Assignment 3 I was originally tempted to draw a view of the countryside with a gradual perspective off into rolling hills in the distance, however, I also found myself drawn to an old railway line, which is a 15-minute walk from my home. The abandoned train track is used by Read more…
Where I live there is one statue and that was only erected last year! I had made a couple of quick sketches whilst passing this at the end of last month. I was present by accident the date this memorial statue by Martin Jennings, whose own father was treated by Read more…
I started off a horizontal line at my ‘eye-line’ which happened to be the vanishing point of the path into the distant view. Once I drew the horizontal line I continued to lightly sketch the vertical and diagonal lines to find the perspective of the buildings with the stone path Read more…
Thinking about this exercise and townscapes I took the opportunity on a day out to Tate Modern to sketch from inside the Tanks looking out to the magnificent view. Initially, I made a couple of A4 sketches using 8B pencil and also one small A5 view from the café window Read more…
I have realised during this particular module that I am fine when out and about drawing people and to a lesser extent landscapes but drawing buildings of any kind is a challenge for me. I find it a struggle to get details such as the bricks and I walk around Read more…
I initially sat upstairs in my house and sketched the view from the window using watercolours and soft B pencil. I chose this because I can see a partial view of the distant fields and trees on the horizon and thought this was a good starting point for this exercise. Read more…
I walked around town and chose to draw quick sketches of a few different types of buildings, first an old stone building and a cinema. I used a soft B pencil for the stone sketch and a HB graphite pencil for the cinema receding around the corner. I found it Read more…
This is the first time I have used perspective lines in my drawings so after reading the notes about perspective I chose a doorway and checked the angles and foreshortening before continuing with this exercise. I drew freehand and from the image of the doorway extended the lines to be Read more…
At the start of May I took a short break to Cala Pi in Mallorca and made a rough drawing of the lovely bay there and took some photos too. I hadn’t decided this would be the subject for exercise 2, Foreground, middle-ground and background but due to unforeseen circumstances Read more…
I decided to continue with the forest as I had enjoyed the previous exercise of the 15 minute sketches. I made two initial sketches in my A4 sketchpad using 8b pencil just to try out a couple of compositions. With not much time I took the opportunity to draw these using Read more…