Lego - Drawing Around

Using the idea of making something using lego block illustrations and then drawing around them to show more detail for what it is supposed to be, I've decided to give it a go with actual things someone would maybe make out of Lego.

First thing I thought of was a tree.

Hmm. Works well with this. Next I tried out a car. Keeping in mind the idea with the messy lines as pointed out previously.

Looking at the lines without the lego blocks behind is interesting ha.

I think this is working pretty well and might be on to something with it. Decided to experiment further with the car one (because that's a bit more interesting than the tree one). Tried out a coloured background - decided to use a slight gradient with this to add a bit more effect to it.

Looks alright actually on the coloured background. Not sure if the black lines are working though. Hmm. Decided to try them white and also played a bit with the opacity of them too. I just don't want to distract too far from the fact the thing is actually made to look like it is made from lego.

Decided to try the lines out in a colour, tried a few and found the yellow works quite nice with this. Stands out a bit better than the black and white ones do.

Had a thought to see how it might work having the lines, and then just parts of the lego car in the background instead of the full thing to maybe suggest it being built? Also tried with just the lines and no lego things that works quite nice too. Think I do need to have a bit more reference to lego than that though.

When I was doing this I had a thought to maybe just have certain aspects of the car? Like just wheels or what ever. I tried this out.

I think this has an interesting effect to it actually. Tried it with each individual ones just there as well with the lines.

And again, but this time without the lines and just the different aspects of the car. For this to work I reckon it might need to be part of a set some how.

Again just the different aspects, this time with the lines that also just go round the different aspects.

Having the lego sections for certain aspects, and then the lines for the aspects that are missing...

I like these. Moving on from the car now, decided to have a go at doing a house - used to love building houses out of lego when I was younger.

Ended up with this (above). Not sure if I am being too precise with it? Decided to experiment with the colours of it make it seem a bit more realistic to it actually been done by lego?

 

Not really feeling the house one as much as the car one. Time to move on I reckon. Decided to try a dinosaur/dragon thing.

Quite like this one actually. Again tried it on the background and what not, and this time quickly looked how this sort of thing works along with having the logo. Nothings decided yet or anything but thought I would see.

I'm quite liking these actually. The car and dragon thing works better than the house - so simpler ones work better, something to keep in mind. I really need to start making some decisions with this and figure out exactly what I want to achieve, then I can figure out if these are actually useful for that or not.