Thursday, 28 April 2016

Landscape Drawing - National Media Museum


This piece used a 4H, 3H, 2H and a 1B pencil. It took roughly 30 minutes to sketch the outlines and 1 hour to shade.

The shading of this composition shows no colour as the objective was to shade using pencils to create a contrast between each of the perspectives. The darker parts are closer to the foreground, whilst the lighter parts are part of the middle ground and background. This is to help show depth and scene arrangement. The hard outlines of the scene help give us an idea of how the room structure was like, whereas the softer shades help show darkness and help create shadow effects.
The arrangement of the walls help exaggerate the effect of depth as it was very easy to show where each of the walls are. This including the shading helps give a perfect example of depth as the composition of the piece is arranged in a way that the rule of thirds is applied as well. With the darker wall being the foreground, the more lighter wall being the middle ground and the lightest wall being the background, helps create the important effect of depth.
Finally, there is also a nice contrast between the dark areas and the light areas. The white ‘cut-outs’ on the walls help contrast the colour of the wall it is on.

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