A great piece of #penandink #natureart by Osman Mansaray (@os.mansaray) of a modest but comfortable looking cabin, constructed in a forest clearing amongst some towering trees, beyond which dwells a quiet darkness that is oddly more inviting than you might expect an inky blackness could be. Osman included a number of wonderful details and elements that make this illustration particularly interesting. Rather than draw some more realistic smoke wafting from the chimney, Osman depicted some fluffy, puffy, stippling-shaded smoke billowing from the chimney, which like someone’s fanciful dream of a smokey fireplace might have escaped their subconscious. Also, there’s the simple cabin design and the single set of footprints that makes you wonder who might be dwelling in there. I find it interesting how the dark depths of the forest are “painted” black, while the night sky is white with black points of stars. I did not question this at first, which makes me thing that it is unnecessary to always show a starry night as only existing in a realm of darkness. Osman uses light and dark to great effect in this piece, creating a distinct comfortable foreground, a distant background, and a middle ground that seems to stretch much farther than would normally seem possible on a two-dimensional sheet of paper. The things that sets this drawing apart from other of a similar style, though, are the trees and how Osman used a skewed single-point perspective to make them appear as though the trees are much taller than the clearing they surround. Those trees create the comfortable clearing, and act as a border between the foreground and middle ground, allowing the rest of the scene to stretch into the infinite starry nighttime beyond. Wonderful piece, Osman. :::::: #nature #architecturealdesign #archtiecturedrawing #cabininthewoods #cabin #blackwork #iblackworks #adventuring #hiking #greatoutdoors #pendrawing #ink #inkdrawing #blackandwhite #perspective #redwoods #nighttime #smoke #footprints #straytogether #stippling #dotwork #osmansaray [Original Post: https://www.instagram.com/p/BZjf_kkHUng/; Artist: @os.mansaray]
