Journey from Imperial Gardens

The intention was to draw route from the Imperial Gardens to Francis Close Hall Campus, I only managed to make it as far as the promenade. My first attempts were very close up views, they didn't give much sense of scale or space and would be useless for illustrating any kind of journey. I had a few more attempts at drawing the gardens until I was happy that I was capturing a broad enough view of the space and then continued this toward the Promenade.In doing so I tried a new technique of drawing in light grey pen before black, this gave me a better control over tone and makes early mistakes less noticeable next to the corrected black pen lines, although it's probably not very useful for drawing very quick, as when drawing moving figures. The main problem I can see with these is the lack of any figures in context, I attempted a few but at that scale and with all the pen lines they promptly got lost and are hard to make out even when you know where they are, I could try using a different colour next time as even a simple stick figure shape could help to show the scale.

Birmingham Museum

I sketched a few interesting things around Birmingham Museum, unfortunately I wasn't very focused that day and I didn't get a lot done and the sketches I have aren't amongst my best. There was little purpose to what I was drawing and I regret at not trying to stick to my previous plan of drawing people and then the objects they were looking at; the objects could have also been given more context and drawing the space they were in could have been more useful both as practice and reference.

Hannah Poses

Some drawings of Hannah, the purpose was to draw each other posed to show certain emotions, unfortunately due to trouble figuring out poses and slow drawing speeds there's not much here.
Even worse, the pieces that I drew using these has gone missing, I will upload it here as soon as I find it. The sketches were useful for their purpose and this exercise could do with being repeated with a wider range of emotions and expressions.

Tower Studies

 The tower is a very interesting place to draw, it has a lot of different materials in it's construction and there are newer additions to the original, gothic styled structure. Due to the interesting space and range of elements I can look at I've decided to do a few studies of the tower, with the intention of having a resource for future illustrations. I started with a floor plan of the tower and then experimenting with looking from different angles and distances as well as getting an accurate drawing of the space. I also had a look at the additions to the building like pipes, wires, electrical boxes and other things that are out of place with the rest of the old building, I think these are useful to draw as while they aren't typically noticed their absence would be noticeable.

Mystery in the Tower

 The intentions was to draw a sequence showing mystery, I drew a figure moving through a space, up the stairs of the tower at FCH. I chose viewpoints that suggested the viewer was moving away from the figure whilst trying to keep him in sight, I then pulled the view back to show the figure that was moving away. I think it's effective making you wonder who the figure is and who's behind the viewpoint, unfortunately the effect is diminished by how messy the drawings are, especially the shading which is a bit slapdash and doesn't properly convey where the dark tones are.

St Fagans Drawings

 Some sketches form St Fagans trip, there was no particular intention to these images, I was mainly looking for things that I might like to use as the basis for other illustrations. The blacksmith was particularly interesting to draw, although difficult due to the movement, I plan to go back and draw here again, perhaps do a wider view drawing of the workshop and some more detailed drawings of the blacksmith.

Moving Through a Space

 Looking at moving through the courtyard and into the library, still a few zoomed in views but some are an improvement. Spent some time on detail work, which is something I usually avoid, it has a good effect and will be a necessity for and finished drawings I attempt but I think I need to focus more on the composition of the piece and placement of figures and objects. I'm also keeping up the note taking, which is very useful for refining my images.