Drawing the figure is one thing, under a time limit is another skill, but, drawing a moving scene is another skill set in itself. I headed out into the city centre to see if I could capture the hustle and bustle of Manchester prime.....to be fair though I turned up on an early Saturday morning …
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 …
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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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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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 …
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 …
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