interior views or outside views. So it was a while before I found a balance.
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
Various building design sketches, these were chopped and changed many times while I was trying to get everything to fit in together.
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
Completed linework, before I turned it into an over-saturated chocolate box.
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'Begin chocolate box-ification'
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
I thought I said I wouldn't caption these..I bought the prussian blue by mistake, I use indigo just about everywhere.
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
city fantasy whimsical detail buildings blacksmiths forges comission Watercolours old
You've made it! I sincerely hope you've enjoyed the piece. If you'd like to see more of my work, please follow me through the links below.


Happy new year everyone! I look forward to sharing much more work with you through 2017.

- Fergal


The town of BrokkHoddle - Blacksmithing Quarter.
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The town of BrokkHoddle - Blacksmithing Quarter.

A commissioned piece. This painting is a scene of a fantasy town and depicts the blacksmithing district, an area of the town where blacksmithing Read More

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