Many blessings to all my fellow artists who are reading this and looking at my drawings. Today I'm going to show you the drawing I made of a preamplifier, the one featured on the E176 RSM Pre Amp card. As you can see, it's a beautiful epic card, with a lovely design in orange and purple. I'll be using both of those colors in my drawing, for both the background and the frame. You already saw a preview on the cover, but in this post you'll see the entire drawing process.
By the way, if you're not familiar with it, a preamplifier is what raises weak signals, like those from a microphone or a turntable, to a level suitable for processing by a main amplifier or a recording system, like the ones I've drawn for you in the past. It's a somewhat technical device, so I hope that brief explanation has been helpful. In any case, I think it would be good if you're curious to do some more research. It's always fun to learn how music is made with these devices. Okay, to start the drawing, I first made the inner frame of the card.
After doing that, I drew a rectangle in the middle of the sketch. This rectangle has slanted sides to create the effect of it being larger towards the back. In the next step, I added a line down the middle of the rectangle. This creates a 3D effect, making it clear that there's a front and back. I think I achieved the effect I was looking for.
With the sketch ready, I started painting. I used orange, as I mentioned before, for the entire background; that color turned out very nice. For the inner frame, I used purple, which is the same color as the squares in the original card design. The inner background, as usual, is blue in various shades. And the preamp is a combination of orange and gray. In the last step, I added the dials, buttons, and the inputs and outputs of the devices.
And to say goodbye for today, here's the final result. See you in the next drawing.
