How to Draw A Mountain Lake Scene in Charcoal

Name: How to Draw A Mountain Lake Scene in Charcoal
Rating: 3.8 (6 reviews)

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Created byKevin McCain

Last updated 11/2021

English

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What you'll learn

Landscape Drawing with Charcoal

Course content

4 sections • 23 lectures • 7h 17m total length

Welcome to the Class!0:17
Recommended Drawing Skills0:19
Develop recommended drawing skills for beginning to advanced students, emphasizing familiarity with drawing and charcoal, and start the training adventure with practical guidance.
How to Make This Class Work for You0:58
Learn to use this class by drawing along in real time with me, with full-length videos, pausing as needed, and executing each assignment to build your thinking and drawing skills.
List of Recommended Materials0:13
Basic Techniques For using Charcoal37:34
Discover basic charcoal techniques using vine and compressed charcoal, Conte pencils, blending tools, and erasers to build depth in landscape drawings through layering.

Let's Create the Line Drawing!0:29
Creating the Line Drawing
You can use one of 3 ways to create the contour drawing or line drawing for our image. I would prefer you create the drawing by hand but if you need to I also teach how to trace or grid the image. Let's get started!
Transferring the Drawing By Tracing22:59
Explore tracing, gridding, and hand drawing methods to lay out mountain lake scenes in charcoal, using hinge setups and quick, general shapes over detail.
Transferring the Drawing By Gridding38:49
Learn how to transfer a mountain lake scene with a one-to-one grid, using gridding as a flexible guide to establish landmarks, proportions, and shapes while preserving creativity in charcoal drawing.
Creating with Drawing By Hand49:15

Let's Start Adding Values0:12
Learn to start adding value with charcoal to a mountain lake scene, building depth and contrast as you develop the drawing.
Drawing The Lake Part 119:56
Learn to craft a charcoal landscape of a backlit lake scene, using depth, value contrast, and simplified shapes to separate foreground, middle ground, and background.
Drawing The Lake Part 220:06
Mountain Lake Part 327:10
Mountain Lake Part 423:58
Explore observing surrounding values and simplifying complex landscape shapes in charcoal, emphasizing value relationships, thinking over copying, and balancing traditional drawing skills with digital tools.
Drawing A High Mountain Lake Part 523:56
Develop control of the drawing instrument through hard work and practice, mastering values, contrast, color, and composition to render a high mountain lake scene in charcoal.
Drawing High Mountain Lake Part 621:38
Focus on value and shape to capture the mountain lake scene in charcoal. Observe relationships and edges, comparing foreground and lake values while practicing with deliberate effort.
High Mountain Lake Part 724:51
Master the high mountain lake scene in charcoal by balancing light and dark values, preserving soft edges, and using value relationships to separate snow, rock, and trees.
High Mountain Lake Part 823:41
Develop a finished charcoal mountain lake scene by building values, refining trees, grass textures, and foreground edges, while preserving life and randomness in every mark.
High Mountain Lake Part 925:55
High Mountain Lake Part 1022:30
Discover charcoal techniques for a mountain lake scene, constructing irregular, overlapping shapes, managing value contrasts, textures, and composition to form grass, foliage, and water.
High Mountain Lake Part 1126:24
Create the mountain lake charcoal scene by laying in values, refining the trees and reflections, and emphasizing subtle contrasts and edge details to bring the composition to life.
High Mountain Lake Part 1225:51
Learn to render a mountain lake scene in charcoal with expert edge control, value contrast, and subtle water reflections, using archival watercolor to anchor the colors and careful observation.

Requirements

Basic Understanding Drawing using Lines, Proportions and Values

Description

How to Draw a Mountain Lake Scene is designed to help students learn the foundational ideas of landscape drawing with charcoal. We study the approaches and concepts that will help your drawing of landscapes look natural as we create a drawing of a high mountain lake in the Sawtooth Mountains!

This a great course for anyone who needs to improve their understanding of landscape drawing. Beginning, intermediate, and even advanced students will find a little something to help their drawing improve. We discuss the nuances of creating atmospheric depth and perspective as we draw this scene of an alpine in the high mountains.

I share with you the tips and insights I have learned drawing and painting the landscape, while creating this wonderful scene. We will use drawing approaches to help you improve both quickly and efficiently and the best part by the end of the class you will have created a powerful drawing with charcoal.

The lectures are filmed in real time so you can enjoy seeing the drawing progress from the beginning to the end. Drawing along with the videos will help improve your drawing faster. Learning to draw comes through practice. More you practice the better you become! So join me and let's start drawing today!!

Skills that are Taught

Using Charcoal
Drawing Trees
Drawing Mountains
Drawing Grasses
Drawing Water
Identifying Shapes
Designing Shapes
Identifying Proportion
Rendering Form
Rendering of Textures
Value Relationships
Defining Edges

Who this course is for:

Beginning Intermediate, Intermediate and Advanced Drawing Students

How to Draw A Mountain Lake Scene in Charcoal

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Course content

Introduction5 lectures • 39min

Creating the Contour Drawing4 lectures • 1hr 52min

Adding the Values on the Drawing13 lectures • 4hr 46min

Congratulations! You Made it!1 lecture • 1min

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