The Victoria quarter is my third and final place that I visited. I wanted to draw the intricate details and the classy design of the whole place, giving it a feeling of another world because of the design of the shops which reminded me of art nouveau style crossed with the victorian age.
That being said the amount of detail that went into these scenes is ridiculous, arches, loops, rails, bars, window frames, all the little bricks in the higher floors it was insane. Everything had a natural curve to it while being set in a man made environment, it made it seem like it was both interior and exterior as well as natural and unnatural.
A lot of the drawings had a one point perspective to them as the place is made up of multiple hall ways, with a lot of detail in them. I mostly chose to do really quick and rough sketches for the area to get the layout quickly, also a few of the drawings feel similar as they are also looking down a hall way.
I spent the most time on this drawing as i wanted to get a good technical drawing from it. This meant working into details with a really fine mechanical pencil and figuring out where my horizon line and vanishing point would be. Looking at it now i think there should of been two vanishing points, the second would be for the door on the right.
While its a rough observational drawing i really like the layout of this one. It has a nice symmetrical look to it and feels quite classy and while to doesn't have much perspective it works quite nicely.
This was done using an ink brush but i used a ruler to get the straight lines levy quite a nice effect, giving it some nice strong black lines. I chose to be simple with the details so i could get across the shapes and dimensions in the scene.
The most tackiest looking thing in the whole Victoria Quarter a massive VQ statue in the entrance way. It works nicely as a centre piece with the sides moving towards the vanishing point in the background. The graphite helped me to get my drawing done really quickly because like the woods i was starting to get really quite cold, especially as i was standing in then entrance way.
By this point my hands were frozen. In the centre of Victoria Quarter there is sometimes a white grand piano which gives the place an even more ethereal presence as it looks so mystical surrounded by these weaving arches and architecture.
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