Going out into the City..

To kick of my first level 5 project of the year, I chose to under go the theme of 'Urban Influences' this a very broad title and I really felt that I could gain the most from it, as I am already bursting with ideas.The first thing that I decided to do was to go off into the city of Manchester, now my second home and take as many photographs of different buildings that I possibly could find, buildings of all different shapes and sizes, that I felt even influenced me in the very slightest, all located in different parts of the city, sometimes for a particular reason. Some buildings with a lot of history behind them where as others compltley brand new, that have just been built on historic grounds.

Each building leaking with beauty, I really enjoyed photographing these images to under go my first task of drawing exactly what I could see.

To complete this task I didnt only walk into the city, I took the bus, the tram, the train and the car so that I could photograph and draw the buildings in lots of different aspects, this was probably the most exiting part for me as I spent the whole week travelling Manchester, I got to see parts of the city that I had never seen before. 

These buildings were some of the favourite ones that I found around the city, all located in different areas, they have different meanings to what they are and why they are there and all look so very different. These three images are the key images that I will use to start of my drawing and mark making process for this unit.