First Life Drawing Session: Exterior

In the first week of process and production, all of group A was tasked with going out into Huddersfield town and drawing and documenting the city, with a set of locations and targets to aim for, using any and all materials we saw fit.

People and Places:

This illustration was created with a much greater emphasis on colour, rather than the structure of the line work, with the lines themselves often being sloppy and distorted by the bleeding colour, almost rending those lines useless in defining the boundaries of the subjects.
There is almost an element of perspective, with the field of view forced upwards in a plaza, with the paper cranes existing in their own, undefined dimension.

These pieces were created by quickly illustrating people as they walked by on a busy high-street, trying to capture their mannerisms and their expressions as quickly as possible before they moved, on translucent paper, before laying them all over a backdrop of where they'd been seen.
The contrasting colours help create a sense of energy between the static background and the people moving in front of it, as well as the technique itself resembling something of a hand-rendered long exposure.
Overall, I think this style of illustration is most reflected in the futurist work that was occurring at the turn of the 19th century, like Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" (pictured below)

Skylines:

Linedrawing, featuring perspective:

This piece was created on a simple, blue piece of tissue paper that was lying around in the studio, mostly because of its length, and because it was a clear day and I figured the light blue would make drawing the sky much easier.
The illustration itself is a perspective piece taken from directly central of a main road, intending to both capture the style of the buildings, as well as the sheer scale that this road had to offer.
The piece ended up working; after drawing the buildings I added a distant landscape in the extreme background, as well as shading with markers (for better or for worse).
This was later cropped and shaded further with the dodge and burn functions, creating the final piece.

Type in context

This last piece was made with two separate fine-liners, much like the motion piece above, in order to capture an element of contrast between two subjects; namely the metal and material structure of the phone booth, and all the added elements around it, typographical and otherwise.
It started as a simple line-drawing, with the two colour distinction of the BT logo, to help it stand out, before I noticed and decided to add all the other added elements and imperfections present on the booth, leading to something slightly more abstract.