WIP- St. Basil's Cathedral etch a sketch

I haven't had much spare time lately. I'm in my senior year at college, going full-time. I'm working on my dA creative grant project. And I'm working on a pretty big commission.

Regretfully, because of these things, I haven't had as much time for recreational etching.

This is a project I picked up about 2 months ago, but haven't touched since a little after school started. I'm about 4 hours into this--I still have a long way to go. It's exciting to see how the basic layout looks, but there are already certain things I wish I spent more time planning out and more carefully etching.

The photo I used for reference is being used by permission from . Here it is:


St. Basil's cathedral is a Russian icon, and I grew up admiring a pixelated version on my Nintendo while playing Tetris. I wanted to pursue this as my next big project because I don't often use the classic size etch a sketch, and I have been yearning to explore more architecture on this media. It's a challenge to match the technical precision that architecture offers on an etch a sketch. I find myself working a lot slower than I usually do so I can match the curves and diagonals to the original image.

Sorry for the low quality image--I took a photo of it a while ago and it was on my desk at night. That's the keyboard to my laptop underneath the etch a sketch.

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