Gabe Riggs

I keep forgetting to post things here so here are some stuff from the midterm and a section from what I've started since then.

Here is a picture of this one finished.

The tube one, from around midterm. I still have to finish the WWII underground station but I think that's all I'm going to do (and I've done more than is pictured here).

And here is a pic from last week of the one I've started. I've done more than this but not enough to quite justify another pic. :P This is for my piece on Paris. So far I'm just doing one Paris drawing, although there are some things I can't fit into one so I may do another one- we'll see, I'd rather do more London ones. This in particular is a giant elephant that actually used to exist in Paris. It was supposed to be made of marble in the place where the Bastille had been during Napoleon's rule, but he was impatient and had one made of plaster as a placeholder. The real one never got built, and the plaster one stayed there for a long time- until the 1850s. The elephant in Paris has always been fascinating to me because I noticed basically my whole life that often things that were set in historical Paris would reference an elephant, and I wondered if it actually existed, so I was super excited when I found out that it did! 

For the rest of Paris piece, I am going to have a few different things. The elephant is in the right front, and behind it I think I'm going to have Père Lachaise, which is a famous cemetery in Paris. (It's where Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison are buried, among others.) I may include Oscar Wilde's grave or just a reference to him (which would be peacock feathers probably, if only because basically all my bajillion copies of Dorian Gray have them on the cover). On the left top I have Sacré-Cœur started and I will have some sort of windy street thing to be Montmarte. In the bottom left/centre I'm going to have the green house shops that were by Notre-Dame because one of my best memories from Paris is when I bought a little ceramic hedgehog from probably the nicest French guy on earth.