Week 3 - Light and shadow

This drawing took about an hour, it was done with charcoal at around 17:00. The object is some kind of a stone sculpture towards the middle of Horton park.
As the day was really cloudy, there were no obvious highlight areas or dark shadows, so most of the shadows were actually due to the tight gaps and small spaces. Still, it appears that more light was coming from in front of me so there were some shadows on my side of the object. Most of the shadows are between the branches right after they separate and also all along the branches, right before they "sink" into the ground. I decided to redo the outlines so that the object may look more solid and hard.
The drawing does not show much perspective since the object was fairly small and I was a bit further away from it.

Week 2 - Composition

These are my "3 quick sketches" which took about 3 and a half hours all together. I've tried to keep the subject of the drawings the same and only experiment with the composition. Every drawing was drawn from a different position, the top-left one is actually from a higher one and on the bottom-left one i am looking a slightly upwards.
Although while drawing I found out that I had several edges merging and some shapes are being cut out i still like the overall composition of all the drawings. I didn't aim at puting the focal point in one of the rule-of-thirds points, instead I decided to place the more detailed areas in these places.
Although I didn't aim at getting a position that would give me opportunities to use/show perspective, it turned out that the building on the left would show a fairly good bit of it.
I have to confess I did cheat a little bit on these ones by holding the pencil the wrong way, but it was only on the small details. :)

Week 1 - Perspective

This drawing took me 3.5 - 4 hours. It was done from sitting on a chair at one of the corners of the room looking almost towards the opposite one so i could get more diagonal lines and thus stronger perspective effect without putting the corner of the room in the middle of the drawing. I've been aiming to use only 2-point perspective as the scene is small. I've used perspective in the desk, the bed and the drawer, going outside and towards the right end of the window. The other axis is going to the far left, it should be visible by the desk and the wall beneath the window.