Mixed technique: digital drawing / Photoshop. The street is called Storgata and it’s in Oslo.
Storgata in Oslo. Digital drawing & Photoshop.
It’s a rather boring street and there’s nothing exciting going on there. Sometime around the end of the 1990’s this street held an illegal nightclub that was open all night, but after a while the police closed it down. That’s all I have to say about this drawing and this street. If you have anything to add that I haven’t already mentioned: feel free to write a comment.
EDIT: Decided to add the original photo.
Storgata, Oslo. Early one summer morning 2012.
Cardinal Guzman 
Your interpretation seems apt. There are no cars, there are no pedestrians, anything that moves.
but the colors are beautiful … and also the prospect …
Hello artist of my heart! ♥
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The original picture was shot early in the morning, so there were no people outside. Even in the middle of the day there’s not a lot of people.
You sure added interest to the boring street. Hip. Surreal. Draws the eye!
Thank you. I decided to add the original photo to the post as well, it was probably one of the few days of sun this summer.
Knows Storgata, very well done… ‘smile’
I wonder why it’s called Storgata? It’s not even remotely big.
(explanation for all you non-Norwegian/Danish speakers: ‘Stor’ means large, big, huge, major, grand in Danish/Norwegian)
It’s sometimes funny – in Copenhagen among a lot others there’s 2 streets called “Smallegade” (Slim Street) og “Bredgade” (Wide Street) – but the first ia wide and the last slim… 😉
very cool, as always.
Thanks Sedge
I like this and also enjoy doing this sort of thing to pictures, some with good and and some with bad results…
I’ve just started with these kind of techniques, because I recently bought a drawing board with a USB cable. I made one picture the other day, but the result was absolutely horrible: I guess it’s all a matter of taste, but that particular picture was just a disaster!
Previously I’ve been using different filters and effects that Photoshop offers. It’s fun to experiment with drawings & photos. I wish I could have spent more time doing it!
I prefer the original. Dark street, bright sky combo works for me 🙂
I also like the photo better, but I enjoy trying out new things with my fancy pen.
It’s a really interesting technique – I could see whole comic books made this way.
My colleague mentioned a movie with Keanu Reeves called A Scanner Darkly that’s animated in a similar style. I haven’t seen it, but apparently it’s supposed to be a good film.
I doubt that I’ll ever make any comic books, but I’m currently working on an illustration of The Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland.
I like the tram lines in digital drawing, but it is what always pisses me off in photos… not that it matters much in this one.
They can piss me off in photos too, but in this one they add extra to the lines in the photo.
I agree … 🙂
Very interesting, thanks for adding the original so we could see where you were coming from – the digital interpretation adds an extra element of depth.
I’m not satisfied with the final digital result, but I’m still learning by trying my digital pen.
Beautiful Transformation my friend 🙂
Thanks Jake and thanks for stopping by 🙂