Loughborough station

In this task, we were off to Loughborough to draw the old station. I caught the train to their more modern station, and then walked across. For more information on the Central station, here is their website: http://www.gcrailway.co.uk/

The old station was very pretty and was decorated in an old fashioned style. However, there was also another part of the station, were the trains were restored, which I found more interesting. It was less clean, more textured and more industrial. I thought this would make a better painting.

I drew quite lot thumbnails, unlike Abbey Park, as I wanted to do lots of quick little sketches. This was to work for the final piece. I used inks and pens as I like the effect and it’s good for quickly blocking in values.

I started off painting my final piece, but then decided the composition was not very strong. I’m going to post up more info soon, as the computer breakage has put me a little behind on visual design work. I’ve got an old computer on loan from my home, but my tablet won’t work because it doesn’t have the correct drivers installed. I should have this sorted out soon. Also I will start coming to the films and writing about them once this is fixed, I just feel a bit too pressed for time to make them these last weeks.