After doing rough sketches of my scene from different angles and finding one I liked, I then took one of the sketches and did some experimenting with ink before working on my A2 piece. To help show depth, via aerial perspective, I made the wind turbines fade into the distance and made the mountain in the background very light.

In my final piece I decided to have the old windmill smudged and fading away to emphasize the feeling of the old being replaced by new technology. I feel that I made the mountain in the final too dark and should have made it softer.

I decided to have long grass stalks in the foreground and run right across the page to create low and exclude the viewer from the piece.

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The first statue I decided to draw was one I found in Venice in the garden of an art museum. The statue itself was black and rough but reflected a lot of light. I struggled a bit with the area of its face where its eyes would have been, I felt I could not get the shape quite right but it was fun to draw this strange creature.

As a bit of a pallet cleanser I decided to draw another statue that I found in Greece. I did it with ink and water which I have never used for a human figure before so it was an interesting challenge.

I enjoyed this exercise more than the previous townscape exercises although I do still need to work on my shading when working with pen. I feel that my preliminary sketch held enough information to do my final sketch. I enjoy making townscapes that are not as symmetrical and formal where all the buildings look the same. I enjoy buildings that have their own character.

I however did not do a very good job at portraying a foreground middle ground and background. In that way my drawing ended up looking very flat.

for this exercise I decided to focus on an old fish drying warehouse close to where I live. I love the old and tattered look of the building and it brings memories of my childhood living in a fishing village by a river. I liked the look of the paint pealing off of the door and walls.

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In the first picture I used watercolours. I made the sky and the furthest mountain too close a colour I think and perhaps should have left the sky white.

In the second picture I used tea and charcoal. I decided to have the closest trees light and have them get darker as they go further back and so made an effect of a campfire and night which I quite like.

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In this exercise I found it difficult to depict values of light, I think I was focusing too much on the perspective of the scene. I feel I should have done the drawing on a larger piece of paper since there were a lt of small details that I struggled to get in.

I have got prior experience with doing technical drawings and parallel perspective and so i quite enjoyed this exercise. Using a ruler helped a lot but I am happy to see that my original lines were not too far off from the vanishing point.

For this exercise I did two drawings of the same view, one which I could go over in pen to show perspective as well as the fore- mid- and background. A large portion of the scene is taken up by my background.

I focused on making the mountains and some of the trees that were further away very simplistic and light to help portray distance.