Clock sketches

For my clock sketches I really wanted to take influence from architecture. The first two designs I liked but I felt like they would either be too large in the case of the circular one, or too simple in the case of the orange one. In the end I decided to go with the blue design because I felt it had an interesting design and reflected my theme well.

In the initial sketch I felt that the clock was a little flat looking, and I wanted to give it a sense of age and abandonment. First I went through with a clipping mask and multiply layer and added some shading with a dirty brown colour to the right side of the clock. I then went back with a Hard light layer and added a sense of a light source on the left side of the clock, then blended that in to the background.  I still felt it looked a bit flat, so I created a texture layer using a royalty/credit free image on a screen layer.