It is hard to imagine that two centuries ago Russian artists did not depict the beauty of Russian nature. Aivazovsky, Shishkin, Savrasov, Levitan and many other outstanding artists showed everyone how beautiful our nature is. Today we will learn how to draw a landscape with a pencil in stages.
Autumn, autumn, the forest has cooled down and dropped its leaves...
How to draw a landscape with a pencil step by step for beginners? This question is asked by many people who have decided to try their hand at fine arts. Looking at the paintings of outstanding world artists, we think: what kind of daub is depicted on them? But in fact - this is a masterpiece that costs not one million dollars or is stored in the Louvre and the Hermitage.
You can depict any landscapes - urban, park, rural, autumn, winter, beach. But it is the beauty of autumn nature that is especially popular. How much can be conveyed by playing with paints or shadows! When it's pouring rain outside the window, the birds have flown away to warmer climes, and nature is hibernating, it's time to pick up a pencil and start painting. We will start by learning how to draw an autumn landscape with a pencil step by step. Materials needed:
- simple pencil;
- paper.
- How to draw a landscape with a pencil in stages? Autumn is a wonderful time, eyes charm. In order to convey its beauty, we will use only a pencil. By adjusting the force of pressure on the rod, we will create a genuine and natural picture.
- First, let's draw a straight line of the horizon, which will be located at the top of the sheet.
- The bottom line should be beveled towards the lower right corner of the sheet. This will be a reference point.
- Photo 1
- In the foreground we will depict trees. Let's draw two winding lines.
- Let's connect fantasy and draw an original landscape against the background of the river.
- On the left side, we mark the river bank with winding lines.
- Similarly, draw winding lines on the right side.
- Photo 4
- Any landscape must be depicted believably. So that our trees do not hang in the air, we will draw a bend, which will be a mound.
- It is important to pay attention to even the smallest details, so a couple of dried grass bushes will not hurt.
- In autumn, nature radically changes its appearance. There are no more leaves on the trees. With thicker lines, we will draw the trunks, branches and the visible part of the rhizome of the trees.
- You can change the color and thickness of the lines by pressing. But it is better to use pencils of different softness.
- A gusty cold wind tries to pick off the last leaves from the branches of trees, but some still managed to hold on. In any order on the tree, draw a few leaves.
- Our autumn landscape will be against the background of the river. Reed thickets will add credibility to the picture. Drawing them is very simple - a stem and a filled oblong oval.
- The drawing should be three-dimensional, so we will shade the strokes on the ground.
- Play with contrasts. Shadows should have a smooth transition.
- There is a forest on the opposite bank of the river. We will not draw it clearly, but we will shade and blend it.
- Autumn is the time when nature falls asleep. We need to emphasize this in our landscape. With chaotic strokes of a pencil, we will draw a measured flow of the river.
- Connect fantasy. This is your creation, and it depends only on you how it will be: cheerful or gloomy, believable or parodic.
- Here you also need to play on contrasts, so we will blend the pencil over the entire surface of the river.
- Leaden clouds hung over the earth. Let's draw clouds in the form of different circles, make them dark and heavy with the help of hatching and shading.
- We know from school that many birds go to winter in warm countries. Let's complement our landscape with a crane wedge.
- To make the landscape bright and perfect, draw a web among the branches. An inhabitant of the forest lurked inside - a small spider.
- Let's take an eraser and highlight some parts of the landscape.
- Such glare will emphasize the autumn mood.
One, two, three, we use strokes
How to draw a landscape with a pencil in stages for children? There is nothing easier than hatching. If the child still cannot decide on the shape and place the figures correctly on a piece of paper, help him draw an original landscape using strokes. You will need a set of pencils of varying degrees of softness.
Necessary materials:
- a set of simple pencils;
- paper;
- eraser.
Step by step description of the creative process:
Landscape is a type of fine art that depicts the primordial beauty of nature. A landscape painter has an unlimited imagination, as there are many new and surprising things in nature. A picture depicting nature can decorate a house and give a cozy mood, while the process of painting a landscape itself gives a relaxing pleasure. It seems to many that it is easy to draw a landscape picture, but they are often mistaken, because in order to draw a good picture, you need to know the basics of depicting perspective and the location of light and shade.
Tip: Before you start doing a big picture, practice making small sketches, for which A4 sheet halves will do.
How to draw a landscape with a pencil
- To draw a good picture, it is difficult to limit yourself to just one pencil, since you will need at least three: soft (B), hard (H) and medium (HB), as well as a very soft eraser. First, practice the basics of hatching, as shown in the picture:
- Thus, see how hard you need to press on the pencil in order to achieve one color or another. Also try to draw a ball and shade it using a drawing for clarity:
- This will help you learn the location of highlights and shadows. To draw a landscape, you can look out the window, go outside, or try a photo initially.
