Exercise (2) Study of a Townscape Using Line. Project (5) Townscapes.

This is in Cambridge, down by the river, opposite Magdalene College, a row of cafes and the like.

Watercolour washes with pen.

This was fun to sketch, 

I don't usually use both pages of a sketchbook in a panoramic manner, (its something I might do more of.) 

 Cambridge is a fun place to sketch, all the bicycles, buildings, and interesting people.

Some of the people are better than others, I like the way the persons sitting eating to the right turned out and the man, leaning, talking to the other selling ice-cream on the far left, seems to have a bit of character, 

the rest didn't work that well. 

Redy brownish pencil and fountain pen with wash. 

I chose to veer to the right side of my sketchbook drawing, as I thought it the one with more interest and worth developing into my line drawing.

I do like the way the trees get fainter as the recede into the distance, and the little punter on the river seems to work well.

I enjoyed trying to find different sorts of marks to create the leaves on the trees when just using line. 

I am aware that there should probably be more line, this being an exercise in line, and I probably shouldn't have relied so heavily on the wash to describing my tones and shadows.   

I also realized the man to the left, standing consulting a public map, was far too tall and was mucking-up the perspective, 

so, in the reworked drawing below, having tried to shrink him, he has become a little too dark though (owing to me having to wet the ink of the fountain pen to try and erase the larger version of the figure.)

Redy brownish pencil and fountain pen with wash.