Exercise (1) Sketchbook of Townscape Drawings. Project (5) Townscapes.

I was in York for these town sketches. 

A beautiful town, filled with some very interesting streets. 

Sepia watercolour drawn with brush.

I like sketching with a brush, 

here I used mostly line, and making sure to put in the people (as quickly as possible) as I wanted a busy look, rather then a ghost town.

Blue watercolour drawn with brush.

Using the brush here again I did this view of these buildings, I especially enjoyed the shadow cast by the building to the left, I ever so quickly put in the man sitting reading his paper.

Watercolour drawing.

I would have liked to have worked on this longer (as with all my sketches,) but it's quite fun, just having the bright yellow signs and the red bus in the background.

Pen and wash.

I don't like this one very much, the angles are all wrong, which would of been fine (indeed, most of the angles are wrong in these drawings) but the fact I colour it before trying to correct the problems, does not reflect well on my impatient character.

Whiteboard marker, felt tip pen and finliner.

This was  drawn in Cambridge, 

just outside King's College.

Pen, watercolour pencil and wash.

Back to York, 

this is a charming street with so many wonky old buildings that it I was hard put to make them look real. 

Conté and red chalk.

Conté grows on me more and more, 

I quite like this sketch, the building on the left is a bit off, but I am pleased with the red brick-ish  texture I was able to get with conté and chalk.