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.

Week 3 Study - High/low contrast in images

We were asked this week to use two different mediums to produce two images of the same scene, one with high contrast and one with low contrast. I did two scenes but this one turned out slightly better in my opinion, even if the scene itself was quite simple. For low contrast I used charcoal and for the high contrast I used markers, but I ended up with mixed results on how much contast was present in both images. :S

Week 2 Study - Landscapes

This week in observational drawing we studied landscapes, epecially the perspective of landscapes.

 These drawings completed for directed study are the same landscape drawn in different sizes. They were done using a combination of 4B, 5B and 6B pencils. The drawing which I felt easiest to complete was the A4 drawing (the largest drawing on this page) becuase I was able to add detail efficiently in pencil. The scene became slightly easier to draw with each drawing. This meant that slowly sizing up the scene was a good method to use for planning out larger scale drawings as I became more aware with how the later images would look on the page. I feel as though I spent too much time trying to add detail to the smaller images as they were only meant to be a guide for the larger pictures.

I feel that the perspective of the image is mainly correct, but is a little bit wrong on the arched windows. they should be getting smaller towards the vanishing point but they are not as straight as they should be, especially the glass panels. However, the two square sections of the building look correct and turned out how I wanted to on the largest image.

Observational Drawing

Well this is the first post of this blog, where I will be uploading scans of my observational drawing work. Stay tuned for the first pictures which I will be uploading soon.