Week 9: Modern Architecture- Quick Sketch

This is a 20 minute quick sketch of a balcony overlooking a large set of windows. The focus is on modern architecture and how the 'modern' materials such as glass and metal are using their characteristics to represent tonal differences when clashed with certain lighting. Throughout the drawing a sense of foreshortening and perspective is incorporated, introducing a background, middle ground and foreground.

The background is clearly the large curving windows that are held up via the large support towers. The middle-ground would contain the thin glass fencing over the edge of the balcony. As for the foreground, either the metal handle bars connected to the glass fence or the worn hardwood flooring of the balcony would class as the middle-ground if any.

Although this is a quick sketch and the main features of the observation have been included, with more time, a much better understanding of the layout of things could have been achieved, but also further established a background, middle-ground and foreground, with the inclusion of buildings, trees, roads on the outside of the window. The slight shading of the glass fence only slightly helps signify this.