Working outdoors is on a completely different level than studio drawing. Not just the weather, preparation and organisation, but simply choosing a view and deciding how much of that view to include is all part of the challenge to capture the essence of an expanse. Nature can be complicated and detailed at first sight but …
Assignment 3.
Detail of final piece. Ecoline ink and biro. Draw an outdoor scene that includes natural objects, an understanding of depth and perspective, and keep it to around 2 hours to complete. This was an interesting assignment to complete because I set myself a couple of goals and stuck to them to see what the results …
Pt 3, Pr 5, Ex 4 – Statues
'The Thinker' Auguste Rodin. Pictured personally in the Vatican but unsure of date as many copies were made of this sculpture and unsure if the original. (Believe it maybe) Bronze cast, approx 72 x 30 x 58 cm Something I realized when looking at and copying statues was the fact that they are still. This …
Pt 3, Pr 5, Ex3- A limited Palette Study
I was pleased to use the view that I sketched in the previous exercise of the skyline over Manchester from across the Irwell river. In this scene I was able to capture all sorts of contrasting textures as the old cathedral and remains of what looked like a castle met the solid steel of the …
Pt 3,Pr 5, Ex 2 – Study of a Townscape using Line.
For this exercise I ventured out to the river Irwell on the outskirts of town, bordering with Salford. On the opposite side of the river, it gave me a nice view of the old town of Manchester, a drop into a pass of the Irwell river and a background of the contemporary buildings of the …
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Pt 3, Pr 5, Ex 1 – Sketchbook of Townscape Drawings
Walking through town, immersed in the buildings, the stone, the steel, the urban sprawl, I became attracted to the idea of urban decay. What a population can erect, will, if not maintained, become victim to the elements. I like this idea, so while I was venturing around town I dropped off from the main streets …
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Pt 3,Pr 4, Ex 3 – Atmospheric pressure.
Deciding to start out with simple black and grey tones to explore the idea of atmospheric perspective and tonal gradation, I began with ink and a few pictures I took, a misty morning at the local shops and a few snow scenes I took in Bruges, Belgium. The snow in the air clouded the buildings …
Pt 3,Pr 4, Ex 2 – Angular perspective
This was an exercise to see how accurate my guess work was when it came to estimating perspective. A simple task to use all the reference points I could to construct a building without drawing in the vanishing points or perspective lines until after the drawing was finished. I chose a simple three story building …
Pt 3, Pr 4, Ex, 1 – Parallel Perspective
Not necessarily an interior, however, it was an enclosed walkway that had some nice arches running down one side that all met in the middle to create another set of archways running down through the passage way forming a perfect scene to show one point perspective. With the added brick work and the large stone …
Pt 3, Pr 3, Ex 2 – Foreground, middle ground, Background.
Engaging the viewer into a picture is what I feel, an important faculty of a successful composition. One way to do this is to define the foreground, middle ground and the background as separate planes, each consisting of a different rendering of focus, texture and detail. To draw the view into the picture is to …
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