You might already recognize that this exercise that should not have taken more than two evenings turned out to be a bigger time-consuming project. But since it helps me very much with getting used to the tools I was able to learn in the last week, I want to give it a shot, creating something a little more interesting. Currently there are three different types of vehicles. - A few more will be added later. As you can see in the image below, I experimented around with shadows, lighting and textures to create a more vivid and sculptural look (left picture). The difference is clearly visible, specially if you focus on the trees and the street barriers which are still untouched. The bridge is in the same condition as yesterday (right picture). Tomorrow I want to apply the new style on the rest of the illustration.
Using the effect of shadows, lighting and patterns (as textures), the illustration looses a little bit of its cartoonish look. The difference is clearly visible if you compare both pictures to each other. However, this process is more time-consuming than I thought in the beginning.