What i saw was fantastic and exactly what i was hoping for with balconies and spiral staircases along with huge book cases. As well as modern books they had books dating all the way back to the 1400s that are written only in Latin. the whole place oozes with history and life giving it an amazing air and feel to be in.
I decided to try and do a perspective drawing from above initially walking along the balcony trying to find a good angle however i started to draw from an awkward angle, looking to the side of me so my perspective was off from the very beginning, something i had to work on. I wanted to try and draw the tops of the book cases as they are something that is not normally seen by people. to give a different view of the world.
As i felt it wasn't working well i had a look at another section of the library and decided to try a drawing that was fairly symmetrical in layout to try and consider perspective. The single point perspective looks nice but is a complete mess with zero sense of direction, i couldn't visualise where the vanishing point was because it came to a flat wall and i couldn't comprehend where it could be. I liked how i was able to see both the floor and the ceiling showing the enclosed corridor like room.
I have been working with pencil for these drawings so far as i wanted to try and do accurate (to a certain extent) observational drawings. But the image constantly becomes warped and twisted, which i could see in this image of the spiral stair case. its supposed top be a shot from below but it looks more like a level shot with the spiral dipping and losing a sense of depth which is another aspect of this brief i need to consider, depth, the foreground, mid ground and back ground. the whole image looks a feels a little squashed as if i tried to fit everything in when it would of been impossible.
While its not really easy to tell i tried to use graphite here but it just looks like a darker pencil. the perspective is still all over the place but i didn't mind too much here as it still looks appealing in the layout of the image with the tight small hall way being framed by the arch way although it looks very poor from a technical and details stand point.
Another different media, ink brush i tried to work with some sense of perspective here but more focused on getting the view from the balcony down. once again the spiral stair case went up again meaning i got the perspective wrong on its spiral and as i got tot the edges of the right side the illustration became more rough and less directed.
Terrible, terrible, terrible. Tried to do fore ground by looking through the bars on the balcony but this resulted in a very poor attempt at perspective as seen on the stair case again… (-_-) I'm gonna get it eventually. But the steps became really steep and the bars in the fore ground look fat and not angled as the small squares at the bottom of the bars were all over the place with zero consistency on their perspective.
Again i tried to draw perspective from above and it worked well on the lights but everything else became confused i kept mixing the book cases and the windows up making really off perspective on these sections. if that hadn't happen i think this would of had the best perspective out of all my drawings if i had gotten this right.
This was drawn when i went back to the library for photographs. I had a better grasp on perspective then and so tried to draw the front desk. unfortunately i didn't consider how long the section in front of me should of been so while the perspective is correct the size and placement of the desk is incorrect. I tried to include people at this point but they looked too large for the world i had drawn.
This was the final drawing i did during my times at the library and i wanted to really try to get all the little details. This was a very time consuming drawing as i wanted to get the perspective down as well. For the most part it looked alright but when i had gotten to the left side i realised my mistake. The section at the top was actually angled down slightly causing for the railing on the balcony on the left to become warped, and the decent perspective to become lost. On the details side while the lines were a little wobbly in places and the shapes inconsistent i was happy to be able to add so much detail into an observational drawing, something i had never really tried as much before, as, for me, observational drawings had always been about getting the idea of the image and not an accurate depiction, but i like these more detailed ones as well.
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