Week 3: Landscape - Handling Complex Information

A 60 minute drawing done with black and red-brown conté crayons. This difference in tonal value immediately makes the drawing more vibrant. The browns and lack of black in the far distance make it obvious that that the drawing is less interested in that area and wants to focus more in the central area, especially on the block of flats slightly to the left.

This block of flats makes for a focal point in the image, as it connects both the background and the midground, and is detailed to a higher level than other areas of the image. This is helped further by the connected marks which make up the sky, which have been made with a lot of energy, hinting at greater depth beyond the horizon and also above the top of the picture.

Around this block of flats there are other interesting marks, such as the quick strokes of brown and black to the left, hinting at trees and more natural forms. This is contrasted directly below where there are much darker tonal values as well as more placed and blocked out areas, showing the beginning of the architecture. This architecture is well-grounded by some of the strong vertical brown lines around it, especially that directly left of the block of flats. The marks in all of the image are very energetic and quite impressionistic, in some cases blocking out quick shapes, in other cases some strong lines which both help to handle the large amount of information in the image.