Urban Sketch Day 13 - 7/9/11

Day 13 location was at The Deep - the worlds only submarium (whatever that is!) a terrific tourist attraction here in Hull...

The first drawing of the day - a view from the observatory cafe on the top floor  - entry is actually free to this area which is a bonus, but unfortunately we didn't have access out on to the balcony area because of the wind conditions...

View down to the cafe serving area - after this we all ventured down to buy our tickets to enter The Deep itself...

...a bit of shenanigans with the entry card which kind of turned into a bit of a game of top trumps with some of the other guys ha ha!

Various fish studies - the Piranha was actually drawn later on in the day though...

Left - figure studies of a family checking out some of the interactive displays on the main walk way

Right - Sketch of Gareth Sleightholme drawing the jellyfish

L to R - Jellyfish studies, Mudskipper studies (these were tricky little blighters to draw!), Study of the coral reef

Various fish studies from the upper floor tank...

Figures in front of one of the viewing areas

Various studies of some of the larger fish and sharks

At 2pm a couple of divers started doing some cleaning duties which was a great opportunity for some underwater figure drawing!

This guy had what seemed to be basically a vacuum cleaner that he was cleaning the floor with...

Whilst this female diver had the task of scrubbing fish excrement of the coral  - nice!

A very quick sketch of a large interactive display area

My final drawing of the day was of this viewing window into the main tank...

...and here's a quick digital colour up of the previous sketch

So all in all a pretty good day of drawing with some challenging but really interesting subjects!

...and on a slighty related note here's a personal image I created a while back - wish I'd actually visited The Deep before creating it for better reference... I may come back and add to this now though so all's good :)