Julie Edgson: Lowestoft Drawing Trip

I recently went on a drawing trip to Lowestoft.

It is required on the second year of my course to do one solid week of location drawing.

The rest of my class went to Seville, Spain, however I am not keen on planes (which didn't help) and I didn't feel quite strong enough in myself to take on this task just yet. Which is a shame, as I do not want to be holding myself back from all the fantastic opportunities I have. It was a hard decision to make, but I feel that I made the right choice in the end, doing something I felt comfortable with.

My trip to Lowestoft was with two other class mates (their reasons for not going was not being able to afford it) so I had people to spend my time with and to help motivate me and give feedback of each others work, which was great.

One of my class mates partner lives in Lowestoft, so we were lucky enough to be shown around by him to ensure we didn't get lost and to find all the best places to draw.

As well as going to Lowestoft, we traveled just along the coast to Great Yarmouth for a couple of days to broaden our drawings.

We were extremely fortunate with the weather as we went away during the September 'Heat wave'.

It felt like Summer as it was so hot and sunny and there we no clouds in the sky!

The week went extremely quickly and we came home feeling absolutely exhausted.

Below I have scanned in some of the drawings I did over the week.

I used three sketchbooks, one long thin, one square and one large Moleskine.

The drawings are not perfect as the idea was to get down as much information about the place in as little time as possible.

Enjoy.