This is Barcelona Cathedral. Not the Gaudí one you’ve all heard of (and not the Camp Nou, which is also a kind of cathedral, of sorts), but the Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia, built between the 13th and 15th centuries in the old town. The neo-Gothic façade wasn’t built until the 19th Century, so all in all this makes the Sagrada Familia seem like a rush job. These sort of epic buildings take time. It’s all quite stunning. This was on a warm Saturday afternoon, and I was on my way to the final sketchcrawl meeting at the end of the Urban Sketching Symposium. This took me less than an hour of quite rapid sketching, which for all the details I was quite impressed with. I added the colour later on, as I had to get a move on. I do wish I’d had time to go inside, I understand the interior is quite lovely. I sat in the shade to sketch this. I love sketching a cathedral. Cathedrals, pubs and fire hydrants, that’s me.
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Your images are always, always BRILLIANT! You’re so much talented. I love every picture from you!!
cheers, i appreciate that!
I like the colour. There is just enough. I tend to overdo it when I have a go, but then my line work is childish scrawl compared to yours but I find it restful to concentrate on something else.
Pretty damn awesome for an hour of inking alone – absolutely incredible sketch!
Thanks Jason! It’s weird, I know I can do something with this sort of detail in an hour, and then I have those days where it takes me an hour to draw half a tractor. It helped that this was really symmetrical…
Love it!