Monday, April 27, 2009

Sketching around Croydon




We were given one hour to stroll around east/west Croydon sketching buildings with different dry mediums from different angles; i used graphite and ended up with it all over my hands. Finding interesting/detailed buildings was relatively hard, but drawing them was easy; but we had random strangers staring at our sketch books annoying us, but i think that that's because we were sitting in the middle of the path; people kept walking in front of me so i couldn't’t see what i was drawing. I tried to do some fine detailed sketches, but because of the random people, that was a bit hard, as well as quick rough images. I found that the people living the area weren’t too pleased with us standing in the middle of the street drawing; but we still stayed drawing my buildings.
Afterwards we went back to the shop and we were asked to use the space, shapes, colours and textures of the shop to draw one of our sketches, making them become a part of the space in 3D. I chose to use charcoal on one of the insets of the wall. I expanded my drawing so that i could draw my side buildings on the wall panels, this made it look like it ad two layers. I like how it came out looking long and distorted.

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