Week 4 - Landscape - Impressionist Speed-Sketching of High Detail images

5 minute sketch, Graphite stick

 

This sketch was on on top of the Chesham building roof, this was done as a quick perspective sketch to practise conveying lots of detail in a impressionistic way. This sketch shows the following:

 

Positives:

• The perspective is interesting because the horizon line and the placement of the buildings lead the eye down through the buildings and focus on the darker silhouette in the distance.
• It has a very impressionistic style and has a wide amount of quick mark making techniques to create an impression of detail in the buildings and in the sky.
• The wide arrays of tonal value give the sketch more dynamism and help to distinguish between layers of detail from the buildings and horizon line and also light and tones of grey in the sky.

 

Negatives:

• Lack of detail in the landscape in need of more impressionistic marks to create the sense of more buildings and city scape.
• Greater implied lines would help to draw the eye easier around this sketch and also direct the eye to the tower in the distance as a focal point.

 

30 minute sketch, Charcoal

 

This sketch was done from a window on the top floor of the Chesham building, this is a much longer and complete impressionistic landscape sketch. I used charcoal in a number of different ways to create this sketch. This sketch shows the following:

 

Positives:

•  A combination of quick, hard, bold lines and soft shading and smudging helps to create a very impressionistic sketch with lots of tonal values and implied detail.
•  High placed horizon line creates the sense of cityscape stretching into the distance and creating an interesting perspective.
•  The change in tonal values from lighter at the foreground and darker in the background, and also the focal point of the dark chimneys leads the eye through the sketch and to the horizon.
• Layers of detail can be seen in the foreground with larger, lighter lines, midground darker closer lines and background sketchy impression lines.

Negatives:

• Perspective of some buildings are off and lines need to be straightened and corrected.
• A different impressionistic style for the sky would be more effctive in bringing out the tonal values and shape of cloud.
• A use of neater more controled lines would be more effective.