Boardwalk Bar part 6

 Not a whole lot of changes since last time.  I updated a few faces and bodies.  Added some bottles to the area under the counter of the bar.  Made smaller holes in the chain link fence at the far back.  What I was doing mostly was darkening with pencil all the areas that are as of now, black (things can change).  This is part of deciding if the value is balanced or not. I will also be coloring this print, and colors all have some value and can be used to balance the print values.  My original photos were all taken at night, so the rooms tend to be dark.  This print will take place during the day, so there will be more light and more color than the original photos.  All part of the fun.  Results from today can be seen below:

I think I'm about done with the drawing phase, so I plan to start cutting it soon.  What remains is some things in the deep background, and I may make some more changes there before I cut that section.  I'll start with the margins/borders first, and those are all decided.  As I cut, I'll have to decide what gets cut and what is left alone, to become black.  But like I said, I'll figure it as I go.

For music today, two more label produced Beatles albums from the alphabetical section of my box from storage.  Not something that I had in the Studio previously, though I could have fit them both on a single blank disc.  What I brought with me was With the Beatles and A Hard Day's Night.  As with all official discs, these are based on the original British albums, but that doesn't bother me.  With the Beatles was the first Beatles album I owned, probably one of the first records I had.  I had it on vinyl, a gift from my cousin Todd, who I believe had gotten it from a girl he had dated, so it was a regift.  Maybe he was trying to forget the girl. or maybe it just duplicated songs he had on Meet the Beatles and The Beatles Second Album, two popular record albums created for the American market, and widely available in those days.  Of note, the copy I had of With the Beatles was a German import, with lots of text printed on it that I still don't understand.  (I know some art German, such as the word for woodcut is "holzschnitt" and the American Flagg comic book character Titania Weiss got her name from the German words for the paint color Titanium White)  That does mean that it has the intro to the song "All My Loving" only found in German pressings of the song.  As for A Hard Day's Night, its history is even stranger.  The British release was the Beatles' third album, with 7 songs from the film and 6 more for the second side of the record.  In America, the soundtrack was put out by United Artists (who had their own record label) with the 7 songs from the film and the rest of the album taken up by George Martin instrumentals from the film.  Capitol Records owned the Beatles rights in America, and put most of the same songs on the Something New album and issued the rest of the songs as singles, and scattered across such American record albums as The Beatles Second Album, Beatles '65, and the 1970 release Hey Jude.  No wonder the compact discs just follow the original British releases.  Of course, very good music to work by.