Drawing... a review on Du Cerceau

I wanted to try out a style that wasn't really me, to see if i would enjoy it and if i could do it. Also I decided too try out architectural drawing as its something I've not done for this unit and since our architecture unit in first year which i enjoyed but didn't do this style of work. This style hopefully will help me to add more marks for an area in detail and keep the mark making simple and smooth as i'm not really that style i have found looking through my sketchbook. I found Jacques Du Cerceau's drawing quite bold and i really like the detail and precision but the keep of a simpleness to it. Also in this style you have to get everything in the right place and in the right proportion or it will just go wonky and go wrong.This will help me in the observation and the keeping to the truth in a way, making sure everything is in its place.

This is my initial go at part of one of his drawings, i decided to start at the bottom floor door as i could go up and out from here,also realized that you have to start small as there is so much to put into the drawing and the drawing just seems to take over the page, just shows you how either large the paper is or how small the drawing with all that detail.Think as well some arts are just, off there place and not going in the right direction.

This was my second try but decided to have a go at making the do or smaller but keep up the level of detail, so could try and reduce the size of the overall image. Think the perspective here is quite good, need to work on the ellipses though as some of them don't seem to go in the right direction. Tip go quite graphic and dark with shading, so keep the shadows  bending out really quick, to get that graphic look and keep things the way in which  Du Cerceau has it.

After successfully shrinking the size of the building i decided to stick to the  part of the building closest to  the  foreground, as its quite detailed i wont be compromising by sticking too one area also it gives me all the different kinds of techniques that Du Cerceau uses in his drawings. I fell that the top part of the drawing went really wonky as you can see from the roof also that i must of made either the columns to big or the width of the building too small as it doesn't have the right amount of space up there. Also its going at an angle. Think I've got a problem with keeping things vertical and at right angles when drawing need to be aware of this in future! Think the shading here is in the spirit of Du Cerceau it was actually very difficult to keep the shading to the bare minimum as I wanted to add more in. NEED TO KEEP IT TO THE NECESSARY AREAS (the darkest areas of shadow)

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This one i has much better proportions but its going  off into a weird angle ass you can see at the top. I think as well that the shading is more graphic as i tried to make sure that the shadows were more graphic. It could be wider though  as you can tell that this one has become thinner as the top half with the columns have become too squished. Need to improve on the angle of the drawing though, seem to really be able to tell that they are wonky.

I dont have the rest of the images for this type on this computer so the rest will come, hopefully on Tuesday...

This is the Added bit done on Tuesday... i'm on target :)
There was only one more drawing to look at so i wasn't as bad as i thought.

 This one i feel is much better i have got all the shadows going in the right direction.. :) and it seems to have went less wonky than the rest, was precautious when i was drawing the building. Its also sort of evened out abit more which is good as the last one was getting abit tall and thin for my liking. I really like the sharpness of the shaows and how its rather simplified from what would be reality, or what would become reality.

Doing these experiments of Du Cercau's you realise that e was trying to get in as muchabout the form then of the design of the bricks and whatever, and was about the features of the building just putting the necessities down when it came to shading, shows which areas would be darkened and which are curved, but you get no shadows really from the other parts of the building, so it isn't in place on the ground yet. also i never knew how hard it could be to get this down, to as best as i could. And getting everything at right angles and get them as accurate as possible is really hard. You do have to make sure you've got a sharp/hard pencil so you get the clean lines anyway. Also Annie make sure when you draw that you do everything at the same angle!

Thanks for reading :)
Annie x