Draw a Landscape
Landscapes are nature's way of showing its true beauty. With a few simple strokes of the pencil, you can capture any landscape and take it home on a piece of paper. I drew this at a park near my town, you could get a scene like this any place with a body of water, or some trees. Let's begin!
Contents
Steps
A Basic Landscape
- Make an outline of the landscape you have in mind. Here, you can draw an outline of a big boulder and a fence on the opposite side. You don’t have to worry about the details yet.
- Add some trees. Just a rough outline you can make by drawing lightly.
- You can make the view more natural by adding some shrubs randomly.
- Start adding a few specific details to your outline, like drawing people or some pebbled pathway. Add a little texture to your drawing by drawing short strokes on some darkened areas.
- Refine your drawing by darkening desired lines and getting rid of unwanted ones.
- Color your drawing.
A Sketched Landscape
- Find a land scape to draw, start by simply looking at the picture and seeing what you notice first. In this picture, the tunnel and the river are first to meet the eye, so draw them lightly first, but just the outline, no details yet.
- Start to add some details, like the rocks in and along the river, and the trees on the grass. To shade in the rocks, and make the river look more smooth use your finger and smooth it out, or just do the pencil work neatly so you don't have to get your fingers dirty.
- Finish of your landscape color in the tunnel black,make the stones for the bridge on top, make the rocks and river a bit darker, and generally touch up where it needs it.
Adding Details
- Add trees to the background. Most landscapes have vegetation of some sort, particularly trees and bushes. You can make your landscape look much more realistic by including a few different types of trees. Depending on the location of your landscape, the type of trees you add will be different. Deciduous (leafy) trees and conifer (pine) trees are the most common.
- Make your trees different heights and shapes to add interest.
- Trees that are further away should be smaller, while trees in the foreground will be larger.
- Add details to the sky. The sky is sometimes the last thing to be taken care of in a landscape drawing. However, it often contains a lot of detail and can greatly improve a landscape drawing. If you're working with a cloudy sky, add variations of shades of gray to give the sky depth. A sunny sky will be lighter on one side and darker on the other. You can also add celestial bodies - the sun, moon, and stars - to your sky for greater detail.
- Avoid drawing clichéd images of cotton-ball clouds and a crescent shaped moon. Do your best to draw the objects in the sky true to life.
- Add in creatures and animals. Although not all landscapes have bears or horses, most have some living creatures of some sort. Try adding in small things - like animals and bugs - to your landscape. Larger creatures will probably be the centerpiece, but you can still add them if you'd like. Try to add hidden animals and creatures, such as birds in trees and fish under the water, instead of putting multiple large creatures in your landscape.
- Don't overwhelm your landscape with animals, or it will begin to look like a zoo.
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