#memmingen

For the last day of Inktober, I wanted to make something a little more colourful! Yes, I did have a little colour here and there already, but this one was always planned as a coloured illustration. And, since the prompt is landmark, I've decided to draw a rather new landmark of my own little German town!

I could've chosen something a little more landmark-y like our town wall, but I still remember the day I found out about the "bunte Häuser" (=colourful houses). Two tourists had read about it in the newspaper and asked me where this was (yes, that "very new" of a landmark) and I did not know what the hell they were talking about because I don't get our town's newspaper. I couldn't help them, but now I know what these are, where these are and what they mean - and I have a funny experience to look back on.

Anyway, here's the process: