Exercise 1 - Sketchbook of townscape drawings

The problem here is that there is so much choice I don't know what to draw. My only limitations that its too cold (or I'm too pathetic) to sit outside, so it has to be something I can draw from inside, and my car is my most convenient studio.
I ended up in the car park of a park I've know since I was a child. There is a grand old cricket pavilion which was refurbished some time in the 1990's but is starting to look a little shabby again.

I started with the sunken doorway, then an overview. It was cold and grey and the light was very flat, no shadows to speak of. There are some nice decorative tiles that run around the building between the ground floor and the second floor, and decorative ironwork on the side of the stands.

I became interested in the view through the windows looking at the decorative ironwork that supports the roof.
At home I tried to draw big and bold, but my lines curve when I draw so large.

This is charcoal, conte, Aquarelle, sepia ink and white oil pastel. I don't like it because the lines are too curvy so I went back to A4 sized blue paper.

This is pencil, conte and Aquarelle. I've lost the detail of the interior ironwork but I like the door. Unintentionally this is very similar to the work of Peter Rush who is an Australian artist I admire. He draws on the inside of cereal boxes, though his compositions more interesting and his drawings are bolder. Reassuringly I note that his lines aren't super straight either!