Layout practice?

 

Morning, tigers!
gotcha, tigers are nocturnal.

Don't believe that either, they're crepuscular. Thanks internet, now I know.


Last week I thought I'd sit down and draw abandoned buildings for layout design ideas because it's not something I generally do. The first things usually to appear on a blank piece of paper in front of me are eyes, and if houses have eyes then it provokes an architectural questioning of logic and maybe design.
I'm trying to break that habit though and focus on creating something that means more than 'Look at this eye, its so pretty lets draw another one that looks like it, oh look its ruined now -lets draw another one', thus doodling eyes are left for high school text books/tables/chairs.
More serious stuff. Or more fun?

I was wondering if how when we draw characters we borrow from our own surroundings (friends faces, our own faces,etc) if we do that for layouts, perhaps borrow the prominent colours in our lives or the perspective we see things in the most?
All I know is I'm seeing a lot of fire in my work haha.

 

(skip stuff after picture to escape rambling)

When it got started its really catchy, something you can keep doing without being aware of time.
So this one I put in photoshop to play with and after a while I felt the urge to have it more personal, and while usually I don't name things or characters I draw, I'm going to call this one "home".
A small explanation might be that I've been asked this question a lot "where's home for you", and lately I don't know how to respond, because as a place, a building, nothing really feels emotionally connected enough. My family and I are travelers, and that instability of settlement probably taught me "home" as a place isn't really a requirement.
But I've lived in different buildings, gone to many schools and those buildings contain memories that are precious (not to mention, food), so I'm going to call that home instead.
So the house with no certain ground is burning, and the smoke gathers up the memories and my "home" lives around the house that burns forever maybe. ..Is that really a small explanation?
Well, things like this are hard to compress.

Peace!