Pittville pumproom

It was a glorious day and warmth from the sun encouraged us out to Pittville pump rooms. The task was to draw sketches of the building, and make visual notes in order to recreate the whole building when we returned to the studio. The brightness of the sun casted a strong shadow, making definition easier. 

 I first drew a detailed drawing, but realised that the symmetry of the building was out... I drew a second geometric sketch which made it easier to see how many pillars and windows there where, and how simple the shape of the building actually was.

 These two are from the back of the building, a sweeping curve juts out and made keeping perspective difficult.

The final product of the sketches. The first two really helped as they were from the front. The smaller sketches helped me with the details on the facade and statues. This is about A2 in size, I used ink wash and am very pleased with it! 

From this drawing, I felt that the dramatic pillars would be good exaggerated, and added with a high angle, would make a good murder mystery poster of something similar. The first image, with the high angle, I realised wasn't 'included' enough as a viewer...what's going on? So I changed the second to a low angle, which I developed into the below images.  

Here I feel more involved in the dramatic event of a murder happening on the grounds of the pump room. I feel like the pillars represent teeth or horror and a person being spat out of the building.