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Posted on 25/10/24 09:44:08 AM

DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 1026: The house at the end of the road

Steve Caplin wrote:
I particularly like that we’re seeing the back of the curtains from the outside. My only issue is that, as with Ben’s image, the archway doesn’t look deep enough from below to contain the room above.

Glad you spotted the curtains. I completely missed the depth aspect. You are quite right. Either the arch itself would have been a short tunnel or there would be a horizontal back edge of the room visible beyond it.

I enjoyed doing this one. My kind of challenge!

I greatly enjoyed tripping down memory lane with your collection of drawing implements. I used very similar tools back in the 80s.

I really loved them. So satisfying and tactile. When I moved house lesser space meant that the board and it's accompaniments, which had been with me most of my adult life, had to go. I discovered that, although all in absolutely perfect condition, there was no real market for them. Rather than accepting a pittance I gave them away to a (very happy) garden designer in exchange for a good dinner.

DavidMac's entry gets the shape and spread of the shadow just about right – very well calculated. The illuminated bulb is good, but could be slightly more dazzling. Altogether a very commendable effort, and very much closer than you give yourself credit for.

I started out fairly confident and then got lost. It was clear it was going to be a 'cinemascope' shape but, without real clues as to distance from wall of the shade, it was impossible to predict curvature. The fact that I was quite close is more a matter of what felt right than skill.

Thanks Steve.

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Posted on 25/10/24 3:30:19 PM

lwc
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Re: Challenge 1026: The house at the end of the road

Steve Caplin wrote:
...who’s the man flying in front of him?

Not flying, stooped over. R.M. Renfield is a character in Bram Stoker’s 1897 horror novel. His trousers were not well defined enough to show up.

Obviously I had fun with this one, thanks Steve.

Posted on 26/10/24 05:45:12 AM

Ben Boardman
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Re: Challenge 1026: The house at the end of the road

while the room is clearly big enough to hold them, there’s no sense of its depth from the outside.

Thank you Steve, I hadn't even considered that. Good challenge.

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