Drawing: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Drawing, Sketching, and Zen Doodle by Sandra Williams

Author:Sandra Williams [Williams, Sandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-04-23T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 8 – Drawing Your First landscape

If you want to start drawing landscapes, pencil drawing is great for that. I have a very old book of my uncle’s drawings that were done as far back as World War II and these are of villages in the north of England, and each is an historical record of the area which is of interest today because of the changes that have happened over the last century. If you have a particular theme that you would like to try that’s great, but if not, let’s look for some inspiration.

Buildings are always of interest because they encourage the best in your drawing skills. They allow you to play with sketching – shading – use of all your pencils and you also have the option to add color later if you so wish. The first thing that you need to consider is composition and what will be included in the image. That’s quite important when you are looking at something as vast as a landscape because there are all kinds of possibilities. If you have your cardboard cut-out, this will help you considerably because you can hold it up to the scene and decide what is relevant and what isn’t and which angle to draw your picture from.

Sketching the main points of your picture is the first step just as in other drawings. This means outlining the shapes that you see, the fields, the buildings, and the trees. At this stage, your landscape doesn’t have a lot of atmosphere because it will all be about proportions rather than anything else. Make sure that you take a photo of what it is that you are capturing as the light will change on a constant basis outside and that can really mess up the picture, especially if the light was perfect when you first saw that sight.

Good things to practice on in the way of landscape pictures are things such as buildings because these help you to learn all about perspective and shadows. They also help you to learn about scale.

Trees and shrubbery

When you are drawing these, it is tempting to draw too much detail. You know in your mind what a tree is supposed to look like, but when you are sketching frequently what you see isn’t that detailed. Learn to draw what you see as opposed to what your mind thinks of when you think of a tree. For example, the branches and leaves may not be that detailed at all and may be drawn with very little detail.

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