Exercise One- Sketchbook townscape drawings

For this exercise we were asked to look for an interesting building or lot of buildings on a side angle to get an interesting view point to further onto sketches. For this we were asked to pick spots we were most interested in and to focus mainly onto those spots in a small quick sketch, we were told to be selective on the parts we wanted to focus on.

Due to the recent circumstance of COVID-19 I wasn’t able to get out and about the house the same and look around towns to take sketches, I don’t like to go out of the house when it’s not necessary or for work. With this in mind and with a lot of these exercises it has really paid off with my hobby of photography! I have used pictures I took previously from a little holiday in Spain. Whilst on this holiday there were many fantastic and interesting buildings and I took lots of detailed pictures. Below are my sketches from my pictures and I am happy with how the sketches look:

Here is a close up sketch of the panels covering the roofing, it is an interesting piece of the building and I felt I had to capture a sketch of this to use.

I do love how this building looks, I found the curved architecture so fascinating and it created for such an interesting sketch, I do think the angles on each of these sketches are fairly accurate and I am happy with the look of this. On this sketch I have marked my eye level to this sketch (best I could considering it was a picture) I do think it could be a disadvantage for it being a photograph yet I do think I got a fairly accurate sketch.

In this image I captured the side of the building and the building is actually a restaurant which is so fascinating for such a detailed building yet I wanted to get in the arches and also again the roofing.

This was a front on angle of the building from the curved front, I do think this is accurate in terms of the angles yet I do think the windows could’ve been better if it wasn’t a quick sketch. All in all I am happy with all of these sketches and I think they give an accurate representation of the building. I enjoyed looking at the building for the most interesting parts and figuring out the right angles to get these results. I do think I would like to look further into getting better with angles and how to show buildings better I haven’t really ever been interested into drawing architecture but this whole assignment has opened my eyes to different ideas.