Project: Architectural illustration; Exercise: Architectural illustration

Exercise: Architectural illustration

After reading this exercise I went to the Bishop's Stortford to have a good look of the buildings and their surroundings. I did not know which one I was going to draw; however I knew I will focus on an old building that is surrounded by new one.  While I was walking I passed an old house which is the Registered Office of this town allocated very close to new buildings. I took a couple off pictures and did some quick sketches then went home to work bit more on this exercise.

I do know I struggled with perspective in the past therefore I do want to make this exercise more carefully. I will use a rural to make the lines straight as these drawing demands it. 

sketch one

I picked this sketch as an idea for the illustration. I have to make it looks tidy and neat therefore I am going to use the light box to trace the most important lines.  I am also going to draw it with the rural as I mentioned it before. Let's do it.  

   

sketch two

sketch three

 

drawing with more details  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am happy with the look so far.  This is a good base to scan and work on with the Photoshop.  My idea is to use some grey texture to the background and gradually reveal the contrast between the grey new buildings and white old house.

 

 

 

drawing with a rural 

 

 

This is my illustration in progress.  I have used small square paper painted with different grey colours for my background. . I am going to leave it for today knowing to come back later. Maybe this is the finished illustration already? Who knows? I started to make a colour white statement on an old building.  Maybe I should leave it as it is as i remember the comment from my tutor report of my Assignment 1 that the illustration was good already at the beginning of my work. I should know when to stop. The only thing I may do it with this illustrations is to crop it from the bottom of the illustration. I think the composition will look better without the empty space at the bottom of the page.