For my next drawing session, our focus was to look at the interiors of the Creative Arts building. I worked upon drawing with different marker pens to make the look more abstract, instead of going for a realistic approach - I'm not confident at drawing realistically so aimed to go for something that was a bit more unique and different.
For the first drawing, I opted to layer up marker colours to try and gain the look of the sun going down and the clouds getting darker, as well as the tinted windows; so I opted for different colours of marker pen and used two complimentary colours so they would fade together better. This was good practice for me as I've never used the markers before. The studies took longer than I thought to begin with as I had to layer a lot of them up with sharpies, fineliners and add colour and detail to them.
For the second drawing, my idea was to use marker pens that were contrasting (yellow and pink) to make the piece more abstract. I prefer this to the first drawing because of the minimalist use of colour I've used - it was much more of a challenge for me in terms of perspective and trying to create a vanishing point, as well as the smaller detail in the lights.
Layer adjustments to painting
My final drawing was done as a digital painting - I selected the best photo I'd taken from my phone and used this as a base to create something slightly abstract. By layering gradient maps and inverting colours, the effect in the painting was something similar to my original drawings - I didn't like the idea of making something accurate, as this is not what I'm best at doing.
Although not as neat as I'd intended it to do, I prefer this as this creates a more abstract feel which is originally what I intended to do. I kept the detail to a minimal and focused more on the colour, creating a certain mood about the building which was captured better in this in comparison to my drawings. I definitely feel my advantages lie more in painting with my tablet (a Wacom Intuos) my aim was to use two colours opposite each other on the colour scale: I opted for a red and then mint green to highlight, creating some depth to the piece. This was one of my favourite things to do in the process drawings as it was something a lot more familiar to me, and, in my opinion, something of much better quality.
I would definitely look at using the same or a similar technique for my next drawing session; allowing me to further practice my digital skills and create something more similar to what I originally intended - it's far easier for me to create something of better quality, although I also want to practice my observational drawing skills so intend to keep drawing as well.
