Urban Sketch Day 6 - 13/8/11

Day 6 location was at the top of Whitefriargate, Hull City centre. Another  day when unfortunately I had to disappear in the afternoon. A relatively small turn out for this one, and there was a bit of rain on the day too...

View down Whitefriargate

Figure studies 1

Figure studies 2

Urban Sketch Day 5 - 10/8/11

Day 5 location was in and around the Trinity Market area of Hull:

Drawing one - Trinity Market interior view from the Cafe - ballpoint

Drawing two - Trinity church exterior view - ballpoint

Sketchpage 3 - cafe figure studies - ballpoint

Drawing four - Cafe figures - ballpoint

Drawing five - Old man at the Cafe - ballpoint

Urban Sketch Day 4 - 6/8/11

Day 4 location was outside St. Stephens shopping centre Hull city centre in the morning to concentrate on figure drawing, and then on to the Olde White Harte pub in the afternoon for a bit of interior drawing...

Sketch page 1 - fineliner

Sketch page 2 - fineliner

Sketch page 3 - ballpoint

Sketch page 4 - ballpoint

Sketch page 5 - ballpoint

View of Ye Olde White Harte beer garden - Ballpoint and brush markers

Ye Olde White Harte interior view - ballpoint

Urban Sketch Day 3 - 3/8/11

Day 3 location was at the Bankside area of Hull - an absolute scorcher of a day and wound up getting rather sunburned...

Drawing one - British Extraction Co. building - watercolour

Drawing two - British Extraction Co. Building view two - Ballpoint + Digital shade

Drawing two - British Extraction Co. Building view two - Ballpoint + Digital colour

Drawing three - Swing Bridge - watercolour

Urban Sketch Day 2 - 30/7/11

Day two location was along the riverside area behind the museums quarter in Hull - unfortunately I wasn't actually able to attend the whole day myself but I did go and do some more drawing in my own time to make up for it...

Drawing one - View of High Street - ballpoint

Drawing two - View of Clarence flour mill building - ballpoint

Drawing two - Digitally coloured version

Drawing three - View of moored boats - drawn the next day - ballpoint

Drawing four - I actually drew this last year but have included it here as it relates to this series of drawings - view of the Arctic Corsair boat drawn from the Transport museum - Ballpoint

Drawing four - digitally colored

UPDATE TIME!!! Urban Sketch Day 1 - 27/7/11

Well it's been a while since I last bothered with this, but seeing as I've filled another sketchbook this summer I figured I'd showcase some of the work so far. Off the back of the sketchbook I did last year (see the previous post...), and after discussions with a fellow illustrator and teaching colleague of mine (Gareth Sleightholme - check out his excellent blog here - as you can see he's much better at the whole blogging malarkey than I am...) we decided to set up an urban drawing group in our home city of Hull.

And the results so far have been great, we've set up a Facebook group (gallery here) and we've been meeting up every Wednesday and Saturday over the summer period, a total of twelve days of drawing so far. We've had a range of people attending the sessions, quite a few ex students as well as some new faces too and it's been a lot of fun :)

(Probably gonna have to break this up into separate posts...)

Sketch Day 1 - Hull City centre/Marina 27/7/11

First drawing of the day - behind Hull transport interchange - ballpoint and watercolour

Second drawing - View down Humber Street - ballpoint

Drawing three - Green Bricks pub facade - ballpoint

Drawing four - Some of the attending sketchers - Brush markers (digitally recoloured)

Drawings of Hull

A few select drawings from a sketchbook of drawings I've been making around Hull city centre recently...