Marquis About Town

Some more quick sketches done for the upcoming "Marquis and the Midwife" graphic novel showing a few background settings to the streets of Venisalle. I've always thought that the setting of a story is as important as the characters themselves, and I've tried to make the streets that the Marquis haunts as much of a character as any in the book. For these sketches, the focus was more on mood and composition with the surface details of the baroque architecture tightened up and filled in when redrawn for the finished page.