Landscape Sketching, Tricks and Hints

Name: Landscape Sketching, Tricks and Hints
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Pleasant way to study drawing

Created byEvgeniy Stasenko

Last updated 7/2018

English

What you'll learn

It helps to build up your confidence in drawing and gives new techniques for sketching.

Course content

4 sections • 10 lectures • 57m total length

Preparation to sketching2:28
Traditionally in the process of drawing all the measuring have to be done with a pencil. But it requires some skills, it is very inconvenient for beginners.

So, I offer an instruction on manufacturing of little measuring tool for sketching. This tool saves lot of your time and helps to avoid unnecessary work and trouble.
Placement, measurement, outline4:56
We will make a preparatory sketch with all the measuring and schematics work using our little measuring tool for sketching. For our first sketch we use very simple shaped building in frontal position. We choose position which allows us to avoid any kind of linear perspective in our sketch.
We do sketch: when to stop?6:20
We will make our sketch using the preparatory work done before. On this step we'll try to avoid measuring and give more job to our eyes. Here starts artistic part of our sketch, we do not imitate nature - we create our own version of landscape. I'll show you how to use shading in sketch to give to our drawing some depth and volume.

We will discover how deep into detailing we should go and how and when we decide it is ‘enough’ for our sketch.

The line language6:13
This lecture is dedicated to the line, more specifically to the line language. I'll explain you what the line language is, how to use it practically and I'll draw some kind of landscapes to give an example how it works.
Preparatory part of the line sketch4:34
Before to draw sketch using the line language we have to do preparatory part. It is similar to preparatory part of sketch with a building, but this time we'll be drawing landscape with the boat at the pier.
Using the line language in sketch5:18
We use the line language to describe the objects in our sketch accentuating their obvious properties. How I said, in this language instead of words we use something similar to hieroglyphs. And we are free to choose the most laconic way to describe our objects not trying to be photographically precise. We give to a viewer general idea of the objects in the image in a symbolic manner.

Types of linear perspective6:32
There are more than two types of perspective schemes. But for beginning one-point perspective and two-point perspective give us enough freedom in sketching to achieve a good result in big variety of landscapes. And, knowing these schemes, on location we can choose correct position to draw the sketch.
One-point perspective scheme in landscape10:21
In one-point perspective scheme our line of sight is directed in parallel with lines of depth. It is very convenient scheme because here is only one melting point and it is placed inside of the sketch. But this type of the linear perspective has its flaw. It looks sometimes not very realistic and streets are not allways organized like a chessboard.
Two-point perspective scheme in landscape6:25
In two-point perspective scheme our line of sight is directed diagonally relatively to the bases of our boxes. And we have two melting points: one from the left, another from the right, each one for one set of the parallel lines. Only lines of the vertical set are vertical. This type of the linear perspective is more realistic, but it has its flaw too. Usually both melting points are far away outside of our sketchpage, but I know one trick which helps us to deal with this problem.

Adding human figures and cars to landscape4:43
Speaking of human figure it is one of the most complicated objects to draw. But in landscape human figure is more like decoration. And size of human figure in our sketch is so small that we can draw it with couple of lines. Drawing cars in sketch of small size is easy task too if we draw them in the same manner as human figures with couple of lines only. So, let's try an easy way to draw cars and human figures in sketch.

Requirements

You don’t need any experience in drawing. And a minimum drawing set: sketchbook, pencils and eraser is enough.

Description

This course is for beginners in drawing. When you start to draw by yourself, main question is: what to start with? how to start?

I will help you to understand it and concentrate on what is really necessary to make a good landscape sketch. I’ll tell you about some rules of measurement, composition, schematics and linear perspective.

Even my students with zero o close to zero drawing skills create lovely looking sketches starting from the first lesson. The secret is in step-by-step instructions, live demonstration and some tricks and hints explained in the process.

Who this course is for:

This course is intended for beginners in sketching. But, if you have some drawing experience, you can find some of my tips useful too.

Landscape Sketching, Tricks and Hints

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First approach, first sketch3 lectures • 14min

Sketching without shading, language of lines3 lectures • 16min

Linear perspective in landscape3 lectures • 23min

Addendum1 lecture • 5min

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