Week 3 - Landscape (The Atrium)

Exterior of the Atrium, One

The idea for this session was to use different media use to get you out of your comfort zone. For this drawing I used the graphite pens to create the tonal values within the image and a biro to create the outline of the drawing.

A build up of lines were used in this image to create depth to the outline of the buildings. Building up layers of lines rather than just one single line adds to the shading in this drawing and also helps get the lines in the correct places.

The darker shaded marker pens have to been used to create the shadows upon the building, which has then been blended into the lighter shaded marker pens to create a shadowing effect.

These marker pens work well with architectural drawings because creating big bolds blocks of colour is a lot easier and quicker than if you were to use a pencil that has a very tiny nib on the end.

Exterior of the Atrium, Two

This is another drawing using the graphite pens from a different perspective view. Using the darkest graphite pen I was able to pick out the darkest shadowing which then blend in very nicely to the lighter tonal shades.

The graphite pens work really well for this architectural drawing because the markers stand out really well with the bold outlines and blocks of shapes and blending the different shades together like in this image makes a really good 3 dimensional picture.

Adding more detail and adding in the surrounding buildings would have really finished this drawing of. However, with this simple drawing it makes the building really stand out from the white background.

Exterior of the Atrium, Three

This is a drawing using a variety of soft pastel colours on a yellow sugar paper background. This drawing has a lot of colour especially with the use of the coloured background it leaves no empty spaces.

This is a very lose drawing and is a quick interpretation of what was seen. The shading of these pastels work really well upon the atrium roof where white pastel has been used to pick out the highlighted areas created by the sun. A very dark grey has also been used to pick out the darker shaded areas. This creates a great contract from the white to the grey and has a great tonal value.

This drawing could be greatly improved with greater detail to make this drawing really stand out. This drawing doesn’t look totally accurate as some of the buildings look like they are leaning where the outline of the building isn’t straight.  Improving on these and adding in more detail would really finish of this drawing.