The next place I visited was a place I have passed on the train so many times I couldn't even begin to count, but I have never actually stopped off and had a look around there. I really liked Hebden Bridge, and found it had a real archaic feel to it with all the little houses and villages, and interesting pop up shops. There was also a lot of greenery, but it was such a nice place to visit and I think would have been a lot nice if the sun was shining. I intended for my medium within this area, to be pen, pencil and watercolour, and I think I have a good selection of drawings that demonstrate this.
I again, did a few thumbnails, but there is one drawing I actually did while I was there, so I didn't plan it, and I still think it turned out nice which I was surprised about since I didn't plan on drawing anything on the spot!
Again, I started off with an illustration style that I am not the most confident in, because I really like how it can look, and it isn't that time consuming, plus it was the first place I went to and was able to draw it on the spot. This time however, unlike the other similar style drawing I did for The Trafford Centre, I went ahead and added some detail, because I thought it would just add to the image. And I think it did, if I hadn't have added that detail, I feel like I wouldn't have been able to capture the historical feel to the place, through the brick detailing and thatched houses, etc.
The next image I drew I think turned out really well and looks effective. I really wanted to use my coloured fine liners for one of the observational drawings, but I didn't anticipate to use just one in combination with coloured pencils. I started off drawing one of the windows in red fine liner, and then used a red crayon also to lightly shade the area and give it some depth. And I really like the result of this image. The door of the actual building which is named 'The Traders Club' is red, as well as the window curtains and the logo, so I thought why not just do the whole thing in red seen as how that is the most visible thing when you look at the building. This is perhaps one of my favourite pieces out of all them and I am glad I experimented with a technique I have never done before.
This next drawing I did as my friend and I took a shortcut to the actual town centre and bypassed a bunch of shacks and houses. This is something I have seen passing on the train so I really wanted a closer look and to draw it. Again I opted for pen, but with even MORE detail, and I found this was one of the best line drawing from this study task that I came out with. This particular shack was surrounded by trees and grass, so was pretty much desolated, therefore was really interesting to draw. I partially made up some of the detailing to make it look more simplistic, and also more like an illustration. But more so, because I didn't take a picture and my thumbnail didn't have detail except for a few notes.
After those drawings, they didn't take me very long, but I did have a few trial and errors where I had to throw some out and start again. So i was getting quite frustrated with just pen and pencil crayon. Although the end results are really satisfying, it was taking me a few trials to get them. The red 'Traders Club' building was an exception though. Therefore I went and had ago with drawing on the towns building which you see when you walk straight down the centre, and then shading it will watercolour. I found with the particular paper I was using, didn't take well to watercolours very well, but I didn't have any specific paper for that so I didn't go crazy with the watercolours, I did it quite slowly. I think the bricks took me the longest time because I wanted to get them as symmetrical and organised as I possibly could, and in the end I do like them. I feel like I shouldn't have used pen for the window panes and ledges because they stand out way too much from the rest, but other than that I think it looks okay.
And then finally I returned back to colour because playing around with colours are one of my favourite things to do. I took a really quaint shop that I saw and ended up drawing that, from no specific angle, just head on and I came out with this. The shop is originally a mint green colour, but I don't have that shade and I didn't want to mix green and blue because I knew I wanted the blue for my windows so I stuck with green but followed the shadows and ended up with this. I love the green and blue bits of the piece, but it isn't the most exciting area of Hebden Bridge.
Overall I feel like I looked at lots of different areas of Hebden Bridge, from fancy places to not so fancy places, and I experimented once again with different mediums. I also switched from horizontal to portrait quite a lot during this area, and I am leaning towards landscape a lot more, which is helping me think cinematically.
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