10 Things drawn around Leeds

4. HELD IN YOUR HAND / 5. WALKING

Whilst at the Royal Armories I looked for items being held in hands, I drew from two models of men and although it's cartoony I'm quite proud I managed to draw hands that resemble hands. Again drawing from reference made a real difference here. 

I also found that having to sketch walking people with items in their hands really helped me to not worry about the anatomy of the hand itself and more about what it was holding it and how the hand was holding it. They were originally drawn in 2H pencil, when I got home I then coloured them in. I'm counting this one as walking as well as held in hand just because I struggled to actually draw walking people and it was much easier to focus on one smaller point of them. 

6. ARCHITECTURAL

I definetly enjoyed the architectural section the most, I stuck to fineliner because I didn't want to worry over it being too perfect (if I had chosen pencil I would have definetly taken longer to draw one building). Although they aren't the most accurate they have the important components of the building in them and for this task I felt like that's what was needed. 

7. FROM ABOVE 

Most of my from above drawing were of hands (which went into my held in hand section). Being sat high up meant I got a good vantage point to see what people were holding in their hands, if I had drawn every person there would have been a lot more iPhones drawn that day, although I am playing with the idea of going out and drawing again just to see whether people really do just only hold phones on their hands. As well as the hands I drew a girl from above as she was walking away (although the perspective was hard to get right). 

The only thing I got a good above view of was the girl drawing next to me standing on leaves.