Study Task 2- Environmental Storytelling- Abandoned Building

Abandoned Building

As my second location i have chosen the abandoned building on the outside of Leeds. As i was drawing this building i realised just how hard it was going to be because of its shapes and the detail needed to make it look realistic. 

Here i have done thumbnails so i can see the dynamic shapes and angles that this building has and from the positions i have decided to draw it from.

I have tried to draw angles from someone almost walking right round the building as both ends looked different and there were loads of angles i wanted to include.

For this i am using a fine liner as i love this medium as it lets me get so much detail in such small spaces, this is why this building will be very detailed overall, because of the medium.

This was my first sketch which you can see as i was a lot more timid with how dark i wanted the building to be. I did a close shot as it shows the structure up close whereas the rest are from a wider view.

This let me show how rundown the building was as the metal has become rusted and the stones are dirty so it was good to show this when i was closer up, drawing each element closer.

This was when i walked further back to show how the detail and dirt are harder to see. This was also so i could show how the circular bace looks as the entrance and how it all curves around that point.

After realising how dark i was able to go it was at this point the rest looked more confident with being bold whereas the first one i held back. This was a learning point as in the future, i will try to approach the drawings with more of a view of how the colour could be bolder and show more detail.

This was a very different view of the front that shows how long the building is and the angle is is at. I really liked doing this sketch as i could really show the angles and perspectives within the structure.

For this piece the hardest part was drawing enough detail to show what was happening because if you do too much you can lose the overall effect but i think because of the curved front structure, this added enough for me to do less for the background, as the main focus was the foreground.

This angle looks straight at the building so you cant see behind it which adds a very good effect as the front looks flat but the curved structure still looks curved so it looks like its coming forward, this is also helped by the building next to that one as it shows how big the building is but also the street looks far away and therefore not flat.

This is the final image i have done that doesn't particularly look right because of the weird shapes of the building but i still like how the curved front still stands out and comes forward so much. If i had done the very left as a straight line it would have extended the side to make it look correct but from where i was, the angle seemed to create an illusion that looks odd overall.

I really loved using this medium as you can get so much detail even if it does take longer than pencil. I will use this medium in the future to create bold lines and dark contrasts with the grey scratching so it can really show the environments in full detail.