Urban Sketch Day 12 - 3/9/11

Day 12 took place whilst the Hull Freedom Festival was going on, so not too many drawings from myself as I was too distracted by everything else going on during the day. We started at the Mirazozo Luminarium in Queens Gardens, which was quite incredible inside, before moving on to the Fruit Market area where some friends of ours were doing some live painting....

The Mirazozo Luminarium exterior... (descriptive quote by Luke Kendall!)

...and the interior

Sketch page 1 - live artists at work

Sketch page 2 - live artists at work

Sketch page 3 - Fruit figures 1

Sketch page 4 - Fruit figures 2

Sketch page 5 - Motley Crew!

Urban Sketch Day 11 - 31/8/11

The location for day 11 was Walton Street Market/Car boot sale in the morning and then we wound up (the few that were there on the day) in West park in the afternoon.

Drawing one - Market/car boot vendor van one - I really liked the way the van owner had his feet sticking out the side!

Market/car boot vendor van two (didn't complete this drawing due to a rather grumpy stall holder telling us we couldn't sit at his tables as they was for customers only - and I'd bought a drink and sandwich off him - miserable git...)

Mobile butchers - this guy was great - so entertaining listening to his patter...

After the market started closing down we wandered over to West Park, about 5 minutes walk away, and spent some time at the aviary - the birds were really challenging but fun to try to capture. Really want to go back and tackle these again with colour some time...

Around the corner from the aviary was a small scale steam train, this was a quick study of one of the guys who was working on one of the trains

Figure studies - train enthusiasts

Spotted this ice-cream van which I just had to draw. Whilst doing so the girl who was working it saw me and came over and asked if she could take a picture of the drawing on her phone once I'd finished so she could show the owner. Result - free ice-cream :D

Final drawing of the day was of this 'kung-fu' wallaby (earlier on he'd been picking up and swinging sticks like a ninja warrior  ha ha!)

Urban Sketch Day 10 - 27/8/11

Day 10 location was held at Trinity Square - unfortunately I wasn't able to make the morning as I was working on some pieces of work to submit for a local drawing competition (see below). To top it off, even though it had been a really bright and sunny day I seemed to bring the bad weather with me and rain called a stop to the day...

A1 drawing work in progress - rework of previous panoramic drawings

Finished piece - Ballpoint, fineliners and aqua brush (will try and get a better picture up at some point...)

My only actual drawing from the day :|

Urban Sketch Day 9 - 24/8/11

Day 9 location was held once again at Pearson Park:

Some of the other sketchers in action

L - Sketchers Lok Ian Leong and Luke Kendall. R - Ian drawing

Princes Avenue view - I drew this the day before - unfortunately it started raining so I called it a day. The location is a couple of minutes walk from the park which is why I've included it here...

First drawing of the day - Trying out a something new - combining coloured fineliners, watercolour pencils and aqua brushes...

Pearson Park Queen Statue - this was a popular subject amongst the sketchers

Ducks - quack quack!

In the afternoon, Quentin Budworth, one of the other sketchers asked if I would demonstrate how I actually go about making a drawing of a complex subject such as a building, so here are a few snaps of some of the stages of a drawing. The process I tend to use is to block out fairly rapidly the main shapes and geometry of what I'm observing, and then gradually refine and tighten up elements of the drawing in stages. This was actually a really interesting experience as I've never really demonstrated my own process to such an extent, even whilst teaching, and this may be something to explore further perhaps by filming a drawing session in the future...

And that's another sketchbook filled :) Time to start a new one :D

Urban Sketch Day 8 - 20/8/11

Day 8 location began outside the Old Zoological pub on Princes Avenue in the morning, and then relocated to Pearson Park in the afternoon:

First drawing of the day - Scooters outside the sandwich shop opposite Old Zoological

View of the tree and shops opposite Old Zoological

The 'Folly' in Pearson Park

Pearson Park figure studies

An old drawing of Pearson park from last year that I figured I would include in this set

Urban Sketch Day 7 - 17/8/11

Day 7 location was outside the old Edwin Davis Bond St Warehouse and then in the afternoon we had permission (thanks to Gareth Sleightholme) to draw inside the Dram Shop pub on the corner of George Street. The morning although quite sunny was actually quite cold in the shade, so retiring to the pub was a welcome aspect to the day. There was a really good turn out for this one too :)

Drawing one - Edwin Davis Bond Street warehouse

Drawing two - Dramshop bar interior

Drawing three - Sketchers and punters inside Dramshop. The three sketchers from l to r  are Gareth Sleightholme, Luke Kendall and Shay Hulbert

Dramshop customer figure studies

Drawing four - Luke Kendall sketching

Urban Sketch Day 6.5 - 15/8/11

This wasn't actually one of our scheduled days, but a day when I got out on my own to do some drawing...

Cafe Nero/Maritime museum (need to go back and finish this one at some point...) - I was conscious of the fact I was getting bogged down with this one so the next three drawings were done very rapidly instead...

Queen Victoria Square panorama 1

Queen Victoria Square panorama 2

Queen Victoria Square panorama 3

Digital stitch of the the three panaroma drawings - More on this image later...