Boardwalk Nights part 16

Today's task was to finish off all the figures on the boardwalk. What's tricky here is that this is a night scene, and most of the figures should be at least partly in shadow. Drawing shadows is easy if you have the subject right in front of you. It's not quite as easy if you are inventing the subjects, the setting, and the lighting. So I'm doing a lot of educated guessing. And while I could have just cut out everything completely and dealt with shadows in the coloring, I had made the decision that I'd like to get a lot of it with black ink. My Labor Day night time observations demonstrated how heavy the shadows can be on a dark boardwalk. I cut the girl to the right first (see above), then the police officer on the far left and those things around him (bike, couple/bench, woman with stroller). After that the distant figures by the restroom, and the cluster of larger figures in the middle. Two hours later I was done. I took a rubbing of the whole thing to see if I missed anything (just minor stuff) and to check the value balance. The whole block in its current state can be seen below.

There are still a few minor things to deal with- details revealed by the rubbing, some items on the cop's uniform, and I'll give myself until the next time in the Studio to decide what I'm going to do about the dark spot on the Don's Pizza overhang. But those things will take minutes to cut, and I should be ready to print right after that.