Today I fancied stepping away from the practicing and learning which I've been doing lately; instead I took myself down to the Museum of London to see what I could find. Being lunchtime the museum was pretty busy and locating a quiet spot felt rather challenging - never mind whether I could find something to sit on! Fortunately tucked away behind the Victorian Walk I stumbled across a baker's cart all on its lonesome:
This felt like a decent object to study given its ellipses, lines and rectangles; tailor-made for practice. So I sat myself down and started by sketching out the overall form of the cart with a 2H pencil. Without worrying about trying to achieve perfection I felt quite happy experimenting with different lines and angles to see which felt about right.
After about 45 minutes (speed is not my priority here!) I figured that I could go over these guidelines in pen and come up with a reasonable depiction. What was useful about this is that while all of my pencil lines criss-crossed I could choose to avoid filling in lines which were otherwise hidden (such as parts of the cart behind the wheel) when going over in pen. Also I managed to pick out the details which seemed most informative whilst ignoring those which added little:
Obviously the front wheel isn't quite as side-on as it should be but I think that the rest of the cart has come out well. The proportions aren't bad, it looks like a cart that you could pick up and the necessary details are present and correct. With this kind of result I can see myself heading back to the museum one of these days.