During the third focus week I began to learn how to draw sections on the computer using the program Illustrator.  Doing this I was able to apply what I had learnt doing the Colchester and Ostend project.

1:100 at A3 Section of proposed sand dunes in Ostend

During the second focus week we continued having drawing lessons with David.  On Monday we went to Teddington Lock.  Here we looked more in depth at how objects fit together especially going into the water, for example, the footbridges and how they are constructed. We then went on to draw large sections of the lock and we put together what we had learnt.  This was a useful session and got us to look at things in more detail which we will apply to projects. 

On Thursday we went back to the lock to finish off the large section and put in the context of the lock by drawing in the background and surroundings which also gave the section a scale.

On Monday David came in to give us a lesson on perspective drawing.  My aim for this session was to be able to draw good perspective sketches.  This is to help when I go on site visits as you get something different from sketches compared to just having photographs.   

We spent the morning in the studio going over the rules of doing perspective drawings.  We started off doing very quick perspective sketches of in a room and then we moved on to doing sketches outside. 

In the afternoon we went to Bushy Park to do perspective sketches of the chestnut avenue.  This session I found the most useful as we had one on one tutorials and David showed me where I was going wrong and where improvement needed to be made.  

On Thursday we used the measurements that we took of Chestnut Avenue, the distance between the trees, and drew a plan of the avenue.  This gave a different angle to look at the avenue we had been drawing on Monday.  David gave a quick lesson on doing axonometric drawings which we then applied to the plan of the avenue.