Sketching Now: Buildings Class homework

Hi everyone, 

Thanks so much for all the lovely and caring comments 

left on last Sunday's blog post. 

My back pain is finally starting to ease a little, thank goodness!

No creative lettering to show you this week as
I have been busy with a different online class over the past week, 

namely Liz Steel's Sketching Now Buildings course. 

I took this course to learn simple techniques that will help me 

on location when sketching buildings etc.

You can watch a video covering the course details HERE.

Below is some of my homework from the course so far.
These were all done from photo reference.
Each week, there are two homework lessons,
one that is indoors,
and one that is outdoors.
I've yet to catch up on the outdoors one.

As wonky as the results can be, 

I have so much fun with contour sketching. 

It's where you take a single line for a walk  

without lifting the pen from the paper.

It helps you to get a feel for the structure/object.

Sketching only negative shapes - in this case, the sky - with a brush and watercolour

Sketching the positive shapes with brush and watercolour

The previous exercises gave me a better feel for the structure. 

Here, I laid down the foundation lines only with a watercolour pencil

then followed up with ink. 

Then a splash of watercolour to bring it altogether. 

I am loving Liz's class!

I'm linking up with Sunday Sketches this week
To see sketches from other members, click HERE.