Hi everyone,

I've kind of been into drawing buildings this time, and I tried to make an haussmannian building (my previous building).



It feels great to me, I like my shapes and colors, but it feels quite empty. Especially the middle level.

It's a feature of hausmanniann buildings to be quite uniform, but I'd like to add some exciting details to make it more lively.

My previous building felt less empty because it was not as much based on reality as this one.

What would you add ?

I'm interested in any other constructive criticism :)

Try it with a neutral grey overcast background, and put it between two similar buildings. You may find it looks wonderful.

I quite like it, by the way.

I'll try adding some flowers, but I'm not sure it's going to blend well with the feeling of the building. I'll post and edited version so you can tell me what you think about it.

Adding a car is a great idea, I'll try that tonight :)

Thanks.

EDIT:Here's the edited version

I'm not quite satisfied with this car's design. It feels too curvy compared to the rectangular shapes of the buildings. I'm not sur it fits the style of the rest of the piece.

Do you think I should keep a side-view or maybe make the road 3/4 perspective so the car is not floating on the sidewalk like it is right now ?

Oh look the weather is changing



Park the car on the other side of the street before the police drives by and gives you a ticket

The new clouds are much better and makes the scene more interesting. Nice job on that

The car looks nice facing forward but now everything faces forward. Both look ok really.

The thing that sticks out to me is the scale of the car, stop sign to building.
If a person is roughly the height of the doors on floors 2,3 and 4 then the stop sign is too short.
A person of that height would not fit in the car.
If a person driving the car saw that stop sign it would block all sight because its so big.
Maybe both the car and the sign need to be scaled in better.

Oh yeah the scale is better than it looked to be...nvm :)

Updated the post sign height, and added some grass on certain windows. It does feel more lively.



@MrHai: You were right for the clouds (and the flowers on the balcony). They were too distracting, while these ones are more realistic and blend way better with rest of the piece.

@Jalonso: You were still right concerning the stop sign :)

I'm not sure I understand which parts of the clouds are messing with the rest. Do you mean the whitest color of the clouds is messing with the dark blue of the building balcony ?

Ok, think I found out what you were talking about. I made the clouds quite fast and didn't really clean up my shapes.

Here's the cleaned up version. I might have smoothed it too much though.