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⌈ Secret Post #3243 ⌋

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Artists plz

[(Anonymous)]

Any tips for newbie landscape drawings? My only instruction from my teacher was "Do your best." :(

Re: Artists plz

[(Anonymous)]

Take your time planning a good composition. Seriously. There's nothing worse than drawing or painting for ages and realizing that your subject/composition sucks.

Don't be afraid to use colors, even if your landscape is just different hues of brown or green.

Re: Artists plz

[(Anonymous)]

Shadows are a function of the color of the material minus the color of the light.

Yeah, I don't know.

Re: Artists plz

[(Anonymous)]

I'm assuming this is in pencil.

-Don't be afraid to have high contrasting values. Your intial sketch should be light so you can erase mistakes, but your completed drawing should have four to five distinct values.
-Things in the background are less detailed and inversely the foreground has more detail.
-Your lightsource almost always comes from the background too.
-Find some landscape drawings you like, identify what you like about them, and then quickly sketch them.

Really the best way to learn to draw is just by doing it though. Pointers will only go you so far.

Re: Artists plz

[(Anonymous)]

Watch some Bob Ross?

Re: Artists plz

[(Anonymous)]

sketch some thumbnail value drawings before you start, draw the landscape in black and white to assure it has enough contrast before you add the colors. but know that a good drawing doesn't always need a range of contrast from white to black. high contrast is good for drama, low contrast is good for serenity.

if you're copying a photo or reference, try to look for unexpected colors in what you're seeing, so your tree isn't just one shade of green, a darker shade of green, and a lighter shade of green. a green tree might have purple in its shadows or oranges in its lights. you can always come back from pushing the crazy colors too far, but it's very difficult to push colors once you've settled into a habit of choosing boring, "safe" colors.

everything in a landscape is made up of shapes, work from largest to smallest. a tree for example, is overall a giant circle and a trunk– inside of that circle are bunches of leaves, and inside those bunches are leaves and thin branches. don't get hung up on details until you've worked from biggest to smallest.

learn about "atmospheric perspective" and try to notice it in the images you're copying.

use a scrap paper and see how many different textures you can make with your pencil/paint. texture representation is important in landscape.

while you're out and about, try to notice things around you that might be part of a landscape drawing, and think about how you would approach painting them. if you see a plant, take note of how it grows– is it in bunches? could you draw it with a few strokes of a paintbrush? what would be the easiest and simplest way to draw its leaf shape or its flowers? what colors would you use? etc

Re: Artists plz

[(Anonymous)]

Remember foreground, middle ground and background. This is important to practice when creating the illusion of space.

Composition is something that can be learned when practiced. Using a viewfinder, or even your fingers to make a rectangle, you can try to find a good, artistic composition that is balanced. It seems kind of corny but that's how I was trained in school. After a while you'll just naturally start to create better and better compositions.