Landscape Drawing - Hebden Bridge

This piece took 2 hours to draw and colour. Equipment used was pencils to sketch and colouring pencils for colour.

The scene composition is very clear and easy to understand as we can see how the piece is setup. The hard lines indicate solidity the entire scene is made out of hard materials meaning none are organic or natural except the trees which have a basic colour to show. The aim of this piece was to approach this piece using a colour method that is not commonly used. Colouring pencils helped create the scenes colour with a mix of warm and cool colours which help create depth and composition.

The shadowing of the scene is very easy to spot as under the bridge, the light is very difficult to reach which is shown by the harsh use of the colour black. The shadows casted by the bridge are then shown on the water which is also given a harsh dark colour as the water travels under the bridge. The lighting was very direct meaning there were no clouds to diffuse the light which would in event create soft shadows, so this meant all of the shadows in the scene were hard with edges without any falloff.

The rule of thirds is used here as the bridge is in our foreground, the main building in the middle ground and the other smaller buildings including the forest in the background.