week seven Pittville pump room

This week what we had to do was go to Pittville Pump room to draw observational drawings of it from different angles and distance. This is a task that I found interesting because I want to understand the basic concept of building. I was taking the information that I used for the Oxford trip to help improve these drawings such as getting the right proportions size and to use the grid that was given to use in the task sheet and the same grids used with the cars.

Pittville Pump room from the right hand side, close up. material: Brush pen 

Pittville Pump room from inside the right hand side. Material: Pencil

Pittville pump room from the front, close up. Material: Brush pen  

Pittville pump room from the left hand side from the inside. Material: Pencil

Pittville pump room front drawn from a distance. Material: Brush pen

When I completed the observational drawings, I then had to recreated from the sketches that I did and create detailed illustrations from them. I liked the concept of this task because I had to use my memory as my drawings tool and using my own quick drawings as reference. This task is helping me improve my memory skills and observational drawing skills.

  

Materials: Ink, pencil and fine liner.

This is the final outcome of my memory sketch. with the overall design I went with sections of the building that were eye catching to me and to use bright colours, so that it stands out.

With the first part I want to focus on is the statue. The statue is from the front of the building, I decide to go for this section because of the detail of the statue. I used the black ink instead of coloured in because I wanted to help improve myself on my shading with just using one material. I think this overall is good but I could of done better, for example I think I should start using water with the ink so that I get weak wash of black so that it looks balanced.  So next time in my sketches I should use water and inks instead of just ink. But I did use the information from previous weeks which was taking my time with a piece but next time improve the material method.

The next part that I want to focus on is the window next to the statue. This one was again a close up of a section of the building that I found interesting. I decide to draw this so that I could practice using colours will given a reflecting effect. I think I got this effect by give white gaps in the window but I could of improved this by using water to get a wash of ink instead of a bold blue which makes it look unrealistic when the sky was a light shade of blue. I also did the same technique on the top of Pittville pump room, expect I used a green ink. But this one I used fine liner pen for the extra detail which I would use more because I describes the object will not distracting you from the colour. with the overall design I was pleased with it because I took my time with it which is something that I should do more when creating my illustrations. The next  drawing is done in pencil which is the one on the middle of page which is a focus of the top of pillars of Pittville pump room, I decided to go with pencil so that I could practice more with material and to understand how to do basic shading with pencil. I think that I have got the basic concept of shading but I need to improve this in next sketches so that I can improve and to gain more of a understand of natural shading.  The final sketch on the bottom right hand corner is a full front redesign of Pittville pump room. This is sketch that I took my time with and it looks neat and tidy because I took my time. But my only problem with this sketch is that it is not straight. With this I could of used a ruler to get a straight line outcome. So next time I need to use a ruler to get a straight line.

Overall this task was interesting because it showed me what it's like to understand the architecture of building and I got to use my previous advice from my trip to Oxford and with the cars. Because I used the grid from the cars and I used the stages where I uses a rough sketch then outline it on top. But now I have new advice to give myself when creating my next stages.  When creating my ink sketches uses a water brush so that I get a wash of ink so that I get a basic shading.