Victorian Architecture

 25/11/20 - Week 8

This week I produced 4 different sketches of Victorian architecture in London. This was another challenging week, though I am quite happy with some of the outcomes of this week.

I experimented with the use of both pencil and pen, throughout the course of this task I began to find it much easier to use pen rather than pencil as it had the ability to easily create bold, structured marks that was definitely needed when studying gothic revival. It is a very intricate style so I found myself implying a lot of detail to which the pen made this a lot easier and justifiable in the piece since it would create a high amount of contrast very quickly.

This is much different to the pencil in this case. The way I work with pencil involves going over detail a lot to make it much darker with each pass, and obviously this was just not possible with the level of detail that is included in this style.

I first started with the palace of Westminster which is probably my most detailed piece here, though the shadow provides a lot of contrast it is definitely a lot lighter and perhaps more realistic in comparison to the other 3 drawings. I found the more contrast in the piece and the more shadow the more interesting the piece looked, especially with this architectural movement. I did test this style that I was creating with the pen in the lower pencil piece but it just didn't have the stylistic flare that the pen was giving me.

The two pen pieces are not too different in the way I created them, but the lower one being the second one I drew definitely looks a lot better stylistically to the first. This is because I used only one direction of line for the shadows in the lower piece whereas in the first I was using multiple. The piece looked a lot neater this way, and I just felt that it again was matching the architecture itself a lot.