Week 4 Study - Drawing scenes with lots of information

For week four, we actually went on the roof of the Chesham building to learn how to draw scenes in the distance with lots of information to put down. I learnt that it was much better to put down an impression of the scene I was drawing to fool the eye rather than actually try to add all the detail as there was simply to much for me to finish the drawing at an efficient pace. The speed of which I work is one of the main areas I feel I need to improve, and I feel that I am slightly improving in this area. The images below in the first scan I completed in half an hour each. I still think I need to speed up a lot more when drawing but I am pleased with the progress I have made. With all the images I used charcoal and then white pastel to pick out some highlights and I feel this has improved the overall quality of the pictures as they give a good impression of the form of the objects.  

 

The second image I spent around 45 minutes on this piece and I am pleased with how it turned out, especially the composition (except the distracting fence at the front of the image) and the perspective. All the lines in the picture that should converge to the vanishing point do so, although the window on the nearest building is slightly off. The perspective is correct except for the gate at the front. To give the impression of a brick texture I put down a couple of sections of brick rather than filling the whole building. I should maybe have picked a slightly more detailed scene so that I would be able to apply the techniques a bit more when representing complicated information in an image.