Three Temple Place drawings

This is a series of three drawings I did at the Two Temple Place, where I wanted to focus on the positioning of the figures in the drawings and the darker tones within the illustrations. The three drawing are based from three illustrations from the same display within the structure.

 

Agnes Stringer, The King Goes to the Post, 1908

 

This is the first of the three drawings I did, where I wanted to put the focus of the hole drawing on the king, where I wanted to try and show to the last detail his positioning, what he was dressed like the dark tones on the figure and the objects he had in his position, I also included his shadow in the drawing. As a result I did not included all the fairy's from the original illustration because they were overlapping the king, so I choose to leave a few out so the fully body of the king is shown. I also wanted to draw the structure that was around him in good detail with a good shadow effect.

 

I like the drawing because I believe the darker tones have been shown clearly in the drawing and the position of the king is very similar to that from the original illustration, but again I fell I let myself down with the head shape and the figures face.    

 

Thomas Rowlandson, Yawning, early nineteenth century

 

Here for the second drawing I wanted the create an image showing the body position of the man yawning on the chair, also trying to add good detail from the man's clothing I like this drawing because I believe the man and chair fit in well together with there poisoning like from the original illustration, but I feel I needed to draw some sections of the chair with better detail and with the man's clothing. 

   

Harry Furniss, Home Rule, early twentieth century

 

For the third drawing I wanted to focus on developing a good shading effect as well as the poisoning of the figure with the way the figure is stood. I like the drawing because I believe the figures standing position has transferred well to my hand drawn image as well as the shading effect from the original image like the figures shadow, but I needed to draw the figures shoes with better detail.    

 

The images from the display were most often adapted for print from original drawings or paintings and this wall presents a selection from over 500 such originals collected by James Hardcastle.

 

As well as works by contemporary illustrators like H.M Brock and Cyrus Cuneo, the collection features pieces by important eighteenth century artist and cartoonist like William Blake and Thomas Rowlandson as well as work by Victorian illustrators Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne) and George Cruikshank, both best known for illustration of the works of Charles .