My drawings as I progress through this course.

14 Mar.2025 - Made a start with the perspective exercise. I had to make quite a few construction lines to make it look like the objects were actually on the table :-).

16 Mar.2025 - Eastacion de Francia: I found this a very hard exercise. So many lines and perspective challenges. So much erasing and re-drawing things began to smudge. I had a spider web of construction lines and had to shade some parts early to keep track. The pillar on the left is a bit strange, but I think it will be difficult to correct it at this point without making the smudging worse. Edited: Electric eraser to the rescue. Re-posted the picture.

 

21 Mar 2025: Estacion de Francia main hallway:

Wow. This was a challenge with the wide angle view and perspective of curved surfaces. At one point I had so many lines in different directions - it could have been a cubist drawing :-).
I spent some time on session 11 to work a framework on which to build everything else. Then I realized that the clock plaster panel is in a recess and further back than the marble facade. I drew a study to work out where everything was in the right corner. I found the floor tiles quite difficult and made a number of alignment mistakes on this.
I'm pleased with how this came out in the end.
'15 minute Quick sketches' - to follow.

 

 

 

23 Mar 2025: 'Quick' Sketches.
What fun. Where did the time go? ha ha.

For the color one I budgeted 45 minutes: 15 minutes to get the framework, 15 minutes detail and 15 minutes shading and coloring. My timing went completely off and took 30 mins to do the framework :-), so this took about 55 minutes total. I felt I could have spent longer on the shading and coloring.

For the graphite - even quicker - one I did a bit better, (apart from  having insufficient room for the star :-) ). 23 minutes.

Interesting exercise for myself to see how I inadvertently distorted the pictures and a few things were in the 'wrong' place.

Edit 24 March 2025:
I wasn't very happy with my quick sketch yesterday. I felt that I had tried to get everything in during a short time. I might have felt happier if I simplified the picture (on a smaller piece of paper) and concentrated on adding contrast to a few of the details I found interesting.
Clock, suspended ball, star octagon on the floor, arched windows and lit window at the back.
Leaving the rest as simple outlines with less contrast. I felt happier with the updated version - below. Going forward (vol 3,4 etc)I might try a simple quick sketch first as a study for the project drawings before doing the more detailed ones.

Updated quick sketch - about 20 mins on A5 sketchbook.

Looking forward to and moving onto Vol.3. now.