To be honest I have been trying to speed through these last few ‘townscape’ exercises, because I have a deadline to meet and want to give myself plenty of time to complete my assignment. This meant that when I approached this exercise, I really was not in the mood and felt like I had no creative bones in my body. The result, is therefore quite poor.
I used conte pencils – sanguine, dark brown and black. I thought, despite my lack of enthusiasm, that I was doing ok initially and tried to concentrate on the main areas of shade and form in the image rather than minute details. However, when I had finished it looked very rushed (which it was), and much of it is out of proportion. I will have to complete this again, but think it would be best done as part of my assignment to help give me better focus.
Deborah McAulay 