How to draw a landscape - a snow-covered Christmas tree
- Choose your favorite photo on the Internet. For clarity, we use this picture:
- First, choose the location of your Christmas tree on the sheet, estimate its size, then draw a triangle. Or, you can draw a wand (as we drew in kindergarten). In no case do not use a ruler, you need to draw lines strictly by hand. Otherwise, you will never learn to draw. Then sketch out the snow cover by making strokes from top to bottom, from a triangle or a stick (whichever you drew) with very thin lines so that they can be easily erased.
- Next, start working on more embossed forms of spruce and draw snow on the branches. Darken those parts of the branches that were left without snow cover using a soft pencil. Snow is never snow-white, so shade it a little, make it looser.
- When the Christmas tree is ready, draw a background that you like on the back. It can be snowy fields or a small village with many houses.
Important! Even if you are painting a night landscape, the shadow of the tree must be worked out.
Remember, the closer the object is, the brighter it looks, respectively, the further away, the paler the shading. Also do not forget to draw a falling shadow from the Christmas tree.
Painting a snowy landscape with watercolors
Perhaps the most difficult thing to learn to paint with watercolors is because they require a lot of water. They constantly spread, and if you accidentally make the wrong stroke, then unlike gouache, watercolor will not be able to block it. As they say in an art school, pouring plenty of tap water onto a piece of paper will help wash off excess color from paper. Remember that high-quality watercolor paints do not have white. The white shade is replaced by water.
You will need special paper (watercolor paper is very thick to the touch), paint and brushes: small, medium and large. Since watercolor is the most non-viscous paint, brushes should have elasticity. Squirrel hair brushes are best suited.
- Draw a horizon line, mark the path.
- Next paint the sky using yellow, blue and purple paint.
- Paint the trees in the distance using black, brown and green paint. First the colors, and then, when the background dries, work on the lines of the trees. Since this is the background, try to keep it pale.
- Make the foreground branches clearer.
- Draw the path with dark colors, taking into account the location of the shadows. Also mark the looseness of the snow with gray paint.
Important! Although watercolor requires a lot of water, try not to overdo it, otherwise the sheet of paper will bend.
In fact, learning to draw is not difficult enough, the main thing is to show your imagination. If you don't succeed the first time, don't worry. Not all great artists came out brilliant paintings the first time. Just enjoy the process. Even if you are just starting to draw, try to buy better paints, brushes and pencils right away, because, for example, the hairs that come out of the brush will immediately ruin your mood.
Nature is very beautiful. Each of its elements is an individuality with a unique design. Therefore, today we will try to embody it on a piece of paper. The finished picture can be placed in a frame and admire it at any time.
Necessary materials:
- colored pencils in yellow, green, blue, brown tones;
- black marker;
- regular pencil;
- paper;
- eraser.
Drawing steps:
1. Draw the horizon as a line. In the distance we will have, which we denote on the sheet in the form of triangles. Next, erase the lines between them and leave only the outline.
2. Bushes and will be visible near the mountains in the distance. We will also draw and mark them in our drawing. From the mountains there will be a long and rather wide path that will lead to a green meadow with trees. On the right side of the sheet, draw a small tree.
3. Now let's move on to the first plan and draw a large tree on the left side. It will have a wide and massive crown with a lot of branches. The amount of foliage will be small, but despite this, the tree looks larger than the mountains in the distance. Let's not forget about the small foliage in the clearing.
4. We circle each line with a marker, supplement with small details. Erase unnecessary lines with an eraser.
5. Next, go to the trunks of two trees and color them with a brown pencil.
6. Now color the foliage on the trees with a light green pencil.
7. To darken, use an emerald or dark green pencil.
8. With the same pencils, color the green meadow and the grass in our drawing.
9. Mountains are visible in the distance. We will give them a blue color, and at the foot there will be green shades. When mixing two colors, we get a very beautiful and original look.
10. We will decorate the path with a yellow pencil, and at the contour line we will walk with brown.
11. Finally, draw the sky with a light blue pencil.
12. This concludes our step-by-step drawing. On it you can see mountains, and a green lawn with a path, and trees, and a clear blue sky. Any of you, wanting to take a break from the bustle of the city, would like to be in such a wonderful place! Appreciate the world around us!
If you decide to pick up a pencil, congratulations, you are a very brave person. Because many people are terribly afraid to draw, they are even embarrassed to try: “I won’t succeed!”. Get it! There is no need to be afraid of a white sheet of paper, in extreme cases, quietly throw the sheet into the trash or burn it in a vacant lot away from prying eyes. But remember that drawing techniques can be taught to everyone, but it is more difficult to convey your emotions on paper. Therefore, if you have emotions over the edge and want to draw, do not worry that the technique is lame, this will come with time. Take and draw. In this lesson, we will try to draw a simple landscape together in stages.
So, how to draw nature with a pencil? We take a sheet of paper and pencils. Ordinary office paper is not very suitable for pencil drawing, its surface is too smooth. Take an A4 paper sheet, for example. This is enough. It would be nice to take three pencils - one is hard HB, the second is softer - 4B and the third is very soft - 8-9B. The first is used for contours and very light shading, the second and third for a soft, clear, contrasting pattern.
- We outline the path line, two large trees on the left, mountains and a distant forest. Remember that there are no perfect lines in nature. Try to feel the trees, imagine how they grew over the years, how they built up their bark day after day. Under the showers, under the summer heat, under the bitter frosts, centimeter by centimeter, the trees gained strength. There is one more thing to remember. At the bottom of the trunk, the branches are thicker and there are fewer of them; up the trunk, there are more and more branches and they are thinner. Leonardo da Vinci once deduced the formula for drawing a tree - the volume of the trunk = the sum of the volumes of the trunks of its branches. That is, if you add up all the branches, both the largest and the smallest, we get the girth of the trunk. The path also cannot be even, because it was not made by master builders from artificial materials, but by Nature. We begin to draw, according to the most important rule - from the general to the particular. Therefore, we first outline the general contours throughout the drawing, then the shadows, the structure of objects, and at the very end, the details. If you start drawing right from the details, the overall picture will crumble.
- We outline dark places and shadows. Be sure to mentally keep the "sun in your head", you must constantly remember where the light source is. Objects that are directly in front of the light source will be very dark. This is called "contrajour". One of our trees is lit only "from the back", so it looks almost black to us. The second gets a little light, which gives it volume. It is in this light at an angle that the structure of the crust is very clearly visible. It becomes convex, all cracks and roughness are visible. Don't forget that the trees in the background also have shadows. We draw the second plan more generally, because the human eye does not see details at such a distance, and the farther the object is, the more general it will look like.
- We start working on the details. The bark of a tree is very rough, rough, and it can be depicted with such “eights” or “loops”. Remember that in the shade there will be a lot of such “loops”, and closer to the light - less and they will be softer, just a hint. When you go for a walk in the park, take a closer look at the bark of trees, it can be incredibly beautiful.
- We are working on a long-range plan. We make the shadows from the trees more contrasting, but remember that the shadows should not be darker than in the foreground. Only in the foreground will there be the strongest and brightest contrast. Otherwise, the background will “climb” forward, interfere with perception and “take away” the air from the picture. Therefore, we draw the second plan more transparently. It is important to know which type of tree has which silhouette. A birch will have its own, a spruce will have a completely different one. Practice, draw the silhouettes of pine, maple and oak. This is useful so that the viewer instantly recognizes what it is from one contour. In the background, draw fir trees and try not to make them the same. Not only is it boring and uninteresting, it also does not happen in nature. In this small sketch, one spruce is closer and darker, the second is a little further and lighter. The greater the distance to the subject, the lighter it seems to us, and the more “blurred”. Never draw small details in the background. They will start arguing with objects in the foreground and the drawing will become flat. It is enough to depict the total mass, contours or hints, shadows. The rest is "finished" by the viewer's imagination.
- Again we return to the foreground and draw trees with more contrast. We make the distant tree even darker, and we will work more carefully on the tree that is closer to us. The hand should not be clamped, the brush should be moved freely and as if “fluttering” along the drawing - somewhere the line should be made rougher, somewhere easier. Practice on a piece of paper - draw one line with strong pressure, then weak, see how it becomes alive. By the way, when drawing with a simple pencil, put a sheet of clean paper under your arm so as not to smear the drawing, otherwise there will be ugly dull gray spots that you cannot erase with any eraser.
When drawing the earth, we must remember that this is not smooth asphalt, but living soil, which means that it has bumps, bulges, concavities, mounds and pits. This can be shown by the direction of the hatching - it can be at an angle, curved, short, long, thin and rough. Remember that on the ground there are not only concavities and bulges, but also a shadow from the foliage of trees.
Important! Be sure to remember the texture of each item. The bark of a tree is rough and rough, it is better to draw it with short and clear lines, grass is soft, it is better to depict it with thin strokes, trees and shrubs in the distance - with a hint, total mass, contours, uneven ground - the strokes should be repeating the shape of bulges and mounds, spruce with protruding branches - a dark silhouette.
- We draw the field. From the viewer and deeper into the drawing, the field will become more and more simplified - whether there are just grasses, or daisies, the viewer will come up with for himself. The main thing is to show that this is not bare land, it is densely overgrown with grass and looks like a soft, thick carpet. And there are already flowers, and bumblebees, and grasshoppers are found.
Now we squint and see if everything is good in terms of tonalities and composition. Doesn’t something irritate, doesn’t it “fall through”, doesn’t something that should remain secondary come to the fore? If not, keep drawing...
- We return to the foreground again and begin to work out the details. We draw branches, foliage. You don't have to draw every leaf. A person perceives the whole picture, entirely, and our brain is designed in such a way that it is enough to show a contour, a slight hint, and he mentally draws the rest. Let me remind you once again about "keep the sun in your head." Foliage also casts a shadow on the branches, remember this.
- Now be sure to sharpen the pencil so that it is sharp. We need thin and precise hatching. Let's start drawing the sky and mountains. The clouds are very light, fluffy, they are twisted by wind currents. Show their dynamics, movement with shading. You can make another option - gently shade the sky, make it darker, and leave the clouds completely white. The mountains also do not need to be drawn too sharply, they are far away, almost in a haze, the silhouette will be quite enough.
Drawing nature with a pencil is not so difficult. To do this, you need to be observant and make a lot of sketches (at the sea, in a cafe, on a walk, and anywhere). The main thing is to learn how to express your feelings and emotions. Even if you draw incorrectly from the point of view of strict technique, but with love, then, believe me, it will definitely hook any viewer. Because pure technique is dry and not particularly interesting, it is much more interesting to see the artist's attitude to what he draws, his perception of the environment as a reflection of his own inner world. Good luck, inspiration and don't be afraid to draw, everything will work out!
Drawing with paints is a very interesting and developing activity. The depiction of landscapes in different techniques instills in the artist a sense of beauty, calms and sets up positive emotions.
Landscape selection
A variety of landscapes are suitable for or watercolor.
In this article, you will learn how to paint step by step for beginners. Mountains are one of the most impressive subjects for drawing. Depicting them, you can show the contrast between high slopes and plains, sky and earth. Mountains can be both sharp and smooth, similar to a mountain range. The weather is also an important point in the drawing. Winter mountains are one of the best solutions. In such a landscape, you can “play” with light and shadow, with reflexes and different shades on snow-white snow. Buffy, yellowish, burgundy, ultramarine, turquoise shades - all this can be in the color of snow, it is only important to choose the right color scheme.
A summer landscape with mountains is also a good choice for beginners. A riot of greenery, warm shades in the grass, or cold ones in the branches of pine trees - these details are very picturesque - the author does not need to draw them. The freer and bolder the artist's hand holds the brush, the more relaxed and easier the picture will be perceived. It is important to remember that the landscape is not only nature, but also the atmosphere that we create by investing our emotions and mood.
How to start landscape?
Start any drawing with a sheet layout. Let the earth be smaller than the sky, or vice versa. Don't make these parts the same.
If these are mountains, consider which peak will be higher and which one will be lower than others. You should not draw the same mountains, even if in reality it is. Compositionally, it is better to make them different, this will bring dynamics to the drawing.
Pay attention to the objects that are in the foreground. This is what is closest to the artist. The foreground is always drawn in more detail and diligently than the background.
Landscape in gouache
There are many techniques for such an activity, how to paint a landscape with paints. Step by step for beginners, it is much easier to work with gouache than with other materials. Gouache is easy to use: it mixes with water, is easy to wash, and has no specific smell. In order to work with gouache, any brushes will do, but it is better to opt for synthetics or ponies. This technique is recommended for beginners because if you make a mistake, you can easily cover it with the next layer of paint. Moreover: the next layer, applied to the dried pigment, will not mix with the previous one. Unlike oils and acrylics, gouache can be painted more freely and not be afraid to make a mistake.
Parts of the drawing can be drawn individually or all at once. You can paint the sky and ground first, and then paint the clouds, trees, and foreground.
Tip: to work faster, apply shades to objects immediately, and do not leave "for later". It is much easier to do this in one step than to wait until the painting dries.
watercolor landscape
This technique may suit you if you are wondering how to draw a landscape with paints in stages for beginners. Watercolor in painting can be very light and fresh if you know a few rules.
- Watercolor technique is the art of working with layers. The paint is translucent, so each new layer will blend with the past.
- A minimum of errors is the motto of everyone who picks up watercolor.
- Thick paper is the key to a successful result. The special rough surface absorbs well and creates a good effect.
- leave for nearby objects. The rest should be pale, mixed with water. Watercolor should be written in a fluid way, unlike gouache, oil or acrylic.
- Brushes made from natural squirrel or pony hair are best suited for work.
In such a task, how to draw a landscape with paints in stages, there are a lot of difficulties for beginners. How to get this or that shade, how best to highlight some subject of the composition or how to arrange everything on the sheet - everyone asks these questions, and the answers to them come with experience. The best advice for anyone interested in painting is to practice more by painting the most ordinary subjects. The sooner you begin to understand that realism is achieved precisely by highlighting some elements and creating contrast, the sooner it will start to work out.
