Pen and a bit of coloured pencil.
For my first sketch, I chose a view with a little wooden bridge as the focus point, with dark trees framing it.
I like this composition, not so keen on the execution, too many meaningless lines, it all looks a bit of a mess. If I had used fewer lines, the ones I would have used, would have ended up having to say more.
Watercolour pencil.
This has the same problem as the one before.
With quick sketches I don't really have time to start dealing with complex variations in tone, I can indicate roughly darks and lights, but this just ends up looking like a not very good drawing taking a long time, which it wasn't, it needs to look like a quick drawing, its pointless trying to make a sketch look like a finished work of art.
Conté and pen.
This one is a bit freer, but I wish I hadn't put pen in the background and just saved it for the foreground, to get depth, as it looks a bit flat.
Fountain pen.
I changed technique on this drawing, I very much like the view, the farm buildings on the hill form a pleasing cluster, and the very tall trees on the left create an interesting horizon-line.
Not sure I got the building to the right very well, they don't seem to work with the rest of the buildings.
Watercolour wash and then watercolour pencil.
I like this one, especially the foliage in around the bottom of the tree. But I wish I had positioned the tree further to the left and darked the tree and fence, so it framed the view beyond.
I also wish I had worked more on the landscape in the background.
(I know the course work said only four sketches, but I saw this tree and liked the look of it.)
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