Today’s challenge: a French town square.

I was thinking of what to draw when the town square came to mind, because I was speaking what little French I know to myself as a bit of a game. I dismissed it right away, then failing to come up with anything else I wanted to try, revisited it. I thought, I’ll only draw a bunch of box buildings and some cafe tables. It’ll be boring and useless. Well, I thought again, I have a phone that can lookup pictures of anything. So I’m on the train with some lovely reference photos. Let’s see what comes of it.

Here’s the sketch from the train.

Here’s the photo I used as reference.

Final image at the top of the post. I took a picture after color and before laying some detailed lines down, but I accidentally deleted it while clearing out other bad snaps.