Composition

This is a study looking at interesting compositions for an interior landscape. This was intended to be a quick speed-drawing exercise, however I think I spent too much time on the two panels on the left of the page concentrating on making sure I had a range of values to give the panels more depth. 

I spent less time on the panels on the right of the page, even though they were drawn quickly, both of these panels use perspective to create an interesting composition as well as bring depth to the image. In future for exercises similar to this, I think I should spend less time being finicky and work at a quicker pace to get more thumbnails drawn in the same space of time.

Perspective

This is a two hour pencil study looking at perspective on a building. I chose a vantage point that showed the corner of a building, and also another building in the background, which allowed me to use two-point perspective to show depth. 

One of the flaws with this sketch, is that the scale I drew the buildings to meant that my vanishing point was outside of the page. Whilst I tried to make sure my lines were accurate, this was hard with no definitive marks of where the vanishing points were, so I also used the building in the background to work out roughly what angle my lines needed to be at.

Although this drawing was meant to show perspective, I also tried to demonstrate light and shade. Whilst I am pleased with the results, I don't feel I managed to accurately portray it as the sun kept going behind clouds. This meant the areas of shadow and light kept changing sporadically.

Basic Marks

These are a collection of images for practising drawing basic marks and lighting and shade in pencil. My basic mark page shows my attempts at drawing using different angled lines in squares. I found this particularly challenging with diagonal lines as I found it hard to judge where each line would need to start and finish to keep the square shape.

My lighting and shade practise was more successful and I managed to show a range of values through varying the pressure on the pencil and apply these values to a spherical shape in a realistic way. 

This is a quick pencil sketch to practise drawing objects in proportion relative to each other. This was successful as I managed to demonstrate the scale of the box in relation to the table whilst keeping it in perspective. I also tried to show the shadow cast by the object; I feel this would have been more successful had I shaded this to show it was supposed to be a shadow cast by the object.

Whilst my object is proportionally correct, I ended up drawing the table at an angle on the paper and this is made more obvious by the scan also being at a slight angle. In future I need to pay more attention to the angle of my lines that are meant to be at a 90 degree angle in relation to the edge of the paper for better judgement